Overwatch is available for the PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, but console community management leaves something to be desired. A Blizzard forum poster detailed his frustrating experience with a troll that stated "Send me cash or I'll throw" and the complete lack of systems to report and ban toxic players.
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.
What a stupid thing to say. The elites give 0 fucks what we say on an obscure website in the comments section.
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.
Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."
Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.
HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.
It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.
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
Well, the reporting system blizzard has would eventually weed that asshole out of the system.
They cant stop the idea of trolling happening but if someone constantly does that they will get banned.
Plus, that guy wont be succesful in getting money and would probably stop at one point lol
They have an issue with people grinding for loot boxes or using M&K on console but not this.
If they wanted, they would work something out with the console companies to figure put a report system, but they don't put the same lev od attention to consoles. Also banning a troll from overwatch won't make Sony lose money because he would still keep his PSN account and go somewhere else. The rules are the rules and I'm sure Sony would understand and won't intervene.
To me it is just Blizzard not caring enough about consoles.
Meh, bad journalism. I was in that forum post and I'll state the same thing here. Console report feature is being implemented in the summer. It's been being developed since winter and takes a while to get right before going live on consoles. That's what Jeff Kaplan said, expect it around summer. I have around 700 hours in overwatch and I've never encountered someone trying to extort me. If they tried and threw the match, Meh it's a loss, I'll get a win back right after. After all its a game. You can always get back to where you were, it's not like you'll go on a 10 game losing streak from 1 guy throwing. Even then there's a 10 game Win streak right around the corner after that.
So morons sent the troll money? Lol definitely not blizzards problem