Yeah this is bullshit. They wanted the IP’s and nothing more. Situations like this remind me of something that Marty O’Donnell said when that Bungie/Activision lawsuit happened. He said something along the lines of they have to own their IP’s because it’s the one thing a studio has that’s holds value.
They want to be a cloud gaming provider and sell Xbox fire TV sticks instead of consoles, with controllers that connect directly to the azure server running their games. Why do you think Nvidia and the UK weren’t happy with Microsoft a few years ago and they made so many deals with cloud gaming providers like boosteroid and GeForce now?
Microsoft turned every Windows PC into an Xbox overnight with XCloud and they had little to no overhead costs. That’s where their business is right now, cloud and AI, not gaming, Xbox will take a backseat and I’m going to bet we will see them transition from a console maker to simply publisher that conveniently sells a cloud TV stick that can play games.
Hmmm it’s almost like Jim Ryan was on to something when he said gamepass wasn’t good for the industry and publishers didn’t like it during the antitrust trial with Microsoft.
It blows my fucking mind how stupid some people are just to be able to play the next rehashed bullshit CoD on gamepass instead of paying $70 a year for the same garbage.
I feel like I’m the only one even remotely interested in this game. Does it look like watch dogs in space? Yes, but I for one enjoyed watch dogs for what it brought to the table. I’ve been dying to play a star wars game that doesn’t involve a Jedi as the main character, so this game is right up my alley. It’s Ubisoft so I’m very skeptical though and cautiously optimistic.
A link to the past for sure, it’s one of the greatest games of all time. My favorite modern Zelda is skyward sword, the dungeons in that game were so well crafted it’s insane the amount of effort and detail they contain. Least favorite has got to be breath of the wild, it’s a wonderful open world game, but an absolutely horrible Zelda game.
Have you ever tried to setup a Windows container let alone one on an Xbox? Even Microsoft knows windows containers are fucking shit, just look at azure Linux, it’s the entire reason for it’s existence
Ninja Blade would like a word with you, along with every shovelware game they made that wasn’t armored core. It is well known at this point FROM were in financial trouble before demon souls.
And this is what Sony was afraid of, why buy on PlayStation when I can play it on XCloud with gamepass for a fraction of the price? Especially if all I care about is the campaign which doesn’t take lightning fast reflexes and can be played with a small amount of latency.
This is also why the EU was worried about cloud gaming competition, but Microsoft played the long game with gamepass and now it doesn’t matter if their stuff is on other cloud platforms as long as they get that gamepass sub.
The thing is, this whole buyout was Microsoft spending “fuck you” money. They can’t beat PlayStation right now, so they’re playing dirty, shifting their business elsewhere and buying out the competition. Their whole business strategy is just hoping nobody gives a shit at this point, and if someone does give a shit they’ll just pay the fines and continue.
Last epoch, path of exile, grim dawn, Torchlight 1,2 and if you want to suffer 3, if you can suffer through Korean p2w nonsense then lost ark, and also titan quest. All of these games are on multiple platforms.