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What happened to all the people that were cheering over that MS Activision acquisition?
As expected. A tale as old as time.
I always say ppl can just go back and read old threads....lol.
justiceiro
Marlboro: Other M
Lol, you think Xbox has gone third party just because the Activision deal??
GHG
Gold Member
Why didn't you correct @bxrz?
Yes, I was trying to do something by posting the opposite in the same and other threads the same day
Just petty stuff now, G.
Are you joking? I made it abundantly clear that my stance was that prices would increase as a result of the deal. It's not my job to clean up mess that you make after you are happy to spend days misleading and misinforming people.
In fact, I was pretty clear in stating that there was a possibility that the prices along with the structure of gamepass could change as a result of the deal:
Stop being a rat.
schaft0620
Member
Yeah Xbox parent got that first check and said to Xbox, that's what you are doing now with all the games, you freaking losers.
NeverYouMind
Member
I like the outcome. They get to be a third party publisher that funds awesome games without their anti-completive playbook for market dominance. I am buying most of their new games on PC anyhow.
Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
Microsoft had dues to pay. They treated gamers like absolute idiots for years. They gave in to the PR war, and lost.
DryvBy
Gold Member
Money dried up
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
1. Not my job to clean up other people's posts either, especially if it's banned members who I've never interacted with before.
2. The second half of your post is a flat out lie
Hell if we're digging deep into the well, I was just a little bit off about a game pass price increase in mid 2023, all the way back in 2022.
Never.
Now you can have both.
ShadowkillXNA
Member
They certainly love talking about their flops. Especially in comparison to playstations.
GHG
Gold Member
He wasn't banned at the time and there were plenty of times when you were interacting with him prior to that throughout the thread:
(note, Florian Mueller again egging you on, you must have been doing something right in his eyes for that to happen huh?)
Also what about Jemm's post, you decided to reinforce that instead of correcting him? Why?
2. The second half of your post is a flat out lie
Go on, humour me, where is the lie?
Hell if we're digging deep into the well, I was just a little bit off about a game pass price increase in mid 2023, all the way back in 2022.
Again, it's a shame you weren't clear on this when you were busy running PR on behalf of Microsoft at key points throughout the regulatory process.
Wish I could say I was surprised.
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DavJay
Member
Xbox dead because of weak exclusives. Not even sure you can even called it that because of day one of releases. When determine what consoles to get people will look at what I can play here that I can’t play anyone else. The Xbox is pretty much marketed to the causal madden and CoD fan base and that backfired because of marketing deals with PS. It’s way too late to recover and they are making another giant mistake by putting every games on PS too.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Ok. But you didn't correct him either so you let led him on just the same
Reinforce by leaving an emoji on the post? Bro come on, don't catch feelings over emojis or we would be waging war over demigod on GAF right now, lol.
All of it ? chiefly the 'happy to misinform' people. Everyone had the same level of information as it was happening at the time.
I'm honest if nothing else.
GHG
Gold Member
Ok. But you didn't correct him either so you let led him on just the same
Now you're being intentionally obtuse.
You posted, in big bold letters, that there would be no price increase. But somehow I'm the one leading him on, despite me becoming public enemy number one in Xbox fandom circles to the point where you had new accounts crawling out of the woodwork to have it out with me in that thread? Give me a break.
His post came in the same thread of discussion that started because of your post (which also spurred on the posts from bxrz).
Its like you're failing to understand this simple fact - if you don't post "there will be no price increase" then there is no subsequent series of posts where people are blindly taking that as gospel.
So you want to claim that because those words came from Microsoft themselves that they were not designed to mislead/misinform the public and regulators?
I'm honest if nothing else.
You wish.
Reality set in and hit them straight in the face because what they thought it was "good" for them (because it was convenient just to them) was shilled as "good for everyone, even though we want to get all those multiplatforms only for ourselves, fuck you"
Who would have thought SeriesX and XboneS were going to crater so hard, it'd make Activision the top dog at MS, forcing the plans to change and go from First party games for Xbox, to MS Gaming becoming a Third Party publisher
Mattyp
Not the YouTuber
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People like to paint that they’re going to fold every week for some bizarre reason but they’re the largest third party developer in the world in sales and games, and only second to Sony in overall revenue.
Xbox revenue has never been higher, that was the entire point of the acquisition.
People like to paint that they’re going to fold every week for some bizarre reason but they’re the largest third party developer in the world in sales and games, and only second to Sony in overall revenue.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
MS purchasing revenue, not Xbox. Redefining what Xbox means is their marketing spin. You are taking it as a given as if everyone just has to buy it or take it as something that was not just recently changed. MS Gaming is not failing, you are fighting strawmen.
Smoke6
Member
This makes no sense at all. Before consoles became a thing it was PC gaming no? So if you don’t play on consoles at all the.mn what was the point of this comment? Like im dead ass serious to what do you think this means?
A healthy game industry but you game on PC in which some folks pirate games or don’t even wanna pay full price right? Cry about having to login to other services outside of steam right?
Hasn’t PC gaming always been healthy? I’m seeing 4090s and up selling for thousands of dollars right now! I don’t see consoles doing that outside of the Annie edition pro models.
Make it make sense bruh as your whole ass reply seems like cap and copium
Smoke6
Member
So you’re the dude that goes and shops at stores they couldn’t afford to shop at once the store had a “going out of business sale” mark up everything 30% and you go and think you’ve gotten a deal but give a shit about the store itself!
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
No I didn't lol, go look at your own screen again, it's the title of the article and my one word reply "Excellent". You're making it sound like I fabricated something out of thin air and propagated it on GAF against the TOS or something.
If you're gonna call me out for not correcting xyz users, I'm gonna do the same to you not correcting him either, especially since you had the foresight all the way back then that I lacked, the onus was on you to correct misguided posters.
Give me a break.
What drivel is this, lol.
My post spurred bxrz even though he never quoted me or referenced what I said, but somehow my posts in the next page where I acknowledge that it doesn't mean no price cuts forever, and also quote you, and you quote me in somewhat of an agreement, somehow those eluded bxrz and he didn't get any additional spurring by them.
I'm getting a good chuckle here cause we're back to the conspiracy board level posts of the acquisition topic now.
GHG
Gold Member
No I didn't lol, go look at your own screen again, it's the title of the article and my one word reply "Excellent". You're making it sound like I fabricated something out of thin air and propagated it on GAF against the TOS or something.
If you're gonna call me out for not correcting xyz users, I'm gonna do the same to you not correcting him either, especially since you had the foresight all the way back then that I lacked, the onus was on you to correct misguided posters.
Give me a break.
What drivel is this, lol.
My post spurred bxrz even though he never quoted me or referenced what I said, but somehow my posts in the next page where I acknowledge that it doesn't mean no price cuts forever, and also quote you, and you quote me in somewhat of an agreement, somehow those eluded bxrz and he didn't get any additional spurring by them.
I'm getting a good chuckle here cause we're back to the conspiracy board level posts of the acquisition topic now.
Oh stop your disingeous nonsense.
Here's the direct link to your exact post which created the whole "no price increase" sub-discussion:
Now everyone can see the flow of the thread from that point onwards, where bxrz decides to thoroughly embarrass himself since he decided to take what you posted as gospel despite every man and their dog trying to tell him he shouldn't take it at face value.
DeepEnigma
said it best at the time regarding your post:
And you're still trying to uphold this nonsense act of yours years later? You sir, must be trolling.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Oh stop your disingeous nonsense.
Here's the direct link yo your exact post which created the whole "no price increase" sub-discussion:
Now everyone can see the flow of the thread from that point onwards, where bxrz decides to thoroughly embarrass himself since he decided to take what you posted as gospel despite every man and their dog trying to tell him he shouldn't take it at face value.
And you're still trying to uphold this nonsense act of yours years later? You sir, must be trolling.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Everyone can see how I supposedly influenced a poster who saw my post, didn't quote or reference it and *only* got inspired by that one post, and no other post after that, and definitely not by the dedicated topic of the same news made the same day where I also posted.
I know I'm somewhat a prominent poster here but you give me far too much credit
And to think all this could have been avoided if you had just corrected the dude then instead of bringing up his posts 2 years later.
edit: Alright that's plenty from me on this, plenty of my posts from the day of and after have been pointed out that state the opposite, I don't want to keep belaboring on this.
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VeganElduderino
Member
I wonder how that weirdo feels today!? That was cringe worthy
rm082e
Member
bitbydeath
Member
Any business can fold with high revenue, it’s not a great thing if the operational costs exceed the profits.
DryvBy
Gold Member
That's why they're going third party because they over succeeded.Well didnt CoD have a 150% after MS purchased activation ?Pretty sure it worked out well for game pass.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I still think it was a good move for them, financially speaking.
Everyone was worried about Activision and/or Blizzard games being first party, and therefore locked to Xbox. In reality what happened was it made Microsoft realize they're leaving money on the table by not selling their other (non-government-obligated) studio's games on other platforms - effectively making Microsoft a third party to the platforms that actually matter. Their studios are already incredibly good at day-one PC releases, won't be long before they're also day-one PlayStation games too.
I'll be surprised if Microsoft invests in next-gen hardware at this point - maybe a handheld, if anything. They'll continue to support the Series for a while, while phasing out Game Pass Console and Ultimate in favor of PC-only.
Everyone was worried about Activision and/or Blizzard games being first party, and therefore locked to Xbox. In reality what happened was it made Microsoft realize they're leaving money on the table by not selling their other (non-government-obligated) studio's games on other platforms - effectively making Microsoft a third party to the platforms that actually matter. Their studios are already incredibly good at day-one PC releases, won't be long before they're also day-one PlayStation games too.
I'll be surprised if Microsoft invests in next-gen hardware at this point - maybe a handheld, if anything. They'll continue to support the Series for a while, while phasing out Game Pass Console and Ultimate in favor of PC-only.
UniformDeliverance
Member
They got what they wanted. It’s old news. Y’all the ones still harping on it
demigod
Member
I’m sure you care for the industry, that’s why you steal games on PC.
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Most won't be honest with you sadly.
Sooner
Gold Member
Apparently, so does every other Microsoft game now.
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
If I posted the reverse thread with a Sony twist we'd see it locked before even 1 page of replies. You're the clown OP.
MS ate 70% of Sony's most dominate 3rd party and largest revenue slice. Xbox have now accomplished the same that Sony was doing to fund Sony 1st party and anti-Xbox moves for the last 10+ years.
MS also moved into mobile and third party stores.
It's actually pretty funny to watch.
MS ate 70% of Sony's most dominate 3rd party and largest revenue slice. Xbox have now accomplished the same that Sony was doing to fund Sony 1st party and anti-Xbox moves for the last 10+ years.
MS also moved into mobile and third party stores.
It's actually pretty funny to watch.
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Sooner
Gold Member
That's some next level denial.
It's like a Chiefs fan claiming they just won the Super Bowl again and those Eagles fans holding a parade thinking they won is "pretty funny to watch".
SteadyEvo
Member
I remember when Nintendo was going 3rd party after the WiiU...
Yes.
Because with Bethesda, Phil rushed to cancel the PS5 versions of games and with Activision he even launched Xbox games on the PS5.
This is probably the stupidest take yet, so congratulations.
CoreyFlawless
Member
Doing good and great. I get to play all of it on my game pass.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Enlighten me.
Mattyp
Not the YouTuber
Any business can fold with high revenue, it’s not a great thing if the operational costs exceed the profits.
Yet no one’s been able to explain how Microsoft exceeds $22 billion a year on xbox expenditures.
We can see Sonys first party and spend on services for a much larger network where they don’t have access to their own cloud.
200 AAA titles? They make a profit on software and subscription services of xbox, the hardware they’ve been on record saying they don’t.
DrMano
Member
I have always rooted for consoles having 1st party exclusives without sharing, so Halo Forza on PS isn't something I like (I don't like them on PC either hot take, neither PS games on PC)
On a macro scale I didn't / don't give a fuck because I am antagonistic towards all these companies.
On a mirco scale I was looking forward to having acti/bliz games on gamepass, which for the most part didn't happen.
I feel short changed and I'm pissed
On a macro scale I didn't / don't give a fuck because I am antagonistic towards all these companies.
On a mirco scale I was looking forward to having acti/bliz games on gamepass, which for the most part didn't happen.
I feel short changed and I'm pissed
bitbydeath
Member
Microsoft won’t give out the figures, who knows how much operating cost they are enduring with that revenue size. Would not be pretty.
Miyazaki’s Slave
Gold Member
apple has 2 dozen alts...hell half of the people shitting on him in this thread are his alts or HERS?!?!?!?!??!?!
