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

Bobby is like “I’m here too guys!”

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They put him on the end to be easily cut out :joy:

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https://x.com/jaay_rock_/status/1715016558748012657?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ

Was Kotaku acquired? What’s with the positivity for Xbox?

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ABK deal passed :sweat_smile: they know the days are limited of being able to shit talk Xbox and it be the thing people love

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https://twitter.com/CrashBandicoot/status/1715050291588931951?t=bGxFPbB0V-DYRi8symtdHg&s=19 https://twitter.com/ToysForBob/status/1715050182348312943?t=Th709pHkEOCYY6WNHS_XZA&s=19

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Microsoft should release this game on PC and put it in GP. I’d also like to see CTR come to Steam, but that’s another story.

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Probably an idea the moment they’re ready to drop them in game pass.

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That source is like Jar Jar Binks would say Nutsen.

The other day I saw an article with the headline “Spider Man 2 is the anti-Starfield.”

Oh, my bad. That was not Kotaku. Could swear it was, easily could have been.

OMG!!! Please let Redfall die. Really hoping Arkane Lyon and Austin move on to Dishonored 3 and Prey 2 respectively. No, I don’t want Deathloop 2 either.

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https://x.com/bondsarah_bond/status/1715114366671233210?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ

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Prey 2 would be SO damned great.

It’s good that Redfall is 60fps now, hope they can fix the AI and then just leave it at that. I don’t think folks are expecting miracle changes for this game. Definitely agree with you that they hopefully fully move to new projects sooner rather than later.

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Redfall already promised and sold 2 DLC characters. They’re going to see that through with other improvements along the way

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I get where you’re coming from, I also hope they’re already in some stage of development of their next project, but improving and supporting Redfall doesn’t mean that can’t happen. Studios now can develop two games at the same time, let alone just having a skeleton team to improve/support one project post-launch and the rest of the studio can be up ahead on the next project. Plus, any upcoming project couldn’t possibly already be in a stage where all the studio is required to be hands on deck anyway.

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My suspicion is:

The first two games that started the ‘all 1st party games land on Game Pass day 1’ policy, Sea of Thieves and State of Decay 2, were both poorly received at launch (67 and 69 on OC). Both receive updates to this day, both are moderately popular to this day, SOD2 with over 10M+ lifetime players and SOT with over 30M.

It’s possible that releasing those updates generates enough engagement over time that it’s more worthwhile for Microsoft to keep fixing and adding to an already released game rather than abandoning it completely, even when it’s a game with no additional monetization.

I LOVED Prey 2017 and haven’t touched Redfall at all, but who knows if they keep improving and adding to the game I might download it some day…

Hmmm…

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I mean they’re not being actively played in huge numbers anymore, SOD2 is out of top 50 on XBL, SOT hovers between #30 and #50 depending on the country. But they’re still having enough engagement to justify content updates.

Some of these lifetime players might have downloaded and uninstalled after 5 minutes, some might have invested 100s of hours. Microsoft typically announces the number of lifetime players milestones, but the number they’re looking at internally is total hours across all users as a measure of engagement. But we don’t have access to those obviously.

I know, it was just an attempt at being funny :wink:

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We’re finally in a post ABK acquisition finalized and Starfield is out world, now Microsoft needs to do everything they can to get WoW on Xbox, it just seems like a big no brainer and easy win.

enough with the kneejerk reactions, arkane austin can put out the dlc content they promised along with other improvements while having a smaller team do pre-production for their next project.

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They should at least deliver the 2 DLC characters they promised people, but after that I do think they should just move on. I don’t really see the potential turn around for the game, it’s not like people are going “Man Redfall was great it was just missing some content”.