Kamiya: “Those s&%*s at MS… are they f$^%ing with me…?”

If that's all you got, I actually feel sortof sad for you.

But you are so wrong!

Of course games get cancelled. Studios get closed. Simba's dad dies. . . It's the circle of life. But if you don't got shit, then you need to show some dedication to your fanbase and your gamers and make some shit. You can try to rub this with Sony's stank all you like and it's awfully cute watching you try because that is a clear mark of desperation that fools exactly no one.

No, this is a problem with XBox and certain sections of its fanbase that goes far beyond the cancellation of one game. You guys are not challenging Microsoft at all. So much so, forget about me for a moment, your own goddamn CEO hit twitter and told you a game cancellation was a good thing. That is the level of rube they treat you like. You don't have enough games in your "XBox exclusive" lineup to really bother me at this point. Scalebound dead and gone? That's a horrible thing for many XBox owners but apparently, it's good for some of you die-hards.

One day, it will dawn on you, though. It's not Sony's house that is on fire. Hell, Nintendo is in a better spot than XBox is if not for the sake of the 3DS and soon the Switch. Pokemon games drop and it rains money for them. What do you have? What did you have five years ago? ...ten years ago? THAT is a list that is shrinking. I have news for you. I'm not even your problem. You are your problem. As long as you rubber stamp every Phantom Dust, Fable Legends, Scalebound, as well as let tried and trues like Halo or Gears of War turn into a pale shadow of their former selves it's nothing but giggles and Schnapps for me bro.

You pray that this was a Sony fanboy problem. God, you are reaching for that brush or any other brush to paint this with, but that's why nothing has really changed. Phil took control, took credit for doing the painfully obvious, and you bought a multiplatbox on cruise control ever since. Sorry to be the messenger, but you have a 100 million dollar controller and a two-bit console with dick for exclusives. The day will come, soon, when I won't even be bothered to argue with ya'll any more. It's clear to all of us. You want nothing, you will get nothing, and you'll be the happiest little idiot in the village for all the trouble.

@Shewgenja: feel how you want, you cows always have an agenda.

Maybe your an exception, but you are a cow with a track record so I'm lumping you with the rest of those punks

I tell you what. That's cool. I'll take that at face value, but I do argue with this. If I was what you say I am, okay, then why would I be essentially giving Lems tips on how they can make things better for themselves? If I was the Joker and just wanted to see the world burn. . . Why would I point at what happened to the PS3 ten years ago and say you have a chance to change your fate just like they did?

If you have an answer for that and it's somewhere along the lines of "I see your plan, now, you want XBox to go bankrupt by funding a lot more games." then I will live with that. I will laugh, but I will live with it.

LMAO. He is not.

Maybe you can answer the above question then. What's my vast conspiracy, oh gateway of divine wisdom and knower of secrets?

No. Its nothing to do with a conspiracy. Its the elaborate bullshit posting/threads. Kind of what you have displayed here. You are the mirror image of Dynamitecop.

In what part it say IT was my FAULT or OUR TEAM fault.

Oh please lets ignore sources claiming MS at fault and claiming MS stopped paying,much like they did with indies last gen and much like they wanted Darkside to made Phantom Dust with just 5 million dollars,when that was the game original budget when it was online only,before MS wanted a single player and started to make damns and change on daily basis..

If I ever become as predictable as DynamiteCop, I will remove myself lol

Well, the real story is out, basically PG missed MULTIPLE deadlines.

On top of this they apparently forced senior developers off of Scalebound in late 2016, after the game had already been delayed. Apparently when this happened it was the nail in the coffin for the game. They apparently missed major deadlines that Microsoft had set in order to get the game back on track to the point where Microsoft stopped funding the project and finally cancelled it. From the same sources the game was also still having major performance issues.

People are pushing the idea that Microsoft took this lightly, Microsoft had the most to lose with their decision. They bought the IP, funded the project, paid to advertise, gave it two E3 demonstrations, delayed it and gave them more time to work on it and now that it's cancelled they spent all that money and have nothing as a result.

The Last Guardian is awesome. Have you played it, yet?

You'd think the publisher had infinite money to make games happen or something. What's Xbox about these days?

@ConanTheStoner: the thing that everyone is overlooking here is the fact that MS is so far behind that the higher ups aren't going to greenlight random projects.

All these fake crocodile tear crying cows around here seem to forget the reason the PS4 launched with no major new exclusives and had none for the first two years was because of Sony's position in the game at the time. Sony was in pretty dire straights before the PS4 launched and they intentionally launched the console with marketing multiplats as first party games because their people didn't want to spend money on potential AAA flops losing big.

Fast forward to the present where they sold 58 million consoles and everything's peachy and sure they can greenlight everything.

Xbox is now in the position Sony was at the beginning of the gen. They barely clawed back to respectability and releasing a shit game is probably not in the cards for the people calling shots.

Seriously look at how cows around here trash good MS games, if this game released and got a 5 like DriveClub or The Order, the cows would ride it to moo nirvana. I'm pretty sure the Xbox people look at things like that too.

My opinion is they need to go back to Live Aracade style releases. But I think their real direction is going to be turning Scorpio into a Steambox and riding 4K hype with Forza 7.

Please understand, HigherUpBone isn't for games, cancellations are good. Beatings will continue until morale improves. It's a good thing the "Higher Ups" let Master Chief Collection out of the gate half working, though. It's what's good for gamers.

HigherUpBone, it's by the gamers and for the gamers. . . and you will LIKE IT goddamnit!

It's a pretty massive stretch. It's basic pr. Just because you want to shit on your former employer, doesn't necessarily mean you should. Because Platinum still does contract jobs, if they start bad mouthing Microsoft, that might make other publishers think twice on that front. So he wasn't going to suddenly be like "well they cancelled my game, **** those guys amirite?"

You should just stay out of this conversation El Tormented. Nobody and I mean nobody cares what you have to say on the topic. You know as much as anyone else in this thread except you're extremely biased and stupid.