This phill Spencer have done nothing but hype up ps games. Don mattrick delivered a lot of great games up until 2016, but this canceled or runied great games. He hates Xbox so much and worked so much to ruin it like never before from play anywhere to lack of games.
GamingThreadMicrosoft Studios (& Partners) Current and Future Landscape
ReasonUser Banned (3 Days): Console warring, antagonizing another user, attempting to create inter-thread drama.
I already mentioned this thread in first page. Yes, that thread is indirectly connected to this thread because some reactionary posts because GOW's reviews here. And that thread is created just because GOW's reviews, otherwise it wouldn't happened. I'd explained in post on first page which is true, Klobrille. You, a legit insider, agreed to a post which accuses media for giving to Sony games a good reviews just because emotional storytelling. Which is a straight up bullshit. Now, you mentioned me here too because post in other thread. You did the same now as i did, right?
GamingThreadCanadian Gaming Deals and Discussion Thread
ReasonUser warned: Use of a slur associated with people with developmental disabilities.
Twice now they sent me PAL versions of games clearly sold as North American copies.
Of course you can get a refund, but you have to pay for shipping back to them which is retarded.
Please learn from my mistakes and pay the extra $5 to get shipped from a reputable seller or Amazon directly.
edit: Didn’t mean any offence to anyone with my choice of words above. Simply frustrated with the situation. I apologize if anyone was offended.
GamingThread[GamingBolt] Graphics Analysis - God of War: Arguably The Best Looking Game of All Time
ReasonUser Banned (2 Days): Ignoring Modpost + System Wars
No, they would have warned me if it was just me.
But that's another exclusive vs. an exclusive for the same platform. That's not the same argument as something on another platform which is better implemented but not recognized as a runner-up. Examples, QB, AC:O, Ryse, Injustice 2, Witcher 3, Gears of War, Tomb Raider, etc..
Here, let me give you this quote on page 2:
Is that not flame-bait? Is that implicitly saying that (ala Sony) can beat out all other gaming companies?
GamingThread[GamingBolt] Graphics Analysis - God of War: Arguably The Best Looking Game of All Time
ReasonUser Warned: 'Lazy dev' rhetoric.
Uncharted 4 and Uncharted TLL are lazy PS4 Pro version. Naughty Dog admit it was a rushed job but it is not the way they work... This is why the gap between UC4/TLL PS4 Pro and TLOU 2 will be huge... And the gap will be big too between UC4 PS4 and TLOU PS4... It is normal it is there second game on PS4 but the gap will maybe be even bigger on the PS4 pro version...
GamingThreadCanadian Gaming Deals and Discussion Thread
ReasonThe user was warned for this post. Don't derail threads with complaints about moderation. If you have issues or doubts, send them directly to a staff representative.
GamingThread[GamingBolt] Graphics Analysis - God of War: Arguably The Best Looking Game of All Time
ReasonUser warned: Bringing off site drama into discussion
What he said and I'm not picking sides I'm just calling shit it. SonyEra likes to dog pile on people who criticize or don't agree that Sony has the best of whatever. It's been like that since gaf, same posters; Bundy, Guymelief, the OP, etc. Really ridiculous and sends any kind of discussion down the drain.
GamingThreadMicrosoft Studios (& Partners) Current and Future Landscape
ReasonUser Banned (1 Week): Pushing unfounded concerns about diversity efforts.
Diversity is GOOD but NOT just for the sake of being diverse because doing this defeats the entire purpose of what you're trying to accomplish to begin with. For me, I care about if the person is qualified, skilled, talented, has experience and quite simply, knows what the fuck they're doing. As long as the person meets those requirements, I don't care if the person is male or female or what their race is at all. To me, it's all about what's most important in regards to creating and developing games and even in general. Being diverse isn't what's most important. If you have a completely diverse team but they lack in all the other areas, that not only defeats what you're trying to accomplish but also proves that you're being diverse just for the hell of it when those people aren't qualified to be in the position that they're in.
To sum it up - Any and every studio for that matter can be all female, Black and/or Hispanic people or whatever. As long as they know what they're doing and meet the requirements that the job/position they're applying for is met, im perfectly good with it.
As for Microsoft and Xbox One, I hope that Spencer's plan is NOT to make their games available on other platforms ala Minecraft but at times, it does sound and come across that way in regards to what their future planning is.
GamingThreadMicrosoft Studios (& Partners) Current and Future Landscape
ReasonUser warned: Thread-whining and being dismissive of fellow users.
I gotta say, threads like this are massively stupid. Microsoft has a long history of hiring third parties to make titles for them. Even assuming that you actually know-know what the MS owned studios are working on, you still don't have a useful amount of information. That right there makes the actual OP of zero value whatsoever. Now, for what the thread actually is: backseat driving of Microsoft.
It's entirely possible that there is a single person on this site qualified to backseat drive a platform holder. But if that person exists, they have not presented themselves in this thread. So, maybe we can just stop pretending that internet forum posters are capable of having intelligent thoughts on what an impossibly big entity should do. There is just so much that is opaque that any takes, any thoughts that an amateur has are ill-informed by their very nature. The conditions under which the thoughts are had bares no relation to the actual world where the decisions are made.
Right now we have three pages of people arguing over MS acquiring Playground Games, if that is a good idea or not, if they'll do it or not, blah blah blah. But no one here has even seen the Playground Games contracts. No one knows exactly how much control MS has. For all you know, PG is precluded from developing a racing title for any other publisher. You don't know if Playground Games is committed to develop, say, 3 more entries in the Horizon franchise. .
And that's a massively simplified version of the pieces on the board. There are so many parts that one would need to have a deep understanding of to truly grasp any given situation. There is a reason that people who do this kind of thing professionally - analysts - are so very bad at their job.
How about we leave it to the pros? Threads like this mostly result in low effort concern trolling and little else. Nothing of value is created.
GamingThreadMicrosoft Studios (& Partners) Current and Future Landscape
ReasonUser was banned (24hr): Don't make disingenuous posts
I read what you said. I also think it' very assinine using Google metrics on a game that's way unfinished in terms of marketing when compared to the biggest games in the world aka LOL DOTA. Even Crash has seen its marketing finished.
ReasonUser has been warned: brings offsite drama into the thread in an attempt to villify another user.
Sadly Luu knows what she was doing here and with my personal opinions of her off this site due to bullying and harassment. This is why I can't collaborate with her and got to escalate this out of concern and it's a shame this is why,
EDIT: I have messaged Zhuge and Sweet Nicole to get this addressed.
GamingThreadMicrosoft: Xbox One is the “Highest-Engagement Console” in the Market; Explains Strategy for Gaming
ReasonUser warned: Ignoring mod edit and further context given on the statement
Any Ching JU Want Baby!
It’s all hyberbole PR bullshit. Investors want positive news and somone has to put a positive spin on things. Sony does it Microsoft and Nintendo do it but console sales don’t lie.
GamingThreadMicrosoft: Xbox One is the “Highest-Engagement Console” in the Market; Explains Strategy for Gaming
ReasonMember warned: Insulting other users
Were you around when Sony combined sales into a Playstation family because their sales were terrible? Or were you not even born yet.
Glad to see some folks getting banned, the hate towards MS is amazing to see as if they are directly responsible for some terrible shit in their personal lives.
GamingThreadEverything wrong in the game press industry is your fault
ReasonUser Banned (5 Days): Making light of death threats and toxic gender constructs
There are death threats voiced by people with severe mental health problems... and then there are death threats voiced by teenaged males who aren’t mature enough to regulate their emotions.
I don’t believe that all death threats should be taken seriously, and I think that some of these so-called ‘celebrities’ or high-profile people who discuss or write about gaming are being overly dramatic when they mention these threats against them. In high school, Bob Bukuowski, the high school bully, used to threaten me every single day. That’s just what male teenagers do.
How many gaming journalists have been killed so far for writing about gaming? The answer is none.
GamingThreadEverything wrong in the game press industry is your fault
ReasonUser Banned (Duration Pending): Apologism for a harassment and hate movement.
Pretty much this. Lots of pandering to an audience with obvious social or political framing. Just tell me what you think of a gane in the most objective manner possible without bias or agenda
GamingThreadPolygon: God of War’s director on toxic masculinity and why Kratos had to change
ReasonUser Warned: Derailment - Please don’t use this thread to discuss your opinions of a game you didn’t play.
A friend brought it over and I played for a few hours. The game isn't for me based on the main character. For the developers to say it's combating male stereotypes/masculinity is pretty laughable.
GamingThreadEverything wrong in the game press industry is your fault
ReasonUser Banned (Duration Pending): Apologism for a harassment and hate movement.
Uck, what a bunch of drivel. Gamergate nonsense started because of actual corruption and horrible video game journalism, not because some scores weren't what people wanted...
The gaming journalism industry needs to stop pointing fingers and realize that is THEM that are the real problem. Always have been since the early 2000s. Look at how this horrible author fawns over review scores and metacritics but then blames the mobs for their angry responses. Look at how kotaku reviews games not by quality, but by agenda. And of course, the angry mobs are the problem as well, but your average reader is not. The average reader just wants to be informed, and it's not their fault that kotaku fails miserably at that...
GamingThreadEverything wrong in the game press industry is your fault
ReasonUser Warned: Trolling with off-site baggage
No problem, I can understand you not wanting to draw too much attention to the Zelda fiasco considering your own behaviour after that Jim Sterling review landed back in the gaf days.
Yup. This thing seems so one sided. If you want to talk about fanboyism dont try to direct the attention only one group. If you go to OP's post history you will get a hint.
Lol im out.
ReasonUser Warned: Trolling with false equivalencies
1 2 Switch : 2.29 million
Bloodborne : Can't find exact number but most news shows "over 2 million" thus it's shy of 3 million.
Ergo, "sold about the same."
GamingThreadMicrosoft: Xbox One is the “Highest-Engagement Console” in the Market; Explains Strategy for Gaming
ReasonUser Banned (3 Days): History of platform warring/drive-by posts. Ignoring moderator post.
"Our new strategy is to only report things in a way that looks good for us"
ohkay dude
Just bring 360 and XB original compatability to PC and I don't have to pay attention to your consoles ever kthx
It will definitely play it own segment... let’s see if the engagement can hold the tiny userbase it will have being profitable yet.
Ohhhh but userbase didn’t matter, no?
GamingThreadMicrosoft: Xbox One is the “Highest-Engagement Console” in the Market; Explains Strategy for Gaming
ReasonUser Banned (1 Day): Platform warring. Ignoring mod post.
And it goes right along with what we expected from Microsoft pr machine to say to mask their issues and losing market share :) to their investors. Every year its a new phrase whenever their sales arent up to snuff with the competition. Typical indeed. They make their pr talk and consumers read through it and interpret, that is all.
Great job all around.
GamingThreadMicrosoft: Xbox One is the “Highest-Engagement Console” in the Market; Explains Strategy for Gaming
ReasonUser Warned: System Wars
Stop being defensive, this is typical Ms marketing spin because they lost this gen. Your are only showing your true colors.
Man, if you read this bullshit often, it's really easy to write and replicate.
GamingThreadMicrosoft: Xbox One is the “Highest-Engagement Console” in the Market; Explains Strategy for Gaming
ReasonUser Warned: System Wars
MS all over this gen. a load of market spin and utter bollocks and no focus on what’s actually important...games. Yeah, it gets said a lot, but it’s crazy how everybody knows what they need other than Microsoft.
