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@General_Disarray Okay, this is getting boring now. Toodles!

@MikeOrator I'm here to inform you that your request has fallen on deaf ears. Grass. Touch it.

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I rarely use my PS5, but I still like having cloud saves. There's just no way I can justify keeping this. It's truly a shame that PS is a brand I have loved so much in the past, and they have just become my absolute last choice for gaming over the past few years.

Just a friendly reminder that the gaming industry is just a gigantic oligopoly, and we were all screwed from the very beginning.

Oh, boy. Console warrior cringe. My favorite!

Thank God. Hopefully I can use the Atmos license I already have for PC. The Tempest 3D audio is absolute rubbish. It's the one feature of the PS5 I think is just honestly bad.

I mean, this thing is dumb, but it's so dumb that I can't help but kinda love it. We are at the crossroads of ambition and stupidity, and I'm always here for that.

Oh, cool. An actual RPG. I like those.

I mean, welcome to Steam. This is a thing we do.

ATVI is being pulled from the stock exchange prior to open on Monday. MS and the CMA have obviously agreed to something, and the FTC probably isn't getting any emergency relief. The FTC had seven months to think about this, and utterly blew it.

What really changes is that Sony is now in the ring with an extremely hostile competitor, as opposed to the seemingly docile and complacent one last gen. This deal has now been tested and proven to boost competition, and that's exactly what is going to happen. It won't happen overnight, but MS will now be taking control of all ABK marketing once the current deals expire, and that alone is going to be a huge bump for Xbox. You want to see the new CoD announcements; you tune into Xbox 'not E3'.

@NEStalgia The good news for me is that AI mostly sucks at accounting and taxes, because it has a very difficult time differentiating accounting rules and tax situations. The nobles will never replace me! Well, they might, but probably not.

WHOA, WHOA. HOL UP.

Snu snu with a bear? I mean, I'll try anything at least twice. Where do I sign up?

Money is one problem, the actual predators on Roblox are another thing entirely. I've kept a pretty close eye on the content my daughter gets into on that thing, and I have definitely caught her chatting with what I'm pretty sure were probably sexual predators based on the things she was being asked. After that I basically felt no other option than to just lock the parental settings down as hard as possible. Which basically just disables half the game, so now she just complains that she can't play certain games with her friends. But oh well.

@Rmg0731 Do you sincerely think MS Rewards is them just giving stuff away for free? MS Rewards is just an elaborate advertising racket and encourages people to use Bing to drive user engagement. You search on Bing, they collect advertising data and sell it, then give you pennies of the dollars they got paid. It's how Google makes money as well, Google just has no incentive to reward you for using Google because they're already the market leader by a country mile.

@Ralizah We've talked about this several times. We buy Nintendo game almost always day one, because the bottom is basically never going to fall out of the price tag. However, I have yet to pay full price for a single PS5 exclusive, because I can basically count on PS+ or just deep sales within six months to a year. The only brand that doesn't destroy their own value is Nintendo. The others just destroy it in different ways.

@NEStalgia He's just on a never-ending quest for Booty... In the form of... Gaming studios.

@UltimateOtaku91 Right, I think there really has to be a way to show actual real intent, and I just don't think this email does. MS is obviously in a position to spend Sony out of business, but honestly, that wouldn't benefit them. The same way a regulator can't try to block a merger, a regulator can try to force divesture of assets. If for example Sony did for whatever reason go bust, the governments could then start trying to legally force MS to shrink its gaming division by selling something like ABK or Bethesda, because they wouldn't really have a viable competitor at that point. This trial here has nothing to do with MS's size. This trial is only exploring whether this merger would decrease or increase competition. There are arguments for both sides of it, it's up to the judge to determine which is greater or lesser.

@Tharsman This has been the really interesting part of this trial. There's been a lot of emails where you can tell that the higher ups at MS don't really agree with one another. When Bethesda was bought, we heard things like "First, better or best" then we got "case by case" then we got "We bought Bethesda to make exclusives for Xbox". I really do think comms like this shed some light into why consumers have been confused, because there really isn't a set-in stone playbook and they're basically still arguing about it at HQ. Sort of like Phil said the other day, there was talks to make Minecraft Dungeons exclusive to PC and Xbox, but here we are today, and it isn't. Because those talks obviously didn't end with exclusive to Xbox and PC.

@Sakai I mean, I genuinely don't get it. The second someone calls me a 'fanboy', I basically know I can instantly disregard anything they say as nonsense. I literally don't even own an Xbox. Lol

@GodofCapcom Oh, look. It's that really angry guy I laugh at in the comments because he likes to talk tough on the internet.

@UltimateOtaku91 No, this was the same email, as far as I understand. This is just the unsealed version what was previously redacted. I might be wrong, but to my knowledge this is that same email. This has all be a lot to keep up with, after all.

@UltimateOtaku91 The judge basically disregarded this email entirely, as it's irrelevant. This was the email brought fourth to her in the nonsensical "gamers trial" and she basically told them all to go home.

@Fiendish-Beaver Yeah, I listened to the entire testimony and that's the way I heard it. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I'd stick to my guns that was how it was laid out. I don't think a full transcript actually gets released, it's mostly just hear say at this point, because it's a lot to take in and no one really jotted it all down word for word. Unless we want to make an attempt at stealing the courts own recordings of the trial. LIKE NINJAS.

@Grumblevolcano Right, and I don't disagree with you on Squares end of business, I'm just also saying I don't doubt Phil's testimony on this one. I don't think it's wait and see if he's lying, I think it's just true.

@Tharsman I think Grumbles point here is that Phil made the claim that games aren't necessarily exclusive to Sony, as much as they are excluded from Microsoft specifically. Like what we saw with VIIR, there was basically an 18 month window that it was PS only, then came to PC. But the agreement could include something akin to Nintendo being fine after x amount of years, but no Xbox ever.

@Grumblevolcano I have actually given a lot of consideration to the fact that 7 Remake could possibly come to a more powerful Nintendo later down the road. Really, though. I don't see any reason to not believe Phil's testimony here, because there's surely evidence on their end to back it up or Sony would be swinging from rafters saying it isn't true. This is REAL court. People might not like what they're saying, but in reality, it's probably the truth or at least a slightly modified version of it, on all parties part.

@Neither_scene Or maybe not even time gated. As far as we can tell, FFVIIR is not time gated on Xbox, it's just gated, period. One would think this would have been possible with a game like Starfield, as well.

It's so tacky, and I love it!

@NEStalgia Nope. They run as fast those little whale legs can carry them.

@NEStalgia They called it Marathon because it's a race to the in game shop!

Imagine how much cooler this would be if it was just a modern remake of well... The actual Marathon games.

@NEStalgia I can't wait until the PS4 is retro enough that we get a PS4 mini console, and the only two games it comes with is Knack 1 and 2.

I've enjoyed my seven months with PS+ Premium, so far. I wouldn't tell you I use it every day, or even every month, but I've got my $90 out of it already. I'm indifferent enough with it that I genuinely can't decide if I want to keep it or leave it. Part of me likes it, the other part says it's not worth signing up again. Decisions, decisions.

@NEStalgia Well, I guess in reality, it did also release on PS3 in Japan only, so really, I'm sure there had to be some design choices to accommodate that. I'm gonna check it out sooner or later. I'm a total Star Ocean Stan, so I might even hold my nose and finish it, just to say I did.

@NEStalgia I got brave and picked up Integrity and Faithlessness for $10 last week. It's the only main entry I've never played. I'm kinda scared, though. Lol

@Nalverus Doesn't bother me. I don't really care who bags what exclusive, I'll go buy the thing to play it on if I want it bad enough. Gamers that lash out with some sort of righteous indignation against whomever they believe is the evil corporation, is genuinely one of the most unfathomably stupid things to me.

I love all the times when people are like, MS can pay to get big exclusives too, and then they possibly do, and then people get big mad. Lolol

@Sil_Am And you've already written two comments about how my reasonable, yet ill feelings on a game you like upsets you, so I guess your agenda is being mad. That's fine, really.

@Cordyceps Ahh you know, it's alright. I mean, I'm glad I was able to try the demo, because SE is cool in that regard and actually still offers proper demos. If anything I was able to kill the curiosity, but if anything at least people are excited about FF again. I'll take that for what it is.

@tallythwack I've literally never seen The Godfather, or Goodfellas, or Scarface, or Schindler's List, you name it, I ain't seen it. I just don't have a particularly long attention span, actual medical condition. So if my hands aren't busy, or I'm not reading, I have a difficult time paying attention to things. When cutscenes are too frequent or run too long at a time, I just can't stay focused on the game. I love stories, I just sort of need them presented in a format that's not quite a movie. And again, I'm not trying to take anything away from anyone else.

I wasn't sold on the game, but I tried the demo and confirmed it, which is part of what the demo is for. Which is a shame to me because I've been playing this franchise since I was a child. But it's evolved into something that truly just isn't for me now. Oh, well, such is life.