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@Bobobiwan Unfortunately, being exec doesn’t really require you to be master of the subject for the thing you’re in charge of… You just have to know how to buy companies and make money. This dude is unfortunately very skilled in that since he co-found 2k and was president of the publishing label before he join Amazon in 2018.

I was very much looking forward to this game, but Ubisoft continues to neglect Steam players by no releasing this day 1 on the platform... So, I won't be purchasing it now, or in 4 months when they decide to finally put it for sale on steam due to poor PC sales.

@crossbit "That, and with the horrors that Disney continues to enact on the IP, the games are practically the last bastion of the franchise at this point."

I wouldn't say that the games are the last bastion of the franchise... The animated stuff is still very good

@Randinator123 Nope. They are still most likely still using those IP… Toy for Bob still a very cryptic image up on their website that may be pointing to a new Spyro game.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner This would have came to PS… This hypothetical Crash 5 cancellation was probably even before Microsoft had even announced they was buying Activision. This was something they started working on after Crash 4 in 2020, and probably got cancel 2021 and forced the team to start working on Crash Team rumble.

@Grumblevolcano Nah. There is probably enough Yoshida fanboys that will pick this up over God of War.

@Jacko11 If Driveclub was better than either Forza… Then we would still playing the game and looking forward to Driveclub 3, but we’re not. Both the franchise and studio is dead cause it was indeed not better than Forza.

@Coolmusic AH. I haven’t seen twisted metal… So I didn’t mention it. I personally only mentioned things I’ve seen myself.

@LifeGirl Detective Pikachu was good. There was the first couple seasons of the Witcher. Arcane, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, and Castlevania. Idk if Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves since that technically not a video game… Was the Warcraft movie liked? I don’t remember, I just know it made almost half a billion back. There was also the recent Ubisoft animated show

I would say that video game adaptations have definitely improved and we get more W now than L.

@pharos_haven Growth vs profitability

@Pigrotto @Sequel I’m also haven’t bought it due to not being on steam.

It crazy that studios haven’t realized that not releasing on Steam is the dumbest decision you could ever do… It like only releasing on Xbox, and not PlayStation as well.

And tbh… Even if it come to Steam, I probably won’t buy it or play it (unless I get it for free like control). I don’t want Epic sloppy seconds.

@Oram77 Large publishers/devs already don’t offer their games day one on game pass

This is going to be upset the people like having the precise control over their party. But BioWare probably have the numbers showing the most people didn't do that or cared.

@Nem Yup! Me too... Why spend hour customizing my main character then swap around to other characters in the middle of combat

Man… I forgot this was coming to PC. Can’t wait to finally play it!!

@RagnarLothbrok The future wasn't bright for them had they not gone into VR. Their rep was basically destroyed after The Order, and Deformers wasn't going to save the studio... Lone Echo at least kept the studio a household name in VR while console gamers mocked them for The Order.

Not surprising, they haven't released anything or shown anything since Lone Echo 2. Then they got hit with layoffs... On top of that, the sale for the Quest 3 don't look to great. The most recent rumored sale number put the headset at 1 million. It should have at least been at 2-3 million by now.

@Flaming_Kaiser 3 years is a very long time wait for someone to do something.

@WhiteRabbit I said good not great. But they did give plenty of massive visual overhauls for their games free of charge.

@Losermagnet Larian CEO has been very vocal about all the lays off affecting the game industry... Notably the Hasbro one that happened right before Christmas last year that completely whipped out the team that help make BG3.

@Losermagnet Unfortunately, Hasbro has probably burnt all their bridges with Larian. So, there will most likely be no more Wizard of the Coast partnerships.

@colonelkilgore The Xbox Series launch was pretty good. They had a lot of momentum going from the Xbox One X launch into the Series X launch. They were really pushing a consumer first approach... All the accessories from the One work, flawless back compact, free upgrades on games, ton of new studios, no $70 games... etc. It just that the years following that launch hasn't been great... Everything started going downhill with Halo Infinite then they became stagnant with the ABK purchase.

While I was never a continuous subscriber to their magazine (Curse being a teenager and kid with no income) ... They were my main source for gaming information from 2006 to 2012. I still have all my magazines. I remember going through the magazines and writing down all the name of the game I wanted for Christmas to hand to my parents.

Between this and the closure of the Xbox 360 marketplace... The era of what made me a gamer is dying. Which is fitting as my interest in gaming is also winding down.

@Daleaf And in hind sight was a smart thing. Licensing IP are expensive and aren’t worth the investment unless you hit it out of the park sales wise. Considering at the time of that deal Microsoft was mostly focused on Xbox/PC/Game Pass… Realistically, they would have probably never really made their money back, and Disney/Marvel would have forced them to go multi platform. Plus you don’t want to build a subscription service off licensed IP. That what hurt Netflix when companies decided to pull all their licensed content of the platform to start their own streaming services. Microsoft would have spent years making licensed Spider Man games for them to up and vanish after the license agreement expired.

@The_Wailing_Doom Nope. Bungie was fine with being purchased by Microsoft. Microsoft wasn’t willing to pay the ridiculously high price that bungie was asking for… They considered them a “high burn-rate risk”. Luckily for Bungie, a sucker is born every day

Not even Microsoft wanted bungie back… So that should tell you something 🤷

@AdamNovice That if we still have an Xbox when Marathon decides to show up again…

@StrickenBiged There quite a few developers that big, but it mostly independent companies. A lot of that bloat with Bungie probably comes from the fact they were independent for a while, so was managing their own self-publishing and marketing, Internal IT, Servers, merchandising/store front... etc.

@BearsEatBeets That why Bungie kept jumping around from investor to investor. They went from Activision to Net ease to Sony. But you need that many employees to keep a live service game running, to pump major DLC out every year.

7th gen was crazy. The gaming industry was firing on all cylinders, and no matter what platform you got. You were getting some fantastic legendary games.

@PuppetMaster “ The characters / setting / atmosphere clearly doesn't look Soulslike”

You don’t need this to be soul like… Tell that to 100s of soul like we’ve gotten over the last decade.

“ There's no stamina bar”

There is a stamina bar… have you not actually watched game play?

But the 3 “estus flask” health thing js very souls like.

@PuppetMaster There will be other souls like elements. It not just the world… also just cause you change the combat, that doesn’t stop the fact that everything else surrounding it isn’t soul like.

Why would I mention the other games? My comment was to just correct you about PBZ.

@GilgaMax96 It most likely is since it also releasing on mobile.

@PuppetMaster Phantom Blade Zero look like just another soul like…And the game director even state that they took inspiration from Fromsoftware game for their game, so mentioning that game doesn’t exactly help your case.

@UltimateOtaku91 You make what sells and makes profit. With all the restrictions that china has on gaming, you can’t generally just throw ideas at the wall and hope they stick. They need a guarantee return on development. That generally why all the Chinese publishers have spent so much money on western studios. It leads to more verified games releasing in china, and publishers don’t have to worry about their studios going belly up if china announces more restrictions.

@NEStalgia Booth Babes never went away. So there is no reviving needed. Asian countries are the places that still do it, so it makes sense for them to show in china.

@Xeno_Aura You don't exactly need a fairly good GPU. People have been playing VR on potato PC for the last decade. Steam Deck will probably easily handle most of the lighter games like Beat Saber, Job simulator... etc If you are expecting to play Half Life Alyx or sims then no the Steam Deck wouldn't handle that well.

You can find plenty of videos of Steam Deck running VR. The real issue is that setup to get it running is not going to worth it.

@rjejr "And who names a game w/ a $ at the end"

Fairgame$ is developed by Haven Studio, a studio founded by Jade Raymond and a bunch of other ex-Ubisoft developers. The Creative Director for the game is an ex-watch dog 1 & 2 developer, so that will explain memey $ at the end of the name... Cause early 2010 meme culture is totally still hip with the kids... XD XD $?

The game look pretty, and all. But I have grown sick of the Breath of the Wild aesthetic the WuWa and a ton of other recent Gacha have gone for. It was cool when Genshin did it... But it now played out. ZZZ was a nice breath of fresh air. Can't wait for the next 20 something clone of that...

@KoopaTheGamer Splintered Fate is excellent. I’ve been playing through it on my M4 iPad Pro, and it definitely a great hades rogue lite. I just don’t know if I would play $30 for it tho. Maybe $20 max, $15 on sale… etc

I loved how much attention TMNT has gotten in the gaming industry over the last 4 years, but where is the mature TMNT stuff for the older fans? Wasn’t we supposed to be getting a game based off The Last Ronin graphic novel?

@TruestoryYep Yeah. I enjoy Eurojank as much as the next guy, and they were kings of Eurojank. But I never understood how they survived a day past Gothic.

Give it a day, and most people won't even remember this studio once the news articles are over.

It sad that people are losing their job, but nothing of value was really lost...

@rjejr This is the first time I heard someone compare ZZZ to “Astral chain”.

Everyone and myself included have been comparing it more to Persona, especially Persona 4, with the whole y2k aesthetic and focus on CRTs.

@Nem This doesn't really mean anything. A studio came work on more than one game at a time.

This comment section is how you know the developers made a good guy. People only get this butt hurt when others are having fun and enjoying something they dislike

@rjejr the last time I checked… They had 5k employees across 9 locations. How many are actually working on the games. Idk.

That probably also why they moved away from the open world with HSR and ZZZ. And went back to a much more limited scope. Some will say that also why there so little actual “gameplay” in ZZZ

@Malaise It also help that they’re easily accessible. Like it or not, not everyone has a PS5 or a decent PC, but everyone definitely has a mobile phone. Mix that in with the massive performance increase we’ve seen from mobile chip over the last couple years. These game have become the go to for anyone slightly interested in mobile gaming due to the high quality content and optimization it receives on mobile.

@Dalamar RE should have ended after 4… Then we wouldn’t gotten 5 and 6, and all the other random nonsense they’ve given us. I still don’t consider 7 and 8 RE games.

@Dalamar They killed the studio years ago…

@Splat Even with how cheesy that game is. I boot it up on my pc at least once a year.