Many reports leading up to the beginning of April had placed Microsoft to finally announce the Xbox 720 by the end of April.
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Agreed. Blizzard recently banned a college Overwatch 2 player who's dependent for saying "shit." Pretty harsh.
How rediculas really. You can't say a word that's allowed in most PG films and prime time TV but the game is based around killing the enemy team using guns, explosives etc.
It's just backwards.
What your talking about is called block list
In 2006 a spaceship dropped of the playstation 3/xbox 360 i say that that generation was the last great gen with game functions/tech that has yet to comeback
Anyhow the playstation 3 if you block listed a id they could not talk to you in chatroom with either text or voice. But that was pre mind fucked 2018 when people were more human than sheep.
But hey gta 6 is coming out billion dollar budget without a single player custom character creator and without singeplayer coop off/online something saints row 1-3 had on the xbox 360.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I genuinely get a bit worried sometimes when a friend says something that could be offensive In a party
Because I have no trouble believing some bans would happen when in a private party for saying something wrong
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
They can form a company if they want, they are just as jobless as if "Microsoft had left them as 3rd party".
"MIcrosoft leaves Bethesda do what they know how to do best" ... close! Oh the irony ....
(Citation from a week old article)
I think Microsoft and other game publishers are letting people go because they think ai will replace them. Doesn’t matter how much profit they make. They were always going to be let go.
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
Rumor has the next Xbox reveal May 21st, could be the always on rumor was a smokescreen for used game passes, which people wouldn't have an issue with, as long as the console isn't DRM.
M$ agenda is having their cablebox720 DRM, isn't XBL enough??
I thought XBL was ripoff for not being able to play the game i own online, but with "Always On" crap you'll have to pay and stay connected to play the SP. PS4 will rule the next gen for sure.
Xbox meh ill pass they can keep kinect focus garbage only idiots will give them a second chance with all the bs they did wrong (RROD fiasco, paying for online, kinect lies and garbage, few exclusive ips to mention, etc....) but Sony is doing things right and are about to take the industry by storm!!!! Lets get it!!!!!
sony is definetly the try hards this gen.. so what does that tell u ? that there taking microsoft seriously this gen there big heads have came back to reality...which is only good for us the gamers.. until they fix the free online an make it comparable to xbl im not interested i had both systems last gen an i never used my ps3 for gaming besides for my guitar hero stuff casue u cant buy that anymore...i bought ps3 for socom 4 what a bad game an the online experience was horrible ... we would sit on xbl in a party while playing on ps3 so we could communicate sad.. so sony has guranteed best online experience this gen fastest blah blah blah lets hope so an i bet it wont be free ull have to have plus which last i checked most of the moron ps3 fanboys are paying for online as well.. an let me tell u payin for plus so u can play a beta or get maps ontime instead of weeks later thats not a ripoff at all right? payin for psn is the biggest ripoff period its horrible...
id rather be forced to have a allways on system then play on the playstation network thats how bad it is
Personally, I don't think the DRM rumor has anything to do with the reason why MS decided to push back the Xbox 720 announcement.
Though, I believe that the MS announcement won't make any difference if the reveal of their next GEN console is equal to the PS4 reveal.
With that being said, MS have to bring the ruckus this time. I mean, Anything above average is not acceptable.