Today is a very good day if you happen to be a fan of "Yo-Kai Watch". You see, Nintendo Sweden just sent me (Robin Ek, TGG) some info about Yo-Kai Watch 2: Psychic Specters =)
Earlier today, Steam passed over 38 million concurrent players. Or to be more precise, it hit 38,367,277 concurrent players.
Wow. That's a significant feat. It's tough to ignore these figures as a platform owner.
Its the best place to play even though I'm on ps5 I do have a steam/epic account I can see how good it is. No censoring on devs players choice to censor, free to play online, few other benifits. If they advertised they would had more.
Well deserved. Very consumer and developer friendly and massive support.
Steam's total player count hit an all time record recently, and it foretells the influence that Black Myth: Wukong and China is going to have on gaming.
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.
