I checked out the tutorial and a little bit of expedition on 2nd Extinction on Game Pass during my lunch break, and wow it exceeded my expectations! It looks and plays so great on my Series X, and man it is fun to be mowing through some dinosaurs. I highly recommend checking this one out.
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Adding it to the list
I think that âitâs making moneyâ and âitâs not making moneyâ a really extreme way to see things.
It IS obviously making enough money to sustain itself and make a profit from it, is it making an absurd amount of money so MS can boast about it? Probably not, but itâs totally fine.
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About Second Extinction, cross posting my first impressions from Era:
Played Second Extinction for a while. Cool game and gameplay, but itâs a co-op game through and through, itâs near impossible to play it solo⌠Unless you go to Expeditions and choose the minimum threat areas, and even there itâs hard af without support. Guess Iâll wait and see if my friends want to play it sometime.
If you know anything about the financial world and subscription services, the moment a service becomes profitable itâs a big deal, and something a company would certainly brag about.
Fun Fact. As of right now, after being a massive success for many years, Netflix is still spending more each year than they make. In most cases itâs hard to make money on subscription services. There is a reason Sony and Nintendo are not eager to jump into this world like Microsoft have.
He is informed on Ayn Rand and other libertarianism wet dreams, speaking without thinking, speaking without care and empathy and being a privileged half-wit.
He is of a no benefit to any community and should not be held up as any kind of representative.
Iâll stop the rant there 
as I donât know him personally, its possible he conducts himself very well in private and only comes across as pillock in public for âreasonsâ 
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I mean, Gaming Revenue was up 50% on last quarter alone. It was certainly not driven by Gears Tactics and The Medium.
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iâve been subbed to Netflix for 6 years now and not once iâve stopped to think
âwait a fucking second, but is this making money for them?â
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I think all that Game Pass money is being reinvested to get more games on to the service till they reach a critical mass where it is making boatloads of money and still pay the developers and publishers on the service.
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Gamepass discourse and concern trolling go hand and hand. 
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plus unlike netflix Microsoft has ways to make money off the Games on the service.
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Or it could just be breaking even. Who knows? Honestly, whatever it is it is. All I care about is Microsoft/Sony doing whatâs best for me personally and thus far, I have no complaints or concerns with either.
Youâre rightâŚIt was Enlisted
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The entire gaming industry saw a huge surge in sales in the last year because of the pandemic.
And that is a fine position to take. The problem is people claiming to know Game Pass is profitable right now, which is a laughable claim, and lots of people believing that lie, which in turns skews their perceptions of the entire industry and drives absurd conversations like âwhy arenât Sony and Nintendo doing thisâ, etc.
If weâre going to have honest conversations around this industry they should at least be based on reality, and not what some twitter Xbox hype man is telling his eager followers.
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Yeah. I bought so much games I would not have bought because of GP. I even buy games that are still on the service, like Street of Rage 4 recently, to support the devs and to be sure I wonât forget later. But thatâs just me.
Also, some people donât understand that game pass is NOT FREE. Suscribing to Game pass IS paying for games !! Cost is subsidized, but devs get the money you give every month !
So buying the game later is like paying the game twice in a sense that you already paid to play it. Thatâs why Game pass is genius. It makes you think that itâs too good to be true and makes you more willing to buy other games. For me, at least, it worksâŚ
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Here is the thing I was teasing the other day. Shadow drop of a Series version of The Sinking City. Somehow still not 4k on YouTube but Iâm happy with how the review came out since I only had 4 days to play the entire game, write the review, narrate it, and edit the video together.
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VGC stated bloober and a prominent Japanese studio I have no idea who it would be with sony Japan studios dead
I donât think streaming services have sad fanatics looking to discredit other services.
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Iâll also add there is a very sad culture where people are celebrating mega corporations making money only because they are so attached to a brand that they want the company to âwinâ monetarily.
As a fan I only care that Xbox does well so they can continue investing in gaming. Iâm not worried that rich people continue to be rich. Fans shouldnât defend or celebrate a company making money because they want to use it as ammo for console wars.
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I agree i want xbox to do well to but too often people just want to console war like iâm glad playstation is doing good but can we do it without crapping on what xbox has done and vice versa.