Ok, so we heard MS secured the rights of the first Titanfall on their platforms and PC for its "lifetime" (whatever that means).
We all know why it went down.
$$$$$$$
But is it right that MS does this? We already know they have done this numerous times in the past with FFXIII and the GTA series.
Now I know what a lot of you are just saying, "It's just business".
Well, that doesn't really mean anything.
Bribing is still wrong.
It's that transactions like this one has occurred so much around the world, that we had just gotten used to it.
It's morally wrong and unfair competition to others.
There are just tons of businesses that has been lost, even while they are better than other business, due to bribery.
Which in some cases can lead to corruption.
Such as this one, "A whopping 50% of companies in Malaysia surveyed by Transparency International (TI) said that they had lost business due to bribery.This is the highest percentage among 30 countries, all active in international trade, where such surveys were conducted. The survey in Malaysia also revealed that 39% of the 101 companies failed to win a contract or gain new business because their competitor paid a bribe.
In comparison, even in less developed countries such as Senegal and Nigeria, less than 30% said that they lost business because they didn't pay a bribe, said Low. Saying that the findings highlighted the structural corruption in Malaysia, Low said: "Petty corruption, such as paying RM50 can be curbed easily. But structural corruption may have political impact."
http://www.fz.com/content/t...
As you can see here, underdeveloped countries cannot gain traction because bribing is just being used to win, limiting the countries productivity and affecting the trust with politicians.
"Companies bribe to win contracts, speed up bureaucracy and avoid the rules – or change them. They go through more indirect financial contributions that are intended to influence procurement processes and policy makers."
"The results found that 27 per cent, or more than one in four businesspeople surveyed, think that they had lost business in the last 12 months due to bribery."
Here goes into specifics of how many businesses were lost due to bribery
http://blog.transparency.or...
Now, another thing you are saying is that these are just games. Well no matter what bribery is used for, it is wrong.
Ethically it is horrid.
In our world we have lost advancement in technology and achieving things more efficiently due to bribery.
Oil companies anyone?
We had electric cars in the early 1990's that will get about 100 mpg, what happened to those back then?
What we have here is MS bribing for exclusives. Instead of doing it the right way of acquiring or opening constant new studious, they are just bribing for a game. But then majority of the time it goes to other platform down the line. So I believe it's a waste of time to get a system for those games. Its unfair that Titanfall will not release on the other platforms. You can tell that Respawn wanted it to go on the PS4; but EA became their greedy ways and made cash deal with MS. I do not see how EA is improving, but worsening their reputation by doing this, while still having other exclusivity deals with MS.
I am not saying this as a PS fanboy or whatever, but in a ethically point of view. As bribery is still present in this world and needs to stop. Any business that does this bothers me. I wonder if MS and EA has any shame in this.
We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.
This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.
On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.
Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...
Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken
Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.
There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods
There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.
On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.
lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.
The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.
Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.
Par for Bethesda.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.
Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.
You're ridiculous. If Sony secured a third party exclusive you'd be praising them to high heaven for seizing the opportunity. When MS does it, it's "bribery"?
I suppose you don't consider all those PS4 indie games like Octodad and The Witness to be the results of shady, unethical business practices, do you?
So Sony is bribing Capcom with Deep Down, bribed Quantic Dream and did Sony partially bribe Ubisoft for those exclusive PS4 Assassins Creed missions?
A business deal is not defined by logic or law as a bribe.
I also find it embarrassing for Cat to personally approve a blog which could in fact be classed as traducement in the US and UK...
I think you're mixing up "bribing" and "capitalism."
EA has absolutely no obligation to bring Titanfall to every console; they were offered a deal, and they took it, just like every business transaction literally ever. Plus, I notice that exclusive games tend to be of higher quality because they put all their resources into getting the most from one system (I'm assuming 360 and XB1 architecture aren't terribly different) so this might even be best for Titanfall itself.
I MIGHT share your feeling if we were talking about, say, exclusive DLC for a multiplatform game. That's when it feels like a developer has forsaken a number of their fans. This, though? Nope. Average fanboy feather-ruffling.
This is usually when I'd half-jokingly recommend looking into a gaming PC, but you'll probably need Origin and their draconic anti-cheating software to play it here. I'm angrier about that...
(and seriously, you're comparing this to the death of the electric car? It's one game, not a revolutionary technology that would destroy a market)
"We already know they have done this numerous times in the past with FFXIII and the GTA series."
Really? Do you have any proof to back up this bold statement? Does this mean Sony bribed Namco for Tales of Xillia or to keep Disgaea on PS3?
I love this sony fanboy mentality. Lord forbid MS provide exclusives for their system. I mean one minute we have Sony fanboys screaming that MS has no exclusives then the next we have them saying MS pays for exclusives (and that's baaaad). The sony fanboys are so concerned about what MS and their fanbase does it's hard to believe they actually enjoyed anything that Sony had offered them.
I love this misuse of the term bribe too. I have never seen such contempt from one side over a game not coming to their system.
"Its unfair that Titanfall will not release on the other platforms."
This statement is what it basically comes down too. Hurt feelings over a specific game not coming to the PS4. It's not fair to the Sony fanboys but it is fair to anyone who is a Xbox fan or user. Hilarious how this is not stated anywhere in this blog or anyone on this site.
And because MS saw greatness in this title and wanted it for their fans, magically it turned into a back ally bribe deal meant to hurt the other platform in some evil biblical way.
And are we seriously linking world businesses on bribery and trying to compare them to legal and fair deal of a video game coming to the Xbox One? Are we this desperate?
You do know that Sony also opens the check book for exclusive deals too right?when MS does the same its some huge crime.