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One former 343 Industries QA Tester blames Microsoft's contracting policies for the Halo franchise's hardships and MS' exclusives downturn in quality.
Microsoft biggest opp is the main stream media lol suda 51 hit it on the head on metacritic and media bias.
The contracting policies do cause a decrease in developer productivity. New contractors are continually having to adjust to new dev tools and workplaces. Once a contractor has fully adjusted to a studio and its development tech, they are often let go and replaced.
Literally all big companies get the same treatment… maybe not Nintendo as much but Sony and MS definitely do.
You're not living up to your username bro, nearly every MS studio release has been met with sizeable disappoinment of some kind besides Hi-Fi Rush for the past decade.
Concord, the PS5 game that cost $400 million, flopped within 12 days of its release, surpassing E.T. to become the biggest flop in gaming history. What happened? Did they forget to include gameplay?
@BeHunted
Absolutely no one is defending Concord 🤣, also the $400mil has been debunked. And lastly this has nothing to do with Sony or Concord.
@BeHunted
I think he means Microsofts old studios, the ones responsible for halo, gears and forza. Every new game has had a noticeable drop in quality.
Concord is from one of Sonys newest studios, and Microsoft buying what's already popular studios don't count.
@BeHunted lol, that's like s***ing your pants and saying "Hey, that guy over there p***ed his pants, it's ok!"
No dude, you still s*** your pants. Many times. Now nobody wants to play with you.
At least the other guy is cleaning his pants.
Look at first party games pre Halo 5 and gears 4 some amazing generational hits that stand as some of the greatest games ever made like halo 1/2/3, mass effect 1, gears 1/2, Crackdown, fable etc.
And look at them since the Kinect on 360 where the focus turned to trying to capture the casual market pivoting back trying cloud and gamepass and giving up then going on a spending spree because they failed to compete on their own merits.
Stellar games like
Halo 5/ infinite, gears 4, recore, starfield and red fall are the result. I don't think anyone will look back in 20 years like man that whole moment between master chief and locke when they teamed up with amazing but everyone recalls the fall of reach.
Yeah I've noticed a significant downturn in quality for the last decade or more
Hi-fi rush was born out of a side project and that is their most acclaimed game in the last decade
I found that after Microsoft bought 2 certain ip's from Bungie and Epic their quality has gone down. The exclusives are boring Gears 4 and 5 I thought were boring Halo 5 I also thought was boring. And yes the quality was there when XB360 had exclusives. But since XB1 and Series X the quality and lack of exclusives has gone down. And yes it sounds like Microsoft is a prick to work for. Work today get turfed tomorrow.
XBOX can't handle its own business but Phil says the whole industry is in the doldrums....what a tool.
It's the Xbox way of doing things.
1. Claim their problems are industry wide problems.
2. Have your influencers and fanboys parrot it until even they believe it.
3.Buy popular IPs and Devs because they can make anything themselves.
4.Make your platform so irrelevant people will actually be happy when you eventually have no choice but to go 3rd party just to stay in gaming.
5. Profit
Contractors take 6 months to become productive and a further 6 months to become proficient. It’s completely nuts to show them the door at that point. Contract devs are a tricky proposition at the best of times and certainly not the panacea that senior leadership often think.
The company is way overdue for new management. If Phil was a Sony or Nintendo CEO that kept producing bad results year after year, his ass would of been canned a decade ago.
I don't think it's the case for other Xbox studios. 343i when it was built it was part of Microsoft proper and therefore had the same processes for most things. But I believe that all has been changed now or in the process of changing since 343i(and Xbox) is no longer part of Microsoft.
It is it's own company within Microsoft which is why Phil has the CEO title.
First I'm hearing that they're no longer "part of Microsoft", really. Do you have anything to support that claim?
If you ask me, it seems like Nadella is calling the shots and Phil's title is fairly toothless.
If what you're saying is true, I don't really understand him reportedly being upset about the studio closures or the fact that they've increased multiplatform output. That sounds, to me, like Microsoft proper is stepping in to prop things up, but not without demanding some concessions. The way they're moving now is very corporate and very cutthroat—I'm doubting these are Xbox-level decisions.
State of Play is back tomorrow, September 24! Tune in live for news and updates on more than 20 upcoming PS5 and PS VR2 games from studios around the world.
Agreed, but if I could pick one game to remaster first it would be Killzone 2. If you had to pick one which would it be?
If they announce Kill Zone 2 remake or resistance 2 that multiplayer would be crazy. But Warhawk I would cry like a 2 year old 😂😂😂 give me bloody roar
I love Killzone, but I would prefer a complete reboot of the franchise, using the newest version of the Decima engine, rather than simply a remaster of part 2.
Sony will not do Killzone 2 or any Killzone because they don't have plans for it in the future... No TV shows, no sequel, no Lego game, no multiplayer...
This is dead for Herman... Only Aloy.
And that's sad.
Zero hype for tomorrow.
legacy of kane, resistance, or just something totally new that hasnt been already done
Hopefully zero gaas, will show that they’re starting to reason!!!
And yeah the remaster trend must also stop.
PS5 exclusives or nothing go home
A new Killzone, Uncharted, Tsushima, inFamous, Resistance, Wolverine or something original single player.
I either want something from the infamous franchise or the cheeky answer is being lemmings back as that's now Sony
Killzone 2 I think falls into remake territory.
I'll take a Warhawk remake or even a remaster but that's it, really.
Any remasters for a last generation game on a backwards compatible console is just insulting.
If they do any online only live service stuff, give us MAG or Warhawk, games that actually perfected that formula.
If they don't show something from a couple of their big studios after the absolute disaster they've had with Concord then I'll lose all hope. This generation has been a complete letdown so far and there's very little to look forward to at the moment.
Pretty sure : RE9, Days Gone Remaster, HZD Remaster, 1 last SH2 trailer, Wolverine trailer, Until Dawn trailer
Maybe(s) : GoT 2 announcement, DS2 (but already happening@ TGS), Pragmata, TLOU2 or SpiderMan 2 PC announcement,
Wishlist : Santa Monica & Naughty Dog's new project tease, Marathon gameplay trailer
Don't Want : Any AC Shadows trailer, Any more remasters other than the ones leaked
You really think that other remaster is Days Gone? And my God what happened to Pragmata?!?
It’s 30 minutes, I think you’re being optimistic there, don’t have high expectations, I know mine are the lowest they have ever been since what i have witnessed these past 4 years!
Only 5 remasters. They had to cut back to squeeze in 1 new announcement. They will have another SoP next month to cover the other 12 remasters.
*monkey paw curls*
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered
Gravity Rush 1 & 2 Remastered
Until Dawn Remastered
In the case of Gravity Rush, a remaster of a remaster that plays on PS5 now would be bizarre. Then again, so does Horizon.
This only makes sense if it means a PC release, but they still closed the studio and releasing this would be very poor taste.
I'm presonally looking forward to a Days Gone one. Would love any excuse to play that game again. I loved it
They could do a lot right by simply announcing a blood-borne remastered so many people have been waiting for it and they should not only bring it to PlayStation 5 but also PC
If they are all intent on doing a lot of remasters, how about doing some of the remasters from the games during the PlayStation 2 and three generation instead of PlayStation 4 games?
Can we get infamous collection? Can we please get Socom from the PlayStation 2 generation? Uncharted trilogy God of war trilogy twisted metal collection, kill zone trilogy, resistance trilogy some of these games they can simply just unlock online multiplayer. They’re only one need to do a lot of work and people would enjoy them
But instead, let’s just remastered the last of us horizon zero down the God of war 2018 this PlayStation Sony executive bosses are some of the most idiotic in the past 10 years
PlayStation has such a long history. They can simply do a lot of fun service and get so much positive PR but they keep making the same mistake again and again and again.
I would honestly prefer remasters/remakes/reboots of games than GaaS they have tried to push.
Lol, but like most I was expecting a 'Playstation showcase' but looking at how brief the Pro reveal was ... I am guessing these short State of Plays á la N.Direct style is how Sony is going to continue.
The next big PS showcase is gonna be the PS6 event. Till then all will be SoPs.
Hopefully there's good games, but we'll see. Going in with low hype, and I hope to be pleasantly surprised.
I've yet (still) to jump into this gen of consoles. Still rocking the last gen ps4 and xbox one x. Let's see if Sony can justify that $780 price tag (no way I'd go without a disc drive).
How much longer do you think you could/would hold out on upgrading? A lot of people still haven't upgraded, which I get.
If I'm not convinced by Christmas this year, I'll probably end up skipping this gen.
@FinalFantasyFanatic
As the true Final Fantasy fan I am, I could never skip the place to play the games at release.
It won't happen, but give me a new Killzone. I'm tired of all the same fucking shit lately.
30th anniversary prices will be as follows: $499.99 Slim, $999.99 Pro, $199.99 Portal, $199.99 Edge, $79.99 DS
Its a logical guess. I figure the controllers will be their regular prices, maybe $5 more due to recent news about them raising those and the Portal will be about the same. Both of which will be more available than the actual systems themselves.
Okay got you. If the Portal is not supply limited then okay. But I would expect at least a $100 premium on the limited supply consoles. $999 for the pro bundle seems like it in the ballpark though.
On the second hand market... no doubt. Sony has not doubled the price of a special edition system. they didnt with the 20th anniversary or the 500 million editions. They were marginally more than the respective standard units at the time.
Gonna have to bring more than Remasters this time though, people are wondering what their bigger developers are doing for almost half a gen yet still nothing new got announced yet.
I'll be watching cautiously.
Games take awhile to make. Minimum 4. 5 years to 6 years+. Not saying Ghost 2 will take 8 years to make but Ghost did take 6 years to make which is fast specifically for a new IP. Ghost 2 could be a 2026 title spring that year or, at the very earliest spring of next year. Which would be 5 years even come next year.
ND New IP could be a 2027-2026 the earliest. Again that's not quite bad specifically for a new IP.
Santa Monica New IP could release and announced sooner than the others. Corey has been working on the new IP since 2018 GoW. Remember Corey's main team didn't make the GoW 2022. Their game could release next year. 2018 to 2025 is 7 years the time has to be near. I don't think it'll show up tomorrow but Vga's is the last stop for SSM New IP and Ghost 2. Considering those are their only 2 games that are I guess "closer" to release.
I'm just talking about the new big IP. Of course Venom could release next year. Venom could very well be that one more thing tomorrow. If not then the Vga's. Have a feeling that games close. Wolverine in 2026 and Sm3 in 27.
Stop defending Sony slacking on the games front. 21 studios and not a game to show apart from 15 hours Astrobot. When you play for like 10 hours each day like I do, that 15 hour game is soon forgotten, how great it is, doesn't really matter in the end of the year. They need to release 2-3 heavy hitters a year, Sony is the platformholder after all!!
@CS7 What should I do, enjoying my backpain staring out the window. Nah, I rather game. And it might take a loong time to enter my simrig, but well inside I rather race for a few hours and my backpain eases up a little.
Edit: My PS Portal is great for some laying on couch-gaming thou ;)
I feel like they have to reveal something big, even if it's just a Logo. Coming off the back of some disappointing announcements of late.
Won't be anything we hope for maybe just one thing, come on sony surprise us like those 2009 ps3 days lol I remember they were heavy delivering gems
No. Always keep your expectations in check so then you actually have the chance to be surprised but if its lack luster you don't walk away too disappointed.
This sucks. I remember 2015 & 2016 when expectations were sky high and Sony still managed to literally blow you away, with FF7 Remake, GOW, Spiderman, Horizon gameplay, Tsushima, DS etc.
This is gaming man, it's supposed to be fun. Now the message is don't get excited and people are upvoting that.
This is the worst gen.
I'm going in expecting bangers, their devs had enough time for something to be shown already, especially Wolverine. The 30 min might seem low, but Nintendo has managed to have some great showings with similar show lengths, all they have to do is show the games, and not do a bunch of talking or extended looks.
Finally, all 1st party games they show have to be PS5 Pro enhanced, and I want to see FF7: Rebirth(PRO) type of jumps or better.
I doubt each Pro game will have FF7 levels of improvement because, especially with Sony 1st party, their games tend to have really good levels of IQ as a base. Still there Quality 30 fps modes still have improvement over performance modes so you would expect their pro performance modes to be excellent. FF7s performance was just so poor on OG PS5 that the Pro version looks like a revelation when they could have put more effort into the OG version.
I have no clue what will come of this. I just pray that in 30 minutes, the remaster trailers are 2 minutes total.
yes valid but if there are multiple remasters it still cannot total more than 2 minutes lol
give me Killzone. imagine it now - most people have fast wifi - no lag, It would be glorious.
Sony Inzone New Monitors: Tuesday: https://youtube.com/watch?v...
• State Of Play: Tuesday: https://youtube.com/live/fV...
• Tokyo Game Show: Thursday
• Death Stranding 2 On The Beach: Thursday
• PlayStation 5 Pro Pre Orders Go Live: Thursday
It's a state of play and not a showcase, so it's already off to a dull start. top that with the fact that they specifically use the word updates and not announcements and im not expecting much out of this.
Sony have stopped trying, they have no competition so why bother? The highlight will be a crappy hzd remaster that no one wants.
If they focus on remasters then they are really don't know what we want, they need at least a couple reveals and one crazy announcement...
didnt they leak the info that its horizon zero dawn remasterd and days gone remastered
PlayStation better deliver..........after all of the overwhelming negativity they've had these last 2 weeks. They will need AAA bangers. NOT remasters.
Sony dont GAF about us on these comment sections, we are a tiny proportion of their audience and impossable to please anyway, why should they care?
TLOU remaster was heavilly criticised and pilloried by many of us, but sold 18 million units. We will be ignored, and quite frankly, we deserve no better.
"State of remasters" lol.
For real, never have I watched an exciting State of Play ever. All of them were either boring or dissappointing. Sony still plays catch up with Nintendo in regards to gaming showcases.
Looking forward to the show but when it comes to remasters the only remasters I want to see is Bloodborne or something from the PS3 era. I don't care about a HZD, Until Dawn or a Days Gone remaster.
I buy 3-4 games a week. Some retro some new. This show is probably going to piss my wife off lol.
Can we get a legit Twisted Metal Reboot? I would get on Day 1. Bring it back along with Killzone.
What need to be said or shown to get you guys hyped for PS5 pro aka PS5 I'm Po edition
won't be surprised if it's a dud..sony's glory days are well behind with mr. hulst in charge
For a PS5 owner; this generation has basically been about Sony putting their games on PC and calling them remasters at the same time telling console owners they are number 1 whilst charging them more. When more people wake up and realise they have essentially just copied Microsofts strategy in slow motion they'll finally realise they were shafted this generation. Copying Microsoft will just give you the same results and the corporation will come to the same illogical conclusions that the console market is shrinking when it is in fact themselves that are shrinking it deliberately with bad decisions.
"God of War had a all time peak of 73,529 on Steam, GOW Ragnarok's peak is 25,796" I hope it was worth it Sony, These games were downloaded in their millions on pirate flag waving sites.
Where does the time go?