Xbox Game Studios |OT12| The One with Starfield and Activision Blizzard King

I guess SoT is starting the pirates in video games year.

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https://x.com/AvowedtheGame/status/1880676617896288367

One month!

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So excited by this game

As it is often the case today (think about fable and many others) there is a lot of social media bad buzz about the potential politics takes in the game. I don’t want to give energy into that, I just hope that the game will be good and entertaining, and I know obsidian is able to do such games.

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By the way, let’s say it once again, but this animated artwork is gorgeous

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I am excited to finally get my hands on Avowed, hopefully we get a fair amount of time for the review (and we’re allowed to say we have it, otherwise people ping me constantly with worry :valle:)

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You got one month of time. Make us proud.

Don’t have it yet, sadly.

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Crying out for a fantasy adventure / rpg to play. I have beaten Witcher 3, Elden Ring and Dragon Age… Baldurs Gate 3 I tried but couldnt get on with it. Oblivion / Skyrim I have played enough times

I know we have Avowed coming but I really wanna scratch the itch and cant think of anything. Perhaps I am being an idiot

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Try the Metaphor Demo and see if the game us to your liking.

Elder Scrolls Online if you don’t mind seeing others running around.

Since you said Elden Ring, Dark Souls trilogy if you haven’t already. Lies of P as well(but I guess this is less fantasy more Victorian).

Should have said, I have metaphor!

I decided to wait on the hope that we get something FF related at the Direct, or just wait for Avowed. I forgot I had purchased Prince of Persia in sale, so I have started that

Kingdom of Amalur

Risen remaster

Dark Souls

Lords of the Fallen

Greedfall

Dragons Dogma 1 and 2

Diablo 2,3,4

Grim Dawn

Titan Quest

Kingdom Come Deliverance

Wo Long

Path of Exile 1 and 2

If you didn’t like Baldurs Gate you probably won’t like these

Pillars 1 and 2

Pathfinder 1 and 2

Divinity 1 and 2

Solasta

Operencia (This one is a first person turn based dungeon crawler, definitely very niche)

King Arthur Knights Tale

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It’s been more than 3 years since I did this, thought it’d be interesting to see the growth/decline of studios since. Data from LinkedIn only.

July 2021 → Jan 25

  • 343 Industries - 567 → 419 Halo studios
  • The Coalition Studio - 193 → 265
  • Turn 10 Studios - 164 → 179
  • Rare - 261 → 295
  • Mojang - 569 → 1188
  • Playground games - 316 → 520
  • Ninja theory - 122 → 135
  • The initiative - 74 → 48
  • Undead labs - 97 → 126
  • Compulsion games - 69 → 110
  • Obsidian ent. - 236 → 307
  • Inxile - 109 → 120
  • Double Fine Productions - 81 → 92
  • Bethesda game studios - 383 → 624
  • Zenimax online - 446 → 714
  • id software - 277 → 347
  • MachineGames - 129 → 167
  • Arkane Studios - 255 → 245 (Arkane Austin closed)
  • Tango gameworks no record → Sold
  • Roundhouse - no record → Shifted to other teams
  • Alpha dog studios - no record → closed
  • Toy for BoB - no record → Independent

New entrants

  • Worlds edge - 9?
  • Blizzard - 5652
  • Infinity ward - 651
  • Treyarch - 643
  • Sledgehammer games - 466
  • Raven Software - 377
  • Beenox - 459
  • Digital legends - 114
  • High Moon - 251
  • King - 6011
  • Elsewhere entertainment - 52

Biggest Growth

  1. Mojang +619
  2. Zenimax Online +268
  3. Bethesda Game Studio + 241
  4. Playground Games +204
  5. Obsidan, id Software, The Coalition +70

Biggest Loser

Halo Studios -148 (343 used to be bigger before 2021)

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Hey FF 15 is def worth a shot, it’s a lil weird in. It’s mix of future and fantasy, but it’s a great game

Can you do a last day since the launch of the game?

No, I only have 2 instances of this info. But usually studios lose like 5-10% after the launch of the game.

Excluding Mojang, Playground now becomes the biggest XGS studio overtaking Halo studios.

The ZeniMax studios grew the most on average, with BGS in particular growing a lot after being stuck at ~300 for some time. Always said they needed to be bigger for the scope and size of the games they make, player expectations are always sky high in all areas. Feels like Xbox is investing a lot in them, after being stagnant under ZeniMax.

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Surprised at the Mojang growth, I don’t know why it surprises me as it is likely to pump out support for one of the largest games around, but it does.

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Mojang looks big until you consider King, who likely have twice the number of people working on Call of Duty.

Ooh, don’t see this mentioned very often. Very nice game!

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King’s mobile? They wouldn’t have anyone working on Call of Duty, only Candy Crush.