XboxEra Community Hangout |OT5| Season of the Infinite.. Arguments

[Akosii]

@Brandon

I hopped off after the first avengers. Was a pretty good peak and the only ones i have watched and liked since then were the 2 guardian of the galaxy movies

At least you watched some good movies. I hate the fact that some marvel movies are good with context.

[Proven]

BREAKING: Sega & Microsoft To Explore Strategic Alliance To Establish Next-Generation Development!

Nick is about to reveal every future Xbox acquisition on this podcast, tune in!

[power]

I’ve been playing The Evil Within 2 and it’s pretty clear that Tango need a new engine if they want to continue perusing third-person perspective games. Their Stem offshoot of id Tech holds the game back.

[Staffy]

@profjjj

I decided I needed to re-install Skyrim SE on my PC and get a stable modded version going before the Anniversary edition comes out and screws everyone’s modlists up. So, I am currently in the process of downloading 791 mods from Nexus. Thankfully, Wabbajack is doing it automatically. Just a few years ago the entire process was manual and it would literally take me a full week to get the game going.

File size: Skyrim SW ~ 12 gigs, Mods ~ 70 gigs

I do not get at all that BGS just doesn’t make a separate version for AE and leave SE as it is. Tons of modders and users of mods are not going to be happy and that’s putting it mildly. They can avoid negative backlash for sure here.

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

@power

I’ve been playing The Evil Within 2 and it’s pretty clear that Tango need a new engine if they want to continue perusing third-person perspective games. Their Stem offshoot of id Tech holds the game back.

Idk about new engine but I need TEW3 to be more like the first game.

[rtansey]

@Proven

Nick is about to reveal every future Xbox acquisition on this podcast, tune in!

I’m listening and it’s entertaining but there’s a lot of kinda HOPIUM getting passed around.

[Doncabesa (Jesse Norris)]

@rtansey

I’m listening and it’s entertaining but there’s a lot of kinda HOPIUM getting passed around.

“hopium” and “copium” are terms I’m not a fan of due to the nature of the communities that love to use them.

[rtansey]

@Doncabesa

“hopium” and “copium” are terms I’m not a fan of due to the nature of the communities that love to use them.

ah mb. I’m coming off watching a lot of Worlds for League where it’s been thrown around on broadcast. I can understand not liking the League community in addition to those suspects though

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

I bought the Banner Saga Trilogh for $15 off Amazon and so far so good.

[rtansey]

I don’t really understand the takes they’re making about how it’s unique (or a SIGN) that Sarah Bond is the one brokering the deal with SEGA vs Satya with Sony. Sony was Sony at large, not PlayStation and Sony wasn’t some client with Microsoft/Xbox beforehand.

SEGA obviously has a relationship with Microsoft/Xbox as they are the platform holders and SEGA is a gaming company first and foremost. Bond is the CVP at Microsoft/Xbox with a focus on business development, partners, creators and ecosystem across Xbox/Azure/MS365. Of course it makes sense for Sarah to be leading discussions in this space.

I feel like people see Sarah at E3 and talking about Game Pass and so they think that’s all she’s about, so there must be some ulterior motive.

I’m sure there COULD be discussions here or a building of a business relationship w/r/t game pass and ports or whatever. But this really could be just as simple as Microsoft trying to win a big client for Azure/365/GameStack and gettin’ paid for it.

But it makes for good content/discussion to hype it up as a shadow acquisition/day one game pass deals/exclusive IP revivals…

[Boosted_Gear]

@rtansey

…ey are the platform holders and SEGA is a gaming company first and foremost. Bond is the CVP at Microsoft/Xbox with a focus on business development, partners, creators and ecosystem across Xbox/Azure/MS365. Of course it makes sense for Sarah to be leading discussions in this space. I feel like people see Sarah at E3 and talking about Game Pass and so they think that’s all she’s about, so there must be some ulterior motive. I’m sure there COULD be discussions here or a building of a business relationship w/r/t game pass and ports or whatever. But this really could be just as simple as Microsoft trying to win a big client for Azure/365/GameStack and gettin’ paid for it. But it makes for good content/discussion to hype it up as a shadow acquisition/day one game pass deals/exclusive IP revivals…

https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1455274222813646853 https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1455274224776617993 https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1455274226521358345 https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1455274228014624773 https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1455274229562290179

Jez Corden is also gonna make an article around that with more details.

[rtansey]

@Boosted_Gear

I’ve seen the Zhuge tweets. I’m not sure what you’re getting at with this response though? Zhuge is saying Xbox (the gaming face of Microsoft) has an end-to-end offering comprised of Azure, GameStack, Game Pass, Hardware, etc. Which is also why Sarah Bond isn’t just Game Pass, like I said. She deals with the Xbox gaming ecosystem as a whole (the end-to-end) for business partners and creators.

SEGA isn’t forced to commit to all layers and all offerings Microsoft has to offer (they can host on Azure and not use GameStack tools like Simplygon…). Microsoft obviously wants to sell all their tools and services because that’s how they make money though. That’s why getting a big client like SEGA integrated within their entire suite and gaming ecosystem is beneficial for MS. MS gets paid and gets to mature their tools to meet real-world needs at scale.

And I’m not saying this is ultimately meaningless at all. It’s obviously a big deal, but it’s just Microsoft landing a large client to use their cloud tools atm. It’s nice to see Japanese developers getting closer to the brand. I’ll read Jez’s article for sure, but idk Jez usually doesn’t have any super deep business takes or insight. Great leaks/project info though.

[IdiotGuru (Justin)]

@rtansey

I’ll read Jez’s article for sure, but idk Jez usually doesn’t have any super deep business takes or insight. Great leaks/project info though.

I’m looking forward to Brad Sams talking a bit more about what he knows.

[Boosted_Gear]

@rtansey

… to all layers and all offerings Microsoft has to offer (they can host on Azure and not use GameStack tools like Simplygon…). Microsoft obviously wants to sell all their tools and services because that’s how they make money though. That’s why getting a big client like SEGA integrated within their entire suite and gaming ecosystem is beneficial for MS. MS gets paid and gets to mature their tools to meet real-world needs at scale. And I’m not saying this is ultimately meaningless at all. It’s obviously a big deal, but it’s just Microsoft landing a large client to use their cloud tools atm. It’s nice to see Japanese developers getting closer to the brand. I’ll read Jez’s article for sure, but idk Jez usually doesn’t have any super deep business takes or insight. Great leaks/project info though.

Jez can totally also have more details about that and what it entails. For the rest, it was just for context into the situation. But let’s move that to the SEGA partnership topic.

[rtansey]

@IdiotGuru

I’m looking forward to Brad Sams talking a bit more about what he knows.

Brad Sams is pretty good about MS business yeah

[AllianceOfficer]

@Boosted_Gear

Jez can totally also have more details about that and what it entails. For the rest, it was just for context into the situation. But let’s move that to the SEGA partnership topic.

Sarah also talked about how she was excited to share more. If it was all internal stuff she wouldn’t care. It’s going to mean something for Xbox, we just don’t know what that is yet.

[Proven]

Xbox Official Site: Consoles, Games, and Community | Xbox

[saintsflow20]

@Proven

They got the Bestbox design up. Nice.

[Mort]

@AllianceOfficer

Sarah also talked about how she was excited to share more. If it was all internal stuff she wouldn’t care. It’s going to mean something for Xbox, we just don’t know what that is yet.

Maybe SEGA will drag Atlus kicking and screaming onto Xbox hah.

[RolzRavz]

@Akosii

A lot of people felt that Endgame is a good point to hop off the Marvel bandwagon.

I am one of those people, I had enough of Super hero movies all together. I just dont find anything fresh or exciting and I even stopped watching trailers.