One Angry Gamer "If you've grown tired of all the BS that has been flung around lately by the outlets and video game writers that you used to respect – and there were quite a few I used to respect, including John Walker of Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Leigh Alexander of Gamasutra – then you're probably a bit downtrodden at the social justice warrior movement to basically make gamers leave the gaming community. It makes no sense and it has no end-goal other than to antagonize and intimidate (which is quite ironic given that they're all against harassment, trolling and abuse). Nevertheless, there's hope. Various communities from 4chan have finally stopped bickering amongst themselves to work together to help all of gaming."
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
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.
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" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
I'd support them, we moan on about sites like Kotaku on here I don't see why N4G hasn't done this before. Least we would be contributing to something and at least try to put an end to it.
Just think these guys are getting paid to review video games then lie about them if they wish while collecting gaming goodies along the way like press kits and rare collectibles.
However I don't like how they are using Vivian James as a mascot. Corruption has been around way before this whole thing surrounding Vivian James, 4chan and Zoe Quinn
And to think this is what idiots like LS should be focusing on, not disrupting our gaming fun! All hackers or whatever should focus on exposing suspicious sites, imagine how fun it would be to find out just how much certain companies bribe reviewers.
This topic annoys me seriously.
Characters in video games are based on fantasy, of course they don't represent or properly portray any real group of people because they are not real.... they are fantasy and would be impossible to live up to in most cases.
fantasy Like this has existed for eons in stories, plays, movies, tv shows, legends, and games. There has never been a proven link of th effecting the behavior of the audience and to suggest that beating women in games to death will devalue women to the gamer in real life is just like saying that violence in games = violence in real life and we all know that is untrue.
If these people want to see real people who are properly fleshed out and don't conform to offensive tropes then they should go to the mall... and avoid people who actually fit those tropes pretty well.
Once you use the words SJW as a pejorative you lose me on your arguement.
Kotaku and their friends think that mocking us is going to end all this and make it just go away little by little. All it's doing is make us bigger, stronger, and angrier. The longer they push us the more it's going to hurt them when it comes to an end.
One of the latest tactics is contacting the companies and businesses that advertise on their sites and letting them know how they are being represented and what their audiences is being treated like. We have had several positive replies.