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So, can we like bury Microsoft now? Can we just not talk about them as a legitimate gaming option? Because it feels like they were in a desperation mode already, and to get destroyed by 3 consoles for the last 3 seperate consoles the last 3 months, including the "new" consoles launch month.

can they just sort of, i don't know, go away or something?

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I miss Start/Select :(

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I feel like a small part of the Switch's success right now in the present is how badly the big boys of game development are shitting the bed right now. On one side, you've got lootboxes in a single player experience, a publisher that tried to profit from a man's death with DLC, progression in multiplayer being completely random and tied to lootboxes, XP earnings being secretly taken away from you while the developers lie to your fucking face because they don't want you to earn lootboxes and would rather that you pay for them, publishing studios claiming that developing games is expensive and that's why microtransactions have to be in them meanwhile they turn them off in the biggest release they have all year and tell their investors it won't affect their earnings, here comes UFC 3 with a shitshow of a lootbox system... and on the other, I'm sitting here with my Switch laughing. I'd like to believe that some people are in the same boat as me where Nintendo is looking far more attractive standing next to its friends by comparison because they're that ugly right now.

I think this little personal anecdote might sum up the big boys best for me. Every once and awhile me and the guys at work go down for a coffee run in the afternoon and I've been grabbing Doritos every once and awhile to take a shot at winning an Xbox One X via a contest currently going on. My plan if I win? To sell the stupid thing, not to actually play it. That's how turned off I am, where I wouldn't even indulge them if a free console were to come my way.

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@jinzo9988: "Publisher that tried to profit from a man's death"

What happened?

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@guudgidga: Forthog Orc-slayer was supposed to be a $5 piece of DLC for Shadow of War as a day-1 DLC option. The proceeds go to the family of a member of Monolith's team who had died of cancer during the making of the game. Sounds great, right? Well, if you read the fine print, $3.50 of the $5 per sale was to go to the family. It only applied to sales in the US, and further still certain states were excluded from the charity. So essentially WB/Monolith would've made 100% of the sale in certain states and everywhere outside of the US.

The backlash they got was nuclear to say the least and eventually it came to be that Forthog was released for free. It was the right move in the end, but once again somebody over there misstepped horribly, and WB are the folks that were too busy working on DLC to patch and fix Arkham Origins. They were the folks that outsourced Arkham Knight's PC port to a tiny studio, they knew it was a fucking mess of a game because it was a mess a year before its initial release date and did not call for a delay to fix it and just released it anyway. Given Arkham Origin's treatment and Arkham Knight's state on the PC, I think they banked on Steam still not having a refund policy for Knight. It's broken? Who cares. They can't get a refund and it'll sell anyway. Of course, Steam introduced the refund policy in June 2015 and Arkham Knight came out weeks later so there went that, but here comes WB offering full refunds to everyone that wanted one because it looks good in the press... as if that was needed because Steam offered that anyway.

Point being... when WB has that kind of track record, one can call Forthog a misstep in planning. I'm more inclined to believe some bloodsucker over there wanted to profit from a man's death, much like I'm inclined to believe EA is deliberately sitting in boardrooms conducting research and planning out how to exploit people with gambling addictions via lootboxes and how to create new addicts rather than simply misreading the market.

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So many third-party developers...

So many millions in sales lost...

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The Nintendo Switch doing well on Black Friday. Fentenyl time for the game industry.

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@Megavideogamer: My cousin just died last week because of fentenyl...no joke and not funny.

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