XboxEra Community Hangout |OT| Safe Space no longer required (Part 1)

Mort · February 5, 2021, 6:12pm

Ruthwik_Rao · February 5, 2021, 6:13pm

exactly, it’s the last place outside Japan that I expected this to happen lol, but pretty cool yeah.

ProgStopper · February 5, 2021, 6:17pm

I’M GOING TO READ THE REPLIES TO THE TWEET!

ProgStopper · February 5, 2021, 6:18pm

stealthyfrog · February 5, 2021, 6:19pm

The UK is one of the more competitive regions for Xbox I thought. NA, UK and Latin America are where Xbox does the most business IIRC

Biggzy · February 5, 2021, 6:19pm

You think so? I would say somewhere like Spain not the UK. The UK is arguably Xbox’s strongest market outside the US.

It is surprising but I definitely think supply issues reared its head here and how Sony have to spread their’s more thinly compared to Xbox.

Ruthwik_Rao · February 5, 2021, 6:21pm

But it outsold the goddamn switch too, which are produced like soldiers from what I know.

Also xbox spread more this time while PS didn’t. Maybe Sony started spreading it in Jan? Idk but here in my country, Xbox came in november (as opposed to a year later in the previous gen), while PS5 launched this month.

Biggzy · February 5, 2021, 6:24pm

Who knows, the Switch might be reaching saturation in the UK, or demand is through the roof everywhere and Nintendo is affected just as much by supply issues.

javycane · February 5, 2021, 6:52pm

Kinda weird but I like when games make and use their own languages. Makes the experience more unique to me.

Example: Ori, Gravity Rush

anon15396042 · February 5, 2021, 7:07pm

peter42O:

…h if anything, is just going to bring them more negativity and toxicity. Like, why even say that in the first place? If it’s only a handful of times in a 100+ hour game, no one is going to remember that anyway until they play through the remaster and even then, if the remaster is great, vast majority simply won’t care or will just forget about it as they’re playing through the game. In my eyes, it’s just pure stupidity from EA/BioWare. They can make whatever changes they want but stuff like that shouldn’t be mentioned at all because they know what is going to happen. Of course, on the bright side for them, no publicity is bad publicity so that may actually get them more views and sales. But whatever, I will be too busy playing Resident Evil VIII when that releases anyway so it is what it is.

That’s a decent sized post to explain, in detail, why you don’t care… but this is such a stupid move from BioWare… but you don’t even care anyway.

Why are you talking about it at all, if you don’t even care.

Anyway, BioWare never “announced” this. They were asked about it in an interview & they answered. They explained removing the focus on Miranda’s ass within the context of other little changes & tweaks they’ve made. They also explained that they are not at all interested in changing any character designs, for example, but they just thought the camera leering at Miranda’s body was a bit naff. Which it was.

Again, it’s not a big deal. Not unless people want to make it a big deal. It’s certainly not a decision that should bring down any negativity or toxicity. It doesn’t even need to be questioned but I guess you guys, who totally don’t even care because it’s whatever, feel the need to question it anyway.

peter42O · February 5, 2021, 7:11pm

anon15396042:

That’s a decent sized post to explain, in detail, why you don’t care… but this is such a stupid move from BioWare… but you don’t even care anyway.

Why are you talking about it at all, if you don’t even care.

Anyway, BioWare never “announced” this. They were asked about it in an interview & they answered. They explained removing the focus on Miranda’s ass within the context of other little changes & tweaks they’ve made. They also explained that they are not at all interested in changing any character designs, for example, but they just thought the camera leering at Miranda’s body was a bit naff. Which it was.

Again, it’s not a big deal. Not unless people want to make it a big deal. It’s certainly not a decision that should bring down any negativity or toxicity. It doesn’t even need to be questioned but I guess you guys, who totally don’t even care because it’s whatever, feel the need to question it anyway.

Because I find the entire thing funny and felt like answering.

anon15396042 · February 5, 2021, 7:15pm

Ok then. As the kids say these days, you do you.

peter42O · February 5, 2021, 7:16pm

Cool. Agreed.

Mesiac · February 5, 2021, 7:22pm

peter42O:

…h if anything, is just going to bring them more negativity and toxicity. Like, why even say that in the first place? If it’s only a handful of times in a 100+ hour game, no one is going to remember that anyway until they play through the remaster and even then, if the remaster is great, vast majority simply won’t care or will just forget about it as they’re playing through the game. In my eyes, it’s just pure stupidity from EA/BioWare. They can make whatever changes they want but stuff like that shouldn’t be mentioned at all because they know what is going to happen. Of course, on the bright side for them, no publicity is bad publicity so that may actually get them more views and sales. But whatever, I will be too busy playing Resident Evil VIII when that releases anyway so it is what it is.

I dunno, I think gaming media would’ve focused on it some in the remaster because it was low hanging fruit that doesn’t fit current sensibilities. I’m fine with them removing it. It was stupid anyway.

anon98342452 · February 5, 2021, 7:52pm

@peter42O minor nitpick…you “couldn’t” care less, not could, right?

peter42O · February 5, 2021, 7:57pm

Nope. It is “could care less” meaning that I could care less than I already do. So for example, if my interest in something is 10% and I say that I could care less, this means that my interest would go below 10% which obviously would be caring even less than I did before. Saying “couldn’t” means that 10% would never decrease below 10% and trust me, there’s a lot of stuff that I have interest in that can always at any time decrease. lmao.

anon98342452 · February 5, 2021, 7:59pm

Alright bud. You do you.

peter42O · February 5, 2021, 8:10pm

Hehehe.

pg2g · February 5, 2021, 8:40pm

I can’t tell whether this is what you think the phrase means or you don’t like admitting when you’ve got something wrong.

peter42O · February 5, 2021, 8:50pm

I say “could care less” simply because if I dislike something today, I can always end up hating it tomorrow meaning that I would care less tomorrow than I do today. Simply don’t know until it happens. If I say “couldn’t” that implies that if I dislike something, I can never hate it which makes no sense to me because opinions change everyday and never stays the same.