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Melonpoly, do games w Microsoft May Exit Gaming Business If Game Pass Subscribers off Console Don't Increase Enough by 2027

Hopefully the end up leaving, nothing positive has come from Microsoft in the gaming industry since the early 360 era.

ZephyrXero, do games w Unity to Cap Runtime Fee to 4% of Revenue Over $1M, Users Will Self-Report Figures

The games making over a million are the ones who can afford the new rates. This is so regressive. It should get more expensive as your sales go up, not down. Small devs should be charged less than big studios

JoMiran,
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

The fee is zero for games making less than $1,000,000.

ZephyrXero,

Oh did they change that too? I was just going off the “capped at 4%” part. Before you only had to exceed $200k to have to start paying

JoMiran,
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

The grammar in the article is not great.

BarterClub, do games w Microsoft May Exit Gaming Business If Game Pass Subscribers off Console Don't Increase Enough by 2027

Click bate title. Just a slide of what they think they will hit. Microsoft is not going to drop gaming when it just spent how much on studios?

kaitco,

Microsoft paid Ninja about $50 million to leave Twitch and stream solely on their Mixer platform, only to close Mixer entirely less than a year later.

They will absolutely buy up a bunch of stuff and then just close down altogether. Their market cap is in the trillions; these things don’t really matter to them in the end.

BarterClub,

True but aren’t they spending billions for Activision and Bethesda?

Much bigger than millions

Hiccup,

Activision has a money printer business in CoD, WoW, hearthstone, etc. Those have realized business equities. They’re practically self sustaining.

muddybulldog,

Those aren’t even the moneymakers in that deal. The real money is in King.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Why wouldn’t they just buy a large stake if they’re only there for the money? The reason to buy the company out is control, meaning they can further other interests (e.g. growing XBox market share) through the acquisition.

BudgieMania, (edited )

Nah, even then that guy is still right. Go check out what Microsoft makes in a quarter, Q22023 for example.

They can afford that loss. Remember, Microsoft is stupid big and makes stupid money, if you go to any world index fund, Microsoft is like 3% of it. It is titanic.

BarrierWithAshes,
@BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social avatar

Yeah no way. I can't see it. Maybe shutting down game pass and shuttering xbox integration but I can't see them completely leaving. Too much money on the table.

Hiccup,

They created the Zune only to promptly shut it and the division down. The zunes were awesome and I wish we had more options for music playback devices.

nanoUFO, do games w Microsoft May Exit Gaming Business If Game Pass Subscribers off Console Don't Increase Enough by 2027
@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’m totally okay with that, I don’t think Microsoft represents a positive force in gaming or in technology in general.

muddybulldog,

Then who? Sony? The company that made rootkit a household name?

nanoUFO,
@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works avatar

How about none of them? But Sony has far less power in this space anyway.

Jamie, do games w Unity to Cap Runtime Fee to 4% of Revenue Over $1M, Users Will Self-Report Figures
@Jamie@jamie.moe avatar

Hopefully development studios can hold strong and continue their boycott anyway. Backing down now basically means Unity got away with it, in a sense. Plus, companies are learning from each other’s shitty tactics lately ala Twitter, Reddit, and Recently Facebook coming out with payment schemes on things that used to be free.

So if Unity does this, other software companies will probably try some similar stuff.

Klystron, do games w Microsoft May Exit Gaming Business If Game Pass Subscribers off Console Don't Increase Enough by 2027

While less competition is bad, I’m not sure there’s been a competition with Microsoft since like 2009. They have continuously proven that they will make the dumbest choices with stuff like always on online, can’t play used games, gimping games for the series x because the series s is basically just the Xbox one again, buying game developers and doing absolutely nothing with them, and releasing maybe two interesting exclusives in the span of 15 years. I was team green from the og launch until I got my PS4 but man I hope they just kick Xbox to the curb and just let PC kinda do its own thing. I have zero confidence in Xbox making any decision right in the gaming space.

Blizzard,

That and also - fuck Microsoft.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

Games look better on the Series X than the PS5. Very little is gimped.

Daefsdeda, do games w Alleged GTA 6 Videos & Source Code Leaked; Schreier: It's Real

Can’t wait for it to lose all its charm compared to the other games with a microtransaction filled online world…

Blizzard,

Is that confirmed or you just guessing?

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

It’s R*/T2 what do you expect if you look at RDRO and GTAO?

Daefsdeda,

Just guessing. But I wouldn’t call it a miracle if I am right.

Nfntordr, do games w Doom Studio id Software is Seemingly Working on new Version of its Game Engine - id Tech 8

I wish there were more games licensed to use idtech.

mindbleach, do games w Xbox Partners With Alpine F1 Team For Multi-year Sponsor Deal As "Official Console Partner"

Anti-competitive exclusivity is the only thing propping up the facade of console platforms.

bjoern_tantau, do games w Doom Studio id Software is Seemingly Working on new Version of its Game Engine - id Tech 8
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Meh, wake me up when they continue the tradition of open sourcing old engines.

bingbong,

Unity would like to know your location

kugmo,
@kugmo@sh.itjust.works avatar

I bet if Bethesda had never bought iD they would still be doing this.

Weirdfish, do games w The Elder Scrolls VI Is at Least Five Years Away, and Is Likely to Launch on PC, Xbox Series X|S Only

I’ve always been a fan, but no way I’m buying a second system just for Bethesda games.

Yes, I bought a switch to play Zelda, but that’s where I draw the line.

Skyrim has released on basically every platform that exists, I have to assume Starfield, and ES6, will eventually release on PS5. That is just too much money to leave on the table.

On the other hand, Demon Souls was spawned out of a failed PS exclusive to go head to head against Oblivion, and I’d dare say the souls series have given more to gaming than the past decade of Bethesda releases.

LoafyLemon, do games w Doom Studio id Software is Seemingly Working on new Version of its Game Engine - id Tech 8

ID Software are Vulkan wizards. Absolute mad lads.

mojo,

I know you’re talking about the rendering software, but vulkan wizard sounds like a dope DnD class

bingbong,

DnD x Star Trek

The crossover I never realized I needed

reallynotnick, do games w Doom Studio id Software is Seemingly Working on new Version of its Game Engine - id Tech 8

It’s a shame we have only gotten 1 game on id Tech 7 (Doom Eternal). I know it’s a highly specialized engine, but I’d love to see more FPS titles using it or this new version (Wolfenstein 3 please)

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow,

Dunno how interested I’d be in Wolfenstein 3 without Mick Gordon.

reallynotnick,

I need to fight mecha-Hilter, I don’t care if it’s in complete silence ha.

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow,

Can’t imagine it would be much of a fight based on what we saw in TNC

NumbersCanBeFun, do games w Doom Studio id Software is Seemingly Working on new Version of its Game Engine - id Tech 8
@NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social avatar

Didn’t they work on a new engine when they made fallout 76? I’m sure that wasn’t at all a disaster.

n3m37h,

id Software provided development assistance on Fallout 76, in the form of additional programmers. Specifically, they assisted with netcode from Quake Champions to support the multiplayer functionality needed to realize the game.

The creation engine is the disaster

NumbersCanBeFun,
@NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social avatar

That’s fair. Thanks for pointing it out.

JasSmith,

Can you imagine trying to shove netcode into Gamebryo? Id developers on their first day.

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow,

Gamebryo was an MMO engine before it was a single player engine interestingly enough

eltimablo,

It's also used for the FIFA games, if I'm not mistaken.

n3m37h,

And on the last day of ID working at Bethesda the “this is fine” meme was made

TeddyPolice,
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Snatching netcode from Quake Champions is a disaster. You know, that competitive multiplayer game with client authoritative hit detection. It’s broken in design.

n3m37h,

So a perfect match for the creation engine!

TeddyPolice,
@TeddyPolice@feddit.de avatar

CE is actually way better than people give it credit for. This “Bethesda engine bad” sentiment is primarily users throwing a crap ton of broken mods without any rhyme or reason into the game and then acting all surprised pikachu when that causes problems.

Brunbrun6766, do games w Doom Studio id Software is Seemingly Working on new Version of its Game Engine - id Tech 8
@Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world avatar

New Doom when?

CybranM,

hopefully its going to be more like Doom 2016 than Eternal

InEnduringGrowStrong, (edited )
@InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yea I have a hard time articulating why, but I preferred 2016 to Eternal.
Also, I think Mick Gordon and id Software aren’t likely to work together anymore, which to me is kinda the nail in the coffin of these reboots.
I don’t think Doom can be Doom without its music composer.

raptir,

I don’t think Doom can be Doom without its music composer.

Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, Doom 64 and Doom 3 would all like a word with you.

Crismus,

Maybe they should pony up for another Trent Reznor score.

torvusbogpod,

You jest but I would love a moden Quake reboot with a squelchy, organic NiN soundtrack

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