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In what is becoming a bit of a PR disaster for Ubisoft, Elden Ring fans are increasingly comparing the game to Ubisoft's open-world designs and MTX practices.
Increasingly it feels like Ubi needs to have a rethink on its entire creative process.
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I'm sure it is / will be possible for pro players but, From Software saying Elden Ring was a 30 hour game seems somewhat divorced from reality lololol.
My brother just gave me the best description of Palworld I've heard so far:
"It's like Pokemon but you play as Team Rocket, kidnapping Pokemon and making them work in factories or harvesting them for meat" lol.
I love the purity of Elden Ring.
No mtx, no preorder bonus save for the emote you get in game anyway, launch edition with tons of cool physical stuff at no extra cost.
Pure video game. Feels like this is getting rare at the AAA level.
Notice how nobody is mad at Elden Ring DLC price?
Cuz everyone trusts FromSoftware to deliver on that price.
Lot of pubs lost trust chasing short term profits over the years and now wonder why people lost faith.
I'm expecting a wave of cynical and shallow attempts from Western AAA devs to rip off Elden Ring that entirely miss the point of the game and focus on the wrong things.
Dragon's Dogma 2 reveals its microtransactions, which includes payments for fast travel locations, character re-designs, and more, debuting to "mostly negative" reviews on Steam as a result.
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Hi-Fi Rush shadow dropping robbed any opportunity for negativity.
Just allowed everybody to go try out the new thing instantly on Xbox Game Pass, going in with a totally blank state.
Game was able to speak for itself, to great effect imo.
At a press conference in Brussels, Microsoft President Brad Smith just announced ALL Xbox PC games will come to competing cloud service NVIDIA GeForce Now.
"NVIDIA now supports this deal."
Weird takes I've seen that I feel need debunking over Xbox.
- Phil musing on Nintendo was aspirational corpo speak, gently explaining why it was a bad idea without alienating the commenter.
- Calling Baldur's Gate 3 "second run" refers to the fact it's not launching on Xbox…
So are people mad at Microsoft over a digital Xbox but they ain't mad at consumers for literally giving zero fucks about discs. Valve knew it, Sony knows it, Apple and Google know it.
This is pure market demand in action.
I don't understand why people are getting angry about Xbox Game Pass Core lol.
It's literally the same as Xbox Live Gold, minus the very poor "free" games. Instead, newcomers get access to 25+ BETTER games.
SAME price as XBLG.
What's different? Brand? who cares.
Watch Dogs had no idea what it wanted to be tbh.
Wacky / cartoony while also dealing with some seriously dark subject matters comes off as shallow/pure shock value writing, undermines everything and feels inconsistent.
Watch Dogs should've taken itself more seriously IMO.
Helldivers 2 feels SO satisfying, crunchy bugs and juicy splatters. The Starship Troopers game we deserved but never got.
Sony's service game portfolio grows.
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sorry but people calling for Phil Spencer's resignation are way out of their depth. xbox is having record quarters repeatedly under his leadership.
is everything perfect? obv no. but please, get some perspective.
I interviewed PHIL SPENCER yesterday to discuss all things Xbox. 🤯
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For those who are curious who the chap in the Xbox Fable trailer is, it's UK national treasure Richard Ayoade, legendary comedian.
You may know him from this IT Crowd gif.
some xbox personalities sayin theyre gonna leave xbox or quit content creation etc.
NOT ME
i go down with the ship. like windows phone. ill turn the light off when yall are gone. as the last xbox writer / player left. 🫡
I've discovered and played more indies than i ever would have had it not been for Xbox Game Pass.
the argument that xgp only has value if it has constant non stop 500 million dollar games doesn't resonate with me.
Multiple sources tell me that Microsoft is laying off the entire internal customer support team(s) for ABK games, save a few.
MS will outsource the rest to external companies abroad.
ABK was one of the few games pubs with a high-quality internal customer support team.
I half wonder if some AAA publishers will see Elden Ring's performance and think "omg we need to make a difficult game too!!11"
... The difficulty really isn't the point tho. It's the hand-crafted world, the depth. It ain't aged super well, but Skyrim has similar qualities imo.