Xbox Game Studios |OT11| The One with Starfield and Activision Blizzard King

Please keep the PS Porting discussion in its thread.

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Everwild :eyes:

I imagine real Everwild being an animal life simulator where each species lives according to its own rules, the creatures hunt, eat, sleep, drink, reproduce they have their behavior the lizards come out to warm themselves on a stone in the sun, there are creatures that clean other creatures like these birds we see on the Rhinos, some creatures hunt and bring the carcass into a cave to feed their young, after a period of rain some predator and prey creatures gather in the same place to drink from savannah, I can see this kind of thing happening in Everwild the climate influences the nature and behavior of creatures.

they vaguely talk about it here

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Come on, let’s not be like this.

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The game looks really special. I wish it was released in a more quiet time. With all the drama and news around, I’m sure that HB2 critical reception will be affected.

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Which is complete BS and wouldn’t happen to Sony or Nintendo. Only Xbox gets this treatment.

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Looks incredible! I don’t even mind it’s not gonna be much longer than the first of the experience is gonna be epic.

I do hope in the future they can bring us a DMC/Enslaved kind of game with these visuals. That is assuming things don’t go completely to shit for Xbox overall.

In theory Hellblade 2 should rather be supported by the press and the players so that the Studio does not close but there is a lot of hypocrisy on the internet I saw people saying “play Hi-Fi Rush and Prey” now that the Studios closed. We had to support these games before. Microsoft have decided to make very special games and to give freedom and creativity to the teams but the games must still fulfill certain objectives; you cannot develop original games at a loss one after the other.

Sea of thieves #3 in the US and #1 in the EU on PS5

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Seeing the verifiably false narratives being pushed by some of these outlets today, especially on their podcasts, I don’t think there’s any good-faith proof to counter this argument anymore.

There’s a difference in accountability to push for change and dogpiling with disinformation and historical revisionism. I literally saw a podcast title saying “Xbox needs to stop talking and start delivering” after 18 months of their first party pumping out content compared to a fraction from Sony’s side (I’m talking actual first party studios and not moneyhats before the usual goalpost mover starts).

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Xbox decides if they care about their studios, not you or any other publisher.

They cared so much they didn’t close them down despite years of loses. They gave them far more chances than they would’ve had as an indie

Yeah not closing studios down and giving them that means of pursuing creative ventures is way better than firing people

Hell putting them on moneymakers is

Way better than firing people. Always. There is no justification to firing someone (aside of course there’s crime involved.)

But I’ll end it there. MS has earned its stigma amongst critics and enthusiasts and crying fpul that other studios aren’t scrutinized similarly is just another example of people too fucking invested in a brand that seeks to make money caring too much.

You care just as much as the people you’re criticizing. Two sides of the same coin. Direct your anger at MS, not at people who had no control over this.

Noticing a clear bias is not being too invested in a platform, it’s about having eyes and seeing shit and not sticking your head in the sand and ignoring it. Everything that is going on with Xbox is an industry wide problem, these are all corporations and should get the same scrutiny. The gaming media sycophants and other assorted pundits would have you believe it’s only going on with Microsoft and not the wider industry issue because they don’t actually give a shit, it’s about pushing a narrative, clicks and engagement and should be called out .(but we all know that ship has sailed and gaming discourse will pretty much always be the shitshow it is now)

This is not to defend Microsoft either, I’ve been an xbox fan since the beginning in spite of MS not because of them. But I’m not going to pretend that there is no bad faith acting and riding the coattails of this shit to push narratives.

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Still no older CoD in Game Pass.

Seems it truly will be a thing they announce at the June show, but why not just do it now? People expect this to be a given, not some huge surprise.

Honestly because putting every cod on game pass could detract from other games. If anything that should be a slow drip, of one cod every 2 months. This way each of them will get a large amount of attention, but won’t over saturate game pass to being just cod.

Hopefully they start with one or two that have a zombie mode, because I’m really wanting to play the maps I never played before. But if they drop them by release order…it’s probably gonna take a while because I played CoD 2, MW1 etc.

But really, they could start with it now, this month wasn’t super amazing for GP.

It could help consider the easily avoidable holes they fell into this week with their less than stellar decisions (I say this because Microsoft has so much trouble getting enough people help to get a game out on time).

Maybe doing some early fish drops could help, then again who knows, it could make it worse.