Voidler

What a shame that Lemmings not buying or playing games has caused this outcome.

https://www.trueachievements.com/n52956/shinji-mikami-leaving-tango-gameworks

Things will be much better for him once he is away from the toxic low effort Xbox development culture and making games for PlayStation and Nintendo again

The deal has failed  

Xbox is a fucking Pacman mouth 

I would forgive a lot more of the games faults if they had done better with the story and characters.

Harry Potter books and movies are known for really inventive scenarios, memorable characters with distinct personalities. For them not to do a better job there is a massive weakness

I mean I can't even remember the names of any characters I've met

8 hours ago, Twinblade said:

 

 It still has many of the same issues that plague many open world games, I won't deny that. But its still better designed and developed than the majority of those that have been released recently. Its been more fun and engaging than Horizon Forbidden West, thats for sure.

And all people did was complain about Horizon, Ass Creed and other checklist open worlds. Now those things aren't an issue in a game doing it worse, with shit combat and a sleep inducing story?

7 hours ago, Twinblade said:

 

Yes, lets just ignore every other reviewer along with myself and Ike on this board, who can attest to the game's quality and know its better than a 6 or a 7.

Why tf would I care about your opinion or Ikes? I've played the game, it is run of the mill at best. Bad combat, awful story and characters, broken loot system, generic Ubisoft checkpoint mission design

It is mid as fuck. Only thing it does well is a cool setting 

5 hours ago, Twinblade said:

 

They rated the game a whole 2.5 points below the average more than a week after it came out....and knew they were going to stir up controversy because they didn't even name the reviewer. 

 

You really sound foolish right now if you think that wasn't politically motivated.

The game is a 7 at best. You're ignoring all the issues cause of politics

Honestly the game is mid

The best thing is when this deal fails Microsoft have to pay $3 billion to Activision

Almost as much as Sony paid for getting Bungie 

2 minutes ago, -GD-X said:

this ain't mine. it's alphy's.

You work here don't make me go Karen and ask for the manager

2 hours ago, -GD-X said:

damn, voidler is so passionate about his post, he posted it 3 times

Fix your glitchy ass forum still doing the same glitches as 5 years ago 

Double post

Double post

4 hours ago, Jerrys Hair Line said:

MS just made Sony look like clowns. If the deal does go through, I wouldn’t be surprised if COD is gone from PS based on Sony denying the deal.  
 

MS says that Sony's motion should be denied and provides 10 pages of arguments. MS says that:

- Sony has unleashed its executives and high-priced economists to petition the Commission, as well as regulators around the world, to block the transaction. MS mentions 4 redacted examples.

- Sony's campaign has worked because the Commission's theory of harm relies almost exclusively on the facially implausible claim that the acquisition is anticompetitive because Microsoft will withhold from Sony a single game (Call of Duty).

- Despite leading the charge to stop the transaction, Sony claims it should not be required to produce documents on the very topics it has put at issue.

- Sony should produce documents from Lin Tao and Hideaki Nishino because Tao is the key custodian with information about SIE's financial health and plans and Nishino is the head of SIE's hardware business, another topic of central importance.

- Sony relies on blanket assertions of privilege and the burden of reviewing McCurdy's files because he is a lawyer. But, according to his job posting, McCurdy is also responsible for SIE's public policy engagement.

- Sony has refused to provide a predecessor custodian for Christian Svensson, who manages SIE's relationship with Activision, even though Svensson has only been in his position since 2021. MS says that that relationship is of the upmost importance, and SIE has not supported its assertion that Svensson's manager would have the same documents as Svensson's predecessor.

- Regarding the requests for data about the performance of SIE's gaming business, Sony has not explained why pulling and producing data from its central files, without any need for responsiveness or privilege review, would be unduly burdensome.

- Requests 14(d) and 19 are about specific documents—valuations, board documents, and regulatory submissions—related to SIE's cloud-gaming acquisitions of Gaikai in 2012 and OnLive in 2015. MS says that providing targeted information about SIE's own cloud-gaming efforts is relevant to assessing the viability of that claim and is not unduly burdensome.

- Microsoft seeks performance reviews for SIE custodians. Microsoft is not seeking to embarrass SIE's leadership; it seeks to understand the metrics on which SIE's executives and business are evaluated.

- Request 35 seeks executed copies of content-licensing agreements between SIE and third- party gaming publishers. MS says that these contracts are relevant. Microsoft says that they are aware that PlayStation requires many third-party publishers to agree to exclusivity provisions, including preventing the publishers from putting their games on Xbox's multi-game subscription service. But that they do not fully understand the extent of SIE's arrangements or how they impact the industry's competitiveness.

- Microsoft requests that Sony produce documents that SIE submitted to these regulatory authorities in connection with this transaction. SIE has refused, agreeing only to produce submissions to the European Commission and United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority, based on claims of burden.

- Contrary to the allegation that Microsoft will make Call of Duty exclusive to Xbox, since announcing the deal, Microsoft has repeatedly offered to enter into an agreement to license Call of Duty to SIE—first for five years (this is new!) and then for ten, an unheard-of duration in the industry. SIE has refused. Microsoft seeks documents about these negotiations, including SIE's internal consideration of Microsoft's offers and why it has refused them.

- Request 14(f) seeks information about SIE's investment in virtual reality technology for its console, which SIE executives have highlighted as a strategic imperative and "a giant leap forward in the way we play games.

You do realise there is no scenario open for MS to get this through which results in COD not being on PS right?

The CMA only left open behavioural remedies (eg an even longer licensing agreement or a licensing agreement in perpetuity for COD), and generally behavioural remedies aren't enough for CMA. Or the more likely structural remedy which is COD and the companies involved in making it being sold off

The deal is dead in the water 

7 hours ago, Cooke said:

Capitalistic societies don't like monopolies. It's bad for the consumer. That's part of the reason why there is a government.  A purely capitalist society wouldn't even need a government. Business would run everything with no rules or regulations keeping them in line. 

And would quickly become a handful of monopolies. I mean it kind of already has

This thing is dead in the water

They should dismantle MS so they stop trying this anti consumer behaviour

21 hours ago, -GD-X said:

The protein farts, though. Jfc. I try to keep protein at around 125 grams a day. 

Sniffing my screen rn

8 hours ago, Twinblade said:

Haven’t had a chance to play much (my IT certification exam is tomorrow so I’ve been spending most of my free time studying) but the one aspect of the design that bothers me so far is the gear limit. You can only carry 20 total which feels overly restrictive considering how often you come across that stuff.

Yeah agreed

But you can change the skin to anything you've picked up after you have sold or destroyed it so you really only need to keep the best gear you have with you

11 hours ago, Jerrys Hair Line said:

I’ll LMFAO if this deal fails and MS buys 10 years of exclusivity for COD 

 

Cows better hope it goes through.

Yeah Activision are gonna sell exclusivity to the platform that doesn't buy games

20 million units a year to zero 

3 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

 

She's a feminist who was tired of seeing Trans people trample all over women's rights. I don't blame her for speaking up.

Aka "focus on me, I'm the real oppressed one"

4 hours ago, Jerrys Hair Line said:

Even worse, she didn’t ever even say anything bad lmao. 
 

 

Honestly though she's a fucking idiot. She's a multi billionaire trying to get in on the oppression olympics

Gamespot 🤡

On 2023-02-05 at 4:36 AM, Jerrys Hair Line said:

I tried watching harry pooter for the first time in my 20s. It just didn’t give. They were like 8 year olds that couldn’t act, the special effects were shit, and it was just overall not something I was into. I could see how people who grew up with it liked it though 

If you miss it as a kid you probably won't like it. Half the magic of it is kids wishing they could go to magic school

Blatant TLOU clone 

All of these are on PS Plus Extra now anyway, it's redundant