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Certainly none that's squeaky clean. It's always funny to watch people demonize Apple or Microsoft and promptly run into the arms of a company that's arguably worse, like Google, Lenovo or Samsung. Like some folks bought Google's 2010 "Android is the open alternative to the eeeeeevil Apple" sales pitch hook, line and sinker, and never stopped to question it in the decade since.
That would be a horrible idea. I'm not interested an an Amazon-like service for video games.
Last I saw they were sub 2 million subs I believe. It be funny if FFXI ended up out living the so called juggernaut of MMOs.
I know there's always been doom-saying about WoW, but when my wife and I were last on the game was in really hard shape. We moved on like everyone else has, just her and I with our daughters are seven subs they lost. There was an absolute tide of people leaving not long after we did, making me assume things got worse.
I would bet that MS has tried to buy Sega, even though Sega was originally an American company, I doubt they would ever sell to Microsoft.
But what about! Apple is among the worst offenders, but go ahead and miss when I said all megacorporations. There is no need to pretend do no evil google is not evil, or amazon work till you drop while I ride a dickship into low orbit, or samnsung lets have some insights.
ehhhh, definitely not what it used to be. Only reason its alive is because that entire genre is washed out with copy cats or companies looking for a quick cash grab (read New World). I'm trying to play, but I'm so freaking burnt out on it, it won't be long until I ditch the sub.
FFXI actually grew to 1.21 million subscribers last month while FFXIV is having ongoing issues. They were holding steady at right around 1 million before then.
Granted most those subs are own by 10 people with a bunch of alt for multi-boxing lol. When went back to it a couple years ago the LS was filled with alts. I was surprised to see so many people I played with 12 years ago only to find out they don't play anymore and gave their character to friends. Still was a lot of people playing I knew. I get the itch to play it but I just don't got the energy and time to commit to it like I did in my 20s.
Yes both scenario are terrible, having 10 different launcher store or Microsoft achieving to put them all on their banner.
While true, I don't think that completely explains the 20% jump in subscribers in such a short amount of time.
I know FFXI was a lot of the OG players first MMO. There was a huge exodus when WoW came out. I am sure a bunch of people went back to FFXI instead of FFXIV with the mass exodus of WoW going on.
I think having your own host with your own games will still exist, but because of the way everything is going with pricing only the well off will be able to afford it. The masses are going to have to use a streaming service.
You don't own those either. If Valve goes cloud all that's gone.Or, at least, start exploring my massive existing back-catalog of existing titles.
Man, who shit in your Cheerios this morning to create this image in your head? XD
Is it though, don't people on Game Pass as well as PSNow just download the games locally they want to play? If anything, it's moved further away from cloud.
I'm certainly not defending Apple; its App Store policies are restrictive, its labor practices still need improvement, and it isn't as vigilant about security as it should be, among other issues. But it's funny to watch people lambaste Apple while cheering for a chaebol so corrupt it bribed politicians to let its CEO out of prison so he could secure the winter Olympics. It's certainly good to offer serious, pointed criticism of companies; but "they're all equally bad" is dismissive hand-waving meant to avoid rethinking one's own choices.
Says the guy defending apple, a company with their budget isn't fixing anything but just paying lipservice so their fans can feel better about themselves. Their skullduggery goes further than your willing to admit, also the security part is laughable since they extra-judicially raid people they suspect of breaching their secrecy.
Maybe obviously, but it could take a certain time because it will go against a different force of low lag and no compressed image signal of local hardware and on local hardware you can still have the gamepass/PSNow monthly fee, but the local user paying for the hardware and electricity.
It isn't obvious, its the new doom and gloom of the pc industry. What soar doesn't understand is that there will always been money, market, and desire to provide an ownership experience.
There is no end in sight to our current inflation issues, and I believe we'll see high-end GPU's reaching prices we used to see of computers 30-40 years ago. I think a high-end GPU will easily be $10k, and that's not including anything else on a system.
I don't know, share holders care about profit from a year to year basis. They arent interested in long term dominance by putting competitors out of business. Besides selling consoles themselves arent really making them much money, but selling copies to every console will make money
That will always exist, but it could become extremely niche (think music or tv series, movies, etc...).
Yeah, somehow I don't see Microsoft trying to make Candy Crush an Xbox exclusive any time soon, and AB doesn't really have anything that could suddenly triple their console sales, what this deal does is get Microsoft a huge talent pool, and a shatload of IP to play with.
Microsoft is about Xbox... this won't close for a year. So sure the next Call of Duty will be on all platforms, with a small chance of a timed exclusive. After this closes lol ya games like Call of Duty are going to be PC/Xbox exclusives. No way MS doesn't treat every Activision franchise as a Xbox title going forward from the sale close.