I’ve stopped even bothering to report console war posts because it’s the whole site now. They’re not even bothering to pretend it’s against the rules anymore. It has literally become an openly anti-Microsoft activist forum. 
Already happening.
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And of course if someone tries to fight the pitchfork mob, they get a warning for trolling.
In other news, we’re getting Helldivers 2 on Xbox. Now that’s a nice surprise.
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I hope they can comprehend this move. If they still have this mind set of killing Xbox, let this be the case of karma then. Honestly, this is the right move for Sony. This is one and only successful live service game; why leave it at that. That said it can lead to Pandora box and now people can expect at least live service or publishing title to come to Xbox.
It’s childish of course and unbecoming of actual adults but for those in here (& elsewhere) who’re a bit sick and tired of the dooming and hating on Xbox, then there’s some salty tears flowing in the other forums and on social media right now over the Helldivers 2 Xbox port.
I said years ago I’m all for multiplatform if it’s a two way street. Hell yes. Give us everything and vice versa. Helldivers 2 is a good start. I understand things don’t happen overnight but I also hope to see Silent Hill 2 Remake later this year (because we’ve got Black Myth Wukong coming as well).
I’m certain SH2 Remake will come to Xbox and very likely to release this year.
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I do think that Konami should embrace the play anywhere strategy from xbox, a good portion of their games got it this year(Suidoken, new silent hill game and the eden zero game), it would raise a lot of awareness towards the xbox playerbase and even some pc users.
They seem to get the memo right off the gate. Capcom should embrace for more, though to their credit, they did manage to enable some older titles, like RE2 and 3.
I wonder if people would prefer Perfect Dark getting cancelled, or getting a “Redfail 2.0” in a couple of years. (“Pathetic Dark” perhaps? I’m sure someone can come up with something better.)
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Theres definitely a bunch of folks who would prefer that. Great fodder for the console warring and engagement farming.
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There’s a good reason many Xbox fans left that site. I remember when people were all like “i’s ok for Xbox fans to come here! It’s nothing like Neogaf” when the site first started and I took a wait and see approach and just like I thought, old Neogaf under a new name (and it’s not just console war stuff that site has gone full mask off about either) MS fucking up just lets them troll and console war unimpeded ,so long as it’s Xbox. Same shit as Neogaf during the Xbox One launch.
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More news coming up about the cancelled Zos MMO, from Schreier he says that the people who said it was incredible were playtesters. The game also didn’t seem ti be having dev issues.
From IGN, Zos had only now started scaling up to get development going recently. My guess it was the hiring they were doing not to long ago.
So it sounds to me like the game wouldn’t be in full development for a while.
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Probably the same folks who right now on Icon Era are threatening to quit PlayStation because of gasps Helldivers 2 getting ported to Xbox.
There’s a bunch of people who’ve been left to live on the periphery of society for decades now and they’ve become gaming’s own Wrong Turn meets The Hills have Eyes. Sony Ponies of course.
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I’m always confused about BDS against Xbox . Is it because parent company Microsoft ? I think people never thought about how hard it is to just drop an ecosystem . People have spent thousands of dollars on Xbox and it’s not easy for many to just buy a new piece of hardware and repurchase games
Also I remember reading that Sony for example sold surveillance cameras that is used by the idf , so do we also boycott PlayStation ? Then we have Apple and google who also that are also involved ? So do we stop using smartphones ?
I understand it’s a very serious issue but I feel big tech is heavily involved and it doesn’t seem possible to fully boycott these companies because most are involved and the average person doesn’t have the money to find an ethical replacement imo
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Using events in the middle-east to demand (yes, demand, which is what’s going on over on era) a boycott of Xbox is so gross and shameless it’s difficult to put into words. It’s the ultimate act of mature fanboyism in which real life events are inserted into the conversation with a heavily biased appraisal to fit a narrative and agenda. It’s what happens when 40 years who haven’t grown up go console warring.
Because if we’re going to go ‘there’, aka to the IDF and all that, then people should start boycotting the IRS considering how the US government backs Israel. It’s that simple. Or Hollywood for that matter as well.
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They are targeting Xbox as it’s the more consumer-facing part of Microsoft. Also, whilst the IDF may have purchased Sony cameras, Sony did not have their engineers work alongside the IDF to implement the tech, so let’s not conflate with Microsoft willingly selling their services to the IDF.
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Its also wholly hypocritical and self-contradicting.
OH THE HUMANITY, HOW CAN MS FIRE THESE PEOPLE AND CLOSE THESE STUDIOS!
also
DONT BUY ANYTHING THEY MAKE!!! REEEEEEEEE
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Somehow it’s reassuring to me that hardcore Sony communities also have the same kind of crazed, irrational doomers that we have on the Xbox side. 
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Yep, I think it was last year with the what games were publishing on PS and so many were claiming to trade in their Xbox for a PS and/or just plain boycotting.
Thank you, I wasn’t familiar with it which had me confused why Xbox is paying for sins of parent company. That makes more sense
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The weird thing is this will do more good than harm, yet they don’t realize that.