Microsoft is going all-in on mobile with plans for a new Xbox store. The details were revealed during the Activision Blizzard acquisition.
Veteran game designer James Montagna is directing this new project and apparently has a new outlook on game design after teaming up with Nintendo
The game in question appears to be dubbed Auroria on Steam, which shares a plethora of similarities with Palworld.
No offense but Palworld isn't that original either, with that said… ew Tencent no thank you. I love the survival genre but all these half baked early access games have ruined the genre for me.
>Palworld isn't that original either
Can't disagree with that, but it did spin the Pokemon dynamic in a unique way, you gotta give Pocketpair that. Now by doing so, prepare for a ton of Palworld clones, both on PC and mobile.
True, but big pocket people pushing out little pocket people is a huge problem. It's Walmart of the digital world.
Not much that can be done though. Tencent been making clones of what's popular for a while. I don't touch anything they make, except for Don't Starve but i bought that before Klei sold themselves to the devil.
@Inverno: There's a lot that can be done, actually. Just no one is willing to do it. Anti-competitive/monopoly laws literally exist for this exact reason. Governments are just letting big corporations do whatever they want.
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The details being exposed as a result of their embattled attempts to buy up the industry are causing Microsoft more harm than good, in my opinion. What a dreadful mess.
Microsoft is trying to dominate all spaces imo.
this was already hinted at when King was part of the AB deal.
It's going to be an all in one store front. Android and Xbox games all in one spot.
Microsoft lags behind both Steam and Playstation in the mobile app space already because of their decision to bundle Remote Play in the same app as the Official Xbox app. Whatever that reasoning, it makes the Xbox ecosystem the most difficult to access off the platform. The mobile site is not a good experience either.
PS and Steam, with separate Remote Play / Link apps, allow full store navigation and purchases over their official mobile apps.
The Xbox app on Windows is disconnected and has issues with the Windows Store on their own operating system.
Merger/Activision/whatever discussion aside, Microsoft better improve that experience before introducing yet another application and further stretching their demonstrably subpar teams working on these things.