Okay, normally my post about games and this industry are pretty unbiased as I really try and see the perspective of all sides. First of let me say I've owned every console under the sun but have remained a PC gamer my entire life. This blog is in no way shape or form a console war, or siding with any console. Its just truths that I think some if not most could agree with.
The Xbox One reveal was how I anticipated it, I posted on twitter and Facebook that the reveal would be Entertainment first and gaming second. Honestly though I didn't think it would be that bad, but it was. This reveal was focused on TV and Sports while revealing little to no gaming at all. Oh, and let us not forget Call of Duty.
Is Microsoft just a ridiculously smart company or are they just slowly putting the final nail(s) in the coffin. Well, I personally think that its your fault, yeah you, the Xbox Gamer, the one who claims Xbox is and all that ever will be gaming. Why wouldn't Microsoft capitalize on our stupidity as a community. Xbox has dropped so many exclusives from their library in place of "timed exclusive DLC" and IT WORKED for them! Do you guys think they don't check statics, online usage and number? The top 3 Xbox 360 games are Call of Duty, Halo, Gears of War. So what do they do? First off they literally beat the hell out of Halo and keep it going even after Bungie decided to leave. They realized that Gears was stale by the third one but with the name they could make a prequel (and it worked). Finally, the juggernaut of Sales was and always will be Call of Duty. Microsoft realized that all they need is Call of Duty, but Activision isn't stupid and they wouldn't give Microsoft the exclusivity of the game so Microsoft paid them a ridiculous amount of money to release Map Packs, and guess what...IT WORKED.
All the Xbox Gamers I have grown up with, and have played games with only really play Gears, Halo, and Call of Duty. In normal circumstances a company can not sustain with just 3 games but because of Call of Duty Microsoft can! They can even go on showing a new IP and having almost no one care (quantum something), They have put themselves in such an amazing position because they own the majority of a game that surpasses every game sold every year. They don't need to care about Gamers anymore, they don't need to worry about new IP's, hell they don't even really need to make games at all. They can simply switch over to TV and Sports because as long as Call of Duty is the number one selling game on their console, they really don't need to worry about us anymore, the core that established them as a formidable company in terms of gaming and internet service, no longer caring about anything but TV and Sports.
As a community we should withhold, and really show them that the core gamers are the foundation of their company. Without us, they are nothing and should be shown that. Why continue to feed your money to a company that clearly shows you they do NOT CARE ABOUT YOU. They charge you to pay for a service that ENABLES you to play games online. A service that is ALREADY PART OF THE GAME IN GENERAL. They charge you to watch Netflix, although you already pay Netflix. They rely on you picking up a small amount of IPs in big numbers to sustain their profits. If not for Call of Duty being so competitive on Xbox and everyone trying to be a "Pro Gamer" on Xbox I honestly think Microsoft would've remained as humble as they did with the first Xbox, and the first few years of the 360.
I have no intention to buy a Xbox One, I know a lot of people are saying wait til E3, but I'll say this now far before E3. I guarantee we will see maybe 5 IPs (new and old), little footage, a price, and Xbox Live features. That is my prediction. I can't feel bad for how Xbox Gamers are being treated, because anytime I think about it I can honestly just blame them. Supporting a company like you do Microsoft, always sticking up for them even when you know they are in the wrong, making excuses for everything from greed to reveals. All of it, is part of their plan, as long as they have you..they are going to only get worse. So go spend your 500+ on your Xbox One but for me its more like Xbox None (hehe).
Thanks for reading! If you have an opinion please discuss.
Oh, and yes I put Xbox Gamers, because the fanboys for Xbox have put themselves in their own category all together.
We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.
This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.
On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.
Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...
Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken
Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.
There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods
There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.
On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.
lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.
The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.
Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.
Par for Bethesda.
LOL people are actually expecting massive improvements or something? From Bethesda?? the same people who released Skyrim multiple times and the all look like shit? THAT Bethesda? are people for real?
The ps5 version doesn't change a ton but from my small playtime it's enough to make me want to replay it just to have it running at 60.
A side note to this my PS4 version no longer boots after it's "update" so I guess that's what it feels like to own a Bethesda game on PC
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.
Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.
The Locust trilogy concluded with Gears of War 3. I don’t get how Gears 4 and 5 are “woke” .
Too be far to the Xbox gamers, although they are a problem they are dwarfed by the Call of Duty gamers. These are "gamers" (and I use the term loosely) that got into gaming only for Call of Duty and only because their friends do it. They are the casuals of the Xbox world and they are responsible for probably half the problem when it comes to Call of Duty. Now of course, Call of Duty wouldn't have become as big as it has without the core gamers, but with as many complaints as I've seen about it over the years I find it hard to believe that there are as many core gamers still supporting it.
I of course could be wrong, and the core gamers are buying it even after complaining.
But the blame for Xbox One begins and ends with Microsoft. Yes, the unapologetic supporters of anti-consumerism are to blame too, but Microsoft has wanted the Xbox One from the very beginning, they just weren't able to realize it until now.
I find it sad that anyone thought Microsoft weren't the anti-consumer, money grubbing company they've always been right from the start. Microsoft do not care about consumer rights in the slightest. They've always led the charge in anti-consumer ideas on consoles since they entered the industry so I don't understand how anyone can be surprised.
Let's hope that the backlash seen online will translate to actual action against the Xbone this time. We can only hope though.
First of all, good article! Now, the PC is also my console of choice seconded by my PS3, and until the Kinect came out, the 360. Yes it's true that the majority of Xbox gamers play these games in particular. Now the Halo and Gears fans I can understand as these to games have their own world and lore that can be fun to discover. "Crap of Duty" does not. The first games came out as a response to EA's early Medal of Honor games and copying the formula while at the same time improving some aspects, had some commercial success. The game changer as we all now was the first MW. A great game, with a good story and somewhat interesting characters. what followed were not bad games by all means, they were just over-hyped and have been ever since. This franchise is a clear example of "Don't hate the game, hate the player", because the player was the one that bought MW2, MW3, Black Ops even though roughly nothing changed. This industry like some many others is shaped by its customers, in other words "WE ARE WHAT WE PLAY".
@ Everyone above. When you launch a system and give a media briefing not all information comes out at once. If you look at CES for example they announce products but not all information on the product is available until a later date. Before you make your decision remember one thing Xbox had to come out swinging showing off the console first. After all, when you go to a dealer to purchase a car you have to know what kind of car you want and what it can do before you make your decision. That leads to getting the keys to start the car of your choice. As of right now Xbox has that Porsche that will make you want to get the keys (which is software) to start that car. When I saw Sony PS4 conference they gave me keys (which is software) but no car to drive, just features that I can plainly find in any device. Also to all who nitpick about the games. Remember for years people have plain out claimed that Xbox 360 has fallen off on new IP's. So MS stating that they are changing that with Xbox One is it really a bad thing? I saw at sony show more multiplatform games then I did exclusives. Guess what all of those games are also coming to XBox One and many were shown via cutscenes. Your choice for a system should be the one that caters to you period. Right Now I Like Remedy, I like Turn 10, I like 343, EA has always delivered and so on. I also love Xbox live and a few apps that I use. I get that everyone wanted to see games more then the system's functionality. I also agree that they should have shown off a little more. I disagree with the wave of hate because they actually told you days before the show that the story will be told in 2 events. Right now Xbox one is unveiled and the functionality of there TV elements as well. Xbox has said that E3 is all about games. Meaning less talk at a Gamers show about tv and more about games. It is the competition(Sony with PS4) who will have the opposite effect because they have to show the console, how it will work with games and at the same time share space for psvita and ps3. So why not wait till E3 to see how you feel, take that with what they have showcased and it if does not impress you, by all means continue feeding the media and create what is truly killing gaming.