Best Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 3 minutes ago, Mercury33 said: Maybe I should try out FF14, they’re making it available again 🤔 Even 6 or so years ago it was the best MMO out and was so much fun. If you're remotely interested I'd give it a shot. 2 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: Party up with @Bacon This. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 I love FFXIV. But it isn't a WoW killer. WoW has just been killing itself for years now. And Shadowlands was huge at launch, but it did not retain subscribers mostly do to the massive content delays. And right now it is super awful for new players to join in. There is no adequate catch-up system in place for all of the "systems" Shadowlands has introduced. The next WoW expansion will still sell like hotcakes even if it is shit. Same with Diablo 4. It could be total shit but it won't matter. While XIV is great, many are jumping ship because they feel, as of now, it is the only option. They either jump on that boat for leave the MMO seas behind for good. I'd be willing to wager that there are even more of those than new XIV players. And for new XIV players, there are years of content that will be forever relevant as FF doesn't just toss out the old expansion when the new expansion comes out. And I view the matter of overloaded servers and holding sales of the game as a mark of incompetence rather than success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 Sure, I can play with people as long as they are on the Aether Data Center. But the shit is a single player game. I can't really play with new players outside of instanced content such as dungeons. Tho, my sub ends mid Feb. May not resub for a month or two cuz Elden Ring and then ELEX 2. Depends on what the patches bring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Pizza Hut is the best fast food pizza. It's greasy goodness. Ahem... I wonder if Microsoft will cancel Overwatch 2 and just let Blizzard put all that content being made for it into Overwatch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 If CoD turns Xbox exclusive I'd buy one not gonna lie. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameDadGrant Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 4 hours ago, JPDunks4 said: Well there is a much larger list of franchises, those were just the biggest that came to mind. Tony Hawk Crash Bandicoot World of Warcraft Spyro Dishonored Prey Wasteland Outer Worlds Hellblade Prey Evil Within Guitar Hero Geometry Wars Some more stuff I don't play, lol. That said, at least here there are more games that I at least *might* be interested in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameDadGrant Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 4 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said: Scarily enough there are people that I know that did exactly that (buying Switch for their pre-teens), and had them play Fortnite (and other FTP games). Many kids don't have their own laptop -- and Switch is relatively affordable relative to buying your kid a dedicated tablet/laptop. Oh I'm sure that has happened! And honestly it's not a bad choice. But obviously that's not the only reason Switch is selling as well as it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Extensive interview with Phil from Gene Park in the Washington Post Xbox CEO Phil Spencer discusses reviving old Activision games after Microsoft’s acquisition - The Washington Post WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM The newly minted Microsoft Gaming CEO discussed how his company plans to approach its new intellectual properties and its employees. Quote Spencer said he’s concerned about tech companies unfamiliar with the gaming industry barging in to the space, as opposed to the current, experienced competition against Nintendo and Sony. “They have a long history in video games," he said. “Nintendo’s not going to do anything that damages gaming in the long run because that’s the business they’re in. Sony is the same and I trust them. ... Valve’s the same way. When we look at the other big tech competitors for Microsoft: Google has search and Chrome, Amazon has shopping, Facebook has social, all these large-scale consumer businesses. ... The discussion we’ve had internally, where those things are important to those other tech companies for how many consumers they reach, gaming can be that for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Well Phil, if you keep throwing around your fat wallet like a traditional gaming company wouldn't, your established competitors will need more capital too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 15 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Extensive interview with Phil from Gene Park in the Washington Post Xbox CEO Phil Spencer discusses reviving old Activision games after Microsoft’s acquisition - The Washington Post WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM The newly minted Microsoft Gaming CEO discussed how his company plans to approach its new intellectual properties and its employees. ‘We want suffocating market share but don’t worry, we understand gaming’ lmao 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 That framing is interesting though, because it betrays how bearish they are on Windows/Surface and all of their other B2C offerings. If cloud enterprise is the next battlefield and your tentpole consumer products don’t have viable growth paths, what next? Well…. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 27 minutes ago, crispy4000 said: Well Phil, if you keep throwing around your fat wallet like a traditional gaming company wouldn't, your established competitors will need more capital too. this would piss me off, but imagine some kind of sony and amazon partnership and bezos acquires other big stuff for sony to put on playstation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 21 minutes ago, johnny said: this would piss me off, but imagine some kind of sony and amazon partnership and bezos acquires other big stuff for sony to put on playstation New World please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 An actual member of Congress has weighed-in: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firewithin Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 everybody knows its going to go through Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPDunks4 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Still think he uses CoD as a deterent from Sony trying to buy GTA exclusivity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Given that Phil Spencer is a huge Destiny fan, I wonder if he'll try and get Bungie back. Would Bungie want to keep their independence, or go back to Microsoft if the offer was big enough, and they were promised, "you seem to know what you're doing with Destiny, so just keep doing what you're, and we'll just help finance it" without interference like they had with Activision. If that were to happen though I would hope for the sake of Playstation users that it wouldn't go Xbox exclusive. It would be cool if Bungie was able to get support studios to help out again, and get a bigger budget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 4 minutes ago, JPDunks4 said: Still think he uses CoD as a deterent from Sony trying to buy GTA exclusivity. MS just trying to placate Sony until the MS Take Two deal goes through. (Joking) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, JPDunks4 said: It is going to be absolutely devastating when Phil gets on stage in a few years and announces the newest CoD is a one year timed-Exclusive to Windows/Xbox 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPDunks4 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 This is a good point and the wording is suspicious 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 15 minutes ago, JPDunks4 said: This is a good point and the wording is suspicious Desire is the key word, as though Phil can’t simply keep it there if he wants! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Did Phil pat the Sony executives on the head and reassure them that they're all "such good boys"? Because that's exactly what it sounds like! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 I hope this leads to a revival of Tenchu and Prototype 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 3 minutes ago, Spork3245 said: I hope this leads to a revival of Tenchu and Prototype Ohh… hmm… What if MSFT lets Arkane make a new Tenchu…!? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 The Call of Duty reference is so delightfully, deliberately, corporately vague that only Warzone could remain on the PlayStation and it would still be "technically" true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 PS5 is Sony's GameCube Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 16 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said: PS5 is Sony's GameCube Because it’s only available in one terrible color at launch? 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 9 minutes ago, Spork3245 said: Because it’s only available in one terrible color at launch? @stepee boo this man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 GameCube purple is iconic and beautiful 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 3 minutes ago, Chris- said: @stepee boo this man Agreed, the white rules. And it matches my Quest 2! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Just now, stepee said: Agreed, the white rules. And it matches my Quest 2! No, I mean he denigrated this classic: 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Just now, Chris- said: No, I mean he denigrated this classic: I also love the purple! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 I loved the gamecube, great little system! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 2 hours ago, JPDunks4 said: Still think he uses CoD as a deterent from Sony trying to buy GTA exclusivity. Keyword is existing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 The GameCube was the last Nintendo system I loved. Great memories. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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