I will keep playing Xbox games, they are my favourite after all, and with that I'll keep my gamepass sub
Not particularly confidant in its future. There's just too much uncertainty, they need to be more clear what's actually going on. But it also seems it's hard to take what leadership say as trustworthy.
To be fair, changing the Xbox banner on twitter costs basically nothing and they only just started doing it lol
Keeping Game Pass, just won't buy 3rd party stuff on the platform anymore. I did sell my secondary Xbox Series X I got for travel. Not abandoning it, just waiting out whatever this period is. Thanks to my ROG ally engaging with the ecosystem is easier on the go.
I got banned for a clearly tongue in cheek Ex-Box post. Completely wild.
Back when the rumors started in early January multiplatform talk was banned from the thread, yeah.
He said he hasn't heard anything but him and Rand both said they expect it at the showcase in June.
If they show Perfect Dark I hope they are 100% sure the game is coming out.
I don't think I count as a "regular" given I mostly lurk, but pretty poor. I have 0 faith in the current leadership team between their public performance in their roles, the leaked/disclosed documents we've gotten from the CMA and FTC cases over ABK, and the recent rumours swirling around Xbox. Matt Booty getting promoted while their first party continues to have severe issues under the sixth year of his tenure is just one example of many for why I think things will not meaningfully improve anytime soon. My expectations for their next hardware revision are that rumours about them adopting some sort of ridiculous OEM plan are real, they'll continue to gut or shutdown studios under their banner as they seek to juice their profitability to justify the investment put into them by MS corporate to purchase ABK, and once hardware sales collapse next gen and their doomed (imo) mobile storefront plan flops like their phone line did we'll see GP subs collapse and the service itself will be severely cut back in various ways.
Xbox has been my primary platform since the OG but I've also been a multi-console gamer my entire life. I've owned every console of the current big 3 at launch from the Wii onward (didn't get PS3 at launch or it would be since the 360 onwards). The biggest change I could see in the future is a heavier investment in PC gaming. I was content to stick to Xbox as my primary even with plenty going multiplat since nothing changed for me as a gamer, but now, the water has been muddied and my trust in the vision is vastly lowered due to A. being unable to put faith in the vision as presented and B. the fact that the vision is unclear. Love it or hate it, Xbox has always done a good job presenting their vision and executing it (OG era was clear, "Dude Bro" era was clear, Kinect era was clear, TV, TV, TV era was clear, GamePass era was clear, this current era is not, at least not yet). The issue is now that, I have a hard time trusting what Xbox says anymore and I'm not sure what will rectify that… I understand all the decisions made and everything that has led to this, I'm not calling for Phil or Sarah's job (Matt tho…) but even if you give them all the benefit of the doubt again, I can't trust MS because the things that led to the axing of Tango, AA and the others are the current issues plaguing this industry and capitalism as a whole and we seem sooooo far off from any solution to those issues. I plan on saving up for an upgraded PC and seeing what the industry has in store for the next few years before deciding where exactly my money will be spent but right now it's either Xbox or Valve in a few years with PS and Nintendo remaining primarily exclusive machines.
Feels like Jez knows SoD3 is showing up at the showcase. He did tease it previously.
We've come to the point where if PD doesn't show up it will be worrisome. I think it would be very smart to give an update on all elusives.
Something like Fable last year if it shows up.
I think they need full gameplay avowed type trailer or a 5 minute demonstration at this point. The fable angle ain't gonna cut it and playground earned a lot more grace by the people and the trailer was funny so lil nuggets of points there.
How would an ad-based tier even work? What are we gonna get ads in the middle of sessions?
A gameplay trailer like Avowed last year would be great. We'll see if it was actually on track for 'gameplay deep dive'.
Well, I would assume no one on here would be using it considering the visceral response to ads, but I would think before the play session.
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