As long as the story is still compelling. If they've been pressured to make it a 'saga' as opposed to another trilogy for the sake of stretching it out, I'm against it. If they've felt the need to make it a saga because they've found they have more to tell, then I'm okay with that
Woooooow. I almost don't believe this, its surreal for a giant company to do a 180 like this. Because of the policies I was set on PS4. Now they've changed, I can finally consider the Xbox One, now that all I have to weigh up is the games. A little late, but better late than never, well done Microsoft
@The1stFishBone Gears 2 and 3 were very solid sequels that introduced fun new gameplay features and tweaks in both single and multiplayer that improved the game, as well as vastly expanding on the first scenario, environment and variety-wise. Gears Judgement was the only step backwards quality or improvement-wise, where he was absent.
It works really well for steam, but I think the console market is too used to discs and non-restrictions to go fully digital. We also don't trust that given a fully digital model, that we would actually be offered the benefits, like say, all games becoming cheaper minus physical packaging, disc and shipping costs - and I doubt that would happen straight away too. The PR behind Xbox One hasn't given any good reasons or benefits for the consumer in return for being always connected, and accepting restrictions from sharing or re-selling or buying secondhand games.
The ballooning development costs of AAA titles are a real concern though. These big games cost so much to make, no wonder they pursue DLC and have begun to demonise the used-game market. I mean Tomb Raider DID sell like 3 million + units and they said it wasn't successful. Something isn't working here.
Still, the consumer should NOT be punished for it. By the way, why does everyone hate this guy again? Nothing he's said here isn't necessarily untrue or irrelevant
I agree, I don't really recall anyone talking about the benefits of what they're doing? Anything they say seems more like excuses for it. In support of it, they mostly just draw comparisons between smartphones and stuff, arguing that we as people are just headed in the direction of always 'being connected', so they're following the trend. But apart from the benefits of cloud computing they seem to really be shooting themselves in the foot with how they've presented it.
A self-professed engineer at microsoft wrote a big message on pastebin that actually gave reasons for it. His main sort of argument was that they were intending to essentially turn xbox into steam. I could maybe get behind that if the price of games drops and they had similar sales etc etc, but I just don't see that happening. I still like discs, and no restrictions on my discs and gaming.
I don't think people are ready to go fully digital yet, and we're not trusting enough either, I doubt any major publisher would move into a fully digital model instantly and actually give consumers the full benefits it entails (like cheaper games)
Loved hearing the Insomniac guy in the Killzone stage demo talk about it too, something like "I think when a gamer buys their disc they can do whatever they want with it", totally unconcerned about used games.
Its so nice and fresh to hear, I'm so used to hearing companies pushing online passes, DRM, DLC to nickel and dime people... Its nice to hear people not thinking oppressively and anti-consumer
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