Looks like Valve is nudging users to update their opinions after more play time.
It's time to add two more games to your library for free from the Epic Games Store.
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.
you should apply in MS PR team buddy, I think you will do a great job in my humble opinion :)
MS: "Xbox services and content without AB up 1%, with AB up 62%. Hardware down 31%. In total a loss of 350 mill."
darthv72: "Seems about right."
MS: "Excuse m ..."
darthv72: "I don't hardly play on my consoles directly."
MS:
What he said was facts. How he plays games is no concern of you. Don't get too mad about it.
I can tell people like you are an absolute minority..
If service is up means their fans and fanboys accepted this model and subscribed to it. The near future you will see a big decline because the service is saturated.
But that's been ms for years. When things aren't going their way they try to change the way things are said. For instance console sales are down, they stop telling how many sold instead telling us how many hours spent in halo or headshots. So it makes sense console sales down just say people are playing on more devices then previous. What they won't say is how many xbox players jumped ship to ps5.
Hardware sales are so bad that Sony and Nintendo are blowing the sales off the water with their hardware.
If Xbox are losers, others aren’t..
Xbox already tried everything with Xbox live then subscriptions went down so much that they had to find something else. Their fans subscribed then reached saturation rather quickly.
Hardware and exclusive games is where it’s at! Keep gamers excited, announce decent software and people will support you
@shin
Well keep it simple Sony 's operating income is down 26% and Microsoft's is up 32%. No MS spin there, just facts. 😉
Cheers
Odd that a company that touts you dont need the hardware to play is already touting another console in the works.
They are not reliant on the HW but still want to maintain a presence (no matter how small) is a good thing. It shows commitment to the craft. It reminds me of SNK and how they made games for their own hardware (Neo Geo) while also making them for others because they knew there was a market to do so. They knew they would sell more to others but also sell to their own niche fan base.
In the last two years they've started exiting the consumer market altogether. All of the newest Surface products are business models only. They can't seem to work out what they want to do with it.
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.
Activision: "we gonna need a bigger rucksack/backpack please"
Microsoft: "why's that"
Activision: "to carry yo' weak ass'
Top brass have also wanted to start seeing returns on the 100 billion they have put into various Xbox related moves so seeing more multiplatform games is highly likely especially from abk
It's basically saying that PlayStation is the reason Xbox is afloat right now thinks to Ps5 versions of COD
The only growth MS will get out of the console industry is if it supports it's rivals platforms. Xbox is a pointless machine now. I can see them on a big push for live next, and they won't give up on trying to buy Steam.
You'll know of EGX. You'll know of MCM Comic Con. Today the two events have confirmed that they'll be coming together under one roof
This is one of the main reasons why I find the review system for Steam is extremely flawed. People can leave a negative review for a number of reasons, yet still end up putting hundreds of hours into that said game. Maybe all the technical bugs were fixed, but sadly those negative reviews may remain unchanged. Something does need to be done about it.
I agree with this. They should have a required review update every so many hours.
Every 10... maybe every 50 hours of playtime? Or maybe, have the hour limit change depending on the genre/type of game.
Whatever way they review it (favorable or not), if they don't update it based on the additional game time they put in, valve will delete the review.
That way we know the reviews are more current. And, if the person REALLY cared for their review to stay up, they can "update" the review, but just leave it the same as before. I get that's circumventing the whole idea I'm presenting... but many wouldn't care to make sure their review stays up. And then we'd only have (for the most part) reviews from gamers who DO care about what they have to say about the games they review.
And again, it's only based on game time. So if someone plays a game for 3 hours, leaves a negative review, but never plays it again. They won't ever have to update that review because they never hit the next threshold for a required "Review update".
Just my two cents.
This is cool, I hate that reviews will be left up when they no longer apply but it’s a hard thing to manage obviously if a game has game breaking bugs you want to warn people but what about when those bugs are fixed does the game still deserve the possible hit in sales?
Microsoft’s store is fucking awful but the fact that by default it only shows reviews of the current version is a really good way to get around this problem, however that also means the positive reviews and reviews that talk about problems that aren’t just launch issues or bugs go away too.
It’s a very hard thing to manage I don’t envy steam/Xbox/PSN smaller indies live and die on reviews if a game gets review bombed for political reasons or some stupid bullshit besides the quality of the game it can kill a indie studio. I almost feel like user reviews shouldn’t be on the clients but then obviously you can’t warn people when something dodgy is going on... I really can’t settle on a solution every time I think about this I just spiral and end up arguing with myself.
Some will say it encourages companies to launch in the best state possible but I don’t think that’s true and what about accidents like uploading the wrong build? I’ve heard of a few indies doing that or what about great games that have server issues day one and get review bombed? As I said I do not envy these platforms.
What's the point of even having user reviews if you want them to change or update their review? If the game launched with issues then that's what happened. Why should reviews be deleted because the game was patched as some seem to suggest.
I ’m enjoying the new train wreck wwe2k20 even though it is a terrible game. Just because I am playing it to see how bad it is doesn’t mean it is suddenly worth spending money on or giving it a thumbs up.
If we go by hours played Clicker Heroes 1 is the greatest video game of all time.