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Looks more like ERA and it's addiction to deepthroat the cocks that are byouts regardless of who buys shit.
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Looks more like ERA and it's addiction to deepthroat the cocks that are byouts regardless of who buys shit.
How exactly are you eating from a corporations acquisitions? Gamepass can easily be supported through much cheaper deals, if that's your go to response.
the other one is part of warner bros interactive, they're currently working on hogwarts legacy.
There are situations in which acquisitions can be good news. Obsidian's acquisition was a good thing for me because that team could expand and grow under MS. Some acquisition are pretty meh like Bethesda being acquired. I get why it happened but it didn't really make things better. That's more of a power move above anything else. If IOI is bought, then that's a bad acquisition imho. We could have had a indie team expand into a tour-de-force on their own without the backing of a multi-billion dollar corporation. A good acquisition means it benefits both the developer and gamers, a meh acquisition doesn't really help the developers or gamers, and a bad acquisition means it is detrimental to the industry. Taking away independent studios that have a lot of potential is a shitty thing and doesn't bode well for the industry at large imho.
Speaking outside of quality of output and purely studio numbers, Microsoft actually has far more than Sony now.
I'm not too familiar with their history so that could be true.
IIRC Hitman 3 was very successful for them so they seem like they are in a better spot compared to years ago. But if they need help funding wise from MS to make good games then it's a good move for them
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They're not even close to their goal of hundreds of millions on game pass, no way it's rising in price any time soon. If anything there will be cheaper streaming-only tiers and a continuation of deals to get people to try Game pass. Once Game pass is many more devices, xcloud is a lot better with XSX blades humming and the numbers are much much higher will you see MS looking at raising prices. I still believe we're years away from that.
Services like these usually start with a low price to reach a critical mass of subscribers as fast as possible and will then slowly raise the price. That's something that would likely happen regardless of how many studios MS buys.
I love that GamePass has been "The best value in gaming" for the past 3 years running but at the same time needs about 5-10 more studios to be bought for it
Hitman 2 and 3 did well for them and they're currently expanding.
As soon as a 1st party starts bying studios most of ERA just starts guzzling that shit.
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Yeah it's a real shame, feel very persecuted here that so many gamers without XBox, PC, phones, laptops smart tv's, streaming boxes will miss out on all this exclusive content.
Ok thats a good example. I couldn't come up with any studios that had put out a game after being bought by MS since Rare. I guess this new wave of acquisitions haven't had time to put anything out yet.
100% it will. Either the price will jump substantially or certain games will stop coming day 1. Everything is subject to change and people who cheer buyouts because it potentially means more value from a nebulous subscription service are naive af.
Kinda crazy considering how little smoke there's been the last several months. Curious to see who it is.
I think if you look at a something like The Initiative, and how cumbersome the process is to build a studio from scratch, you see how valuable "workforce in place" is when you're trying to build your first-party development capacity.
With Crytek, you're probably making a pretty cheap acquisition and you're getting (1) a functioning team, (2) a game that's in-progress and likely ready to launch in the next year or so, and (3) the ability to shake-up management and invest in the team over time.
Finally more MS acquisitions, I was worried for a minute, gonna wait for the official announcements for further comments though.
"The best value in gaming" is an ancillary effect of building the "Neflix of gaming". The latter hasn't yet been accomplished, so Microsoft will continue to build out its IP / developer porfolio to make that a reality.
Crazy. It's become exhausting coming into these threads and preaching how much I hate this shit, but no doubt this isn't stopping anytime soon. Ah well, at least this shit is coming to Game Pass, which is sick.
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