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Hub Cat posted:Investor Filings are public: Page 111 as written on the pages watermark, not the page of the PDF 
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Hub Cat posted:How much of Raven is even left? It's been 12 years since they last developed an independent title. p97 posted:Mr. Kotick’s term of employment under the
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deep dish peat moss posted:Probably. They really want "Xbox" to be synonymous with "Games" and they're working hard on turning every desktop PC in the world into an Xbox, the best way to do that is by owning a large chunk of the market and making it primarily available through Xbox / the Windows Game Store. They want to do what Epic was doing with EGS but they have way more money to throw at it. I'm just hoping they don't start snatching up smaller/indie devs too once they realize how much of a market there is there At least so far they've been releasing on Steam and I hope they'll keep doing that, but I think they're eventually going to go MS Store exclusive again and say "get game pass, stupid". Which sucks because Microsoft's store is the worst of all the PC stores.
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Jan 18, 2022 20:00
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Microsoft doesn't really need to quit Steam, their strategy is to overprice their games on Steam and offer minimal discounts so users are encouraged to play on Game Pass instead Like when Forza Horizon 4 came to Steam (over two years after its original launch) they priced it like a brand new full price AAA title... or you could play it on Game Pass FH5 is out now and yet FH4 still hasn't even had any permanent price drops, it's still £55 to buy outside of sale events repiv fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Jan 18, 2022 |
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Halo is literally on Steam so I don’t think their gambit is to corner the market through exclusivity their strat is to offer ridiculously good value via game pass, and buying up a massive older library of classic games is a pretty sure fire way to do that gently caress Id sub to gamepass just to affordably play the older cod campaigns of the MW to Blops 2 era, or Infinite Warfare
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Jan 18, 2022 20:09
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Yeah Steam is doing amazing numbers for Microsoft. If they aren’t the largest non-Valve publisher on the platform right now they will be. I can’t see any reason for them to leave it now.
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Jan 18, 2022 20:13
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What in the entire loving world https://twitter.com/gregisenberg/status/1483432456548196358
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Ragequit posted:What in the entire loving world lmao. just lmao
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Ragequit posted:What in the entire loving world This acquisition opens up an exciting new future where Microsoft pays me to play Heroes of the Storm for some reason.
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what's "play-to-earn", is it some NFT concept or something
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Feels Villeneuve posted:what's "play-to-earn", is it some NFT concept or something yep, imagine if when you paid for cosmetics in an mmo or whatever you actually were "paying" for a crypto token instead that you could then cash out for money later (lol)
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Cowcaster posted:yep, imagine if when you paid for cosmetics in an mmo or whatever you actually were "paying" for a crypto token instead that you could then cash out for money later (lol) drat...... imagine if i could sell all my vendor trash in Skyrim for hundreds of thousands of dollars of crypto. the game's price tag would pay for itself rapidly
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this guy just posted an article on it just a few minutes ago https://ez.substack.com/p/on-the-value-of-time
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Feels Villeneuve posted:what's "play-to-earn", is it some NFT concept or something https://twitter.com/gregisenberg/status/1483433973711781891 In short: *hand jerk motion*
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Ragequit posted:What in the entire loving world I can't even figure out what this person is even saying. Clicking into the conversation doesn't provide any clarity either. Sounds like he's upset that Blizz sold for $70b and the people who play their games isn't getting a cut? Was there something at some point that made this an expectation?
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Feels Villeneuve posted:drat...... imagine if i could sell all my vendor trash in Skyrim for hundreds of thousands of dollars of crypto. the game's price tag would pay for itself rapidly no, no, you don't sell stuff for crypto, you purchase stuff using fiat currency and then the guys say "here's some dogecoin!"
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Ragequit posted:https://twitter.com/gregisenberg/status/1483433973711781891 This mans mind is broken.
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So in theory the act of me playing counter strike is creating content for the people I'm playing against which contributes to the health and sales of the game. So I deserve a taste. I should be able to dip my beak so to speak
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Cowcaster posted:this guy just posted an article on it just a few minutes ago https://ez.substack.com/p/on-the-value-of-time I scrolled to the end for the hell of it as I am not going to read a long article from this dude, but the last two paragraphs stood out: quote:When I quit MMORPGs like EverQuest and World of Warcraft, one of the main reasons was that I felt like it had become a job rather than something I enjoyed. Had I been paid - and been able to make money off of it - I would have kept playing, because the idea that I was being “productive” with my leisure time would have incentivized me to continue to do something I genuinely hated.
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Velocity Raptor posted:Was there something at some point that made this an expectation? Crypto brainworms.
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Hey, look at this, which I'm sure is unrelated to the mid 2023 transaction date: Yeah, it's a fairly compelling (business) reason to keep him on till 2023 and oust him immediately after. Would have been nice to see the journalist well you know  Feels Villeneuve posted:what's "play-to-earn", is it some NFT concept or something Hub Cat fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Jan 18, 2022 |
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Velocity Raptor posted:I can't even figure out what this person is even saying. Clicking into the conversation doesn't provide any clarity either. Sounds like he's upset that Blizz sold for $70b and the people who play their games isn't getting a cut? Was there something at some point that made this an expectation?
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Basically there's a certain brand of internet person that thinks every single little thing in life should be transactional. You know, sociopaths.
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Microsoft is slowly turning into a cheese factory.
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Play posted:Apropos is one word. I was about to confidently tell you you were being confidently incorrect and a propos (french for "to the purpose") was right, but hey what do you know: Both are correct. So I guess we were both wrong! It's a lovely morning in the village and we are terrible goons.
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it's about 50% grifting people who believe it when you tell them "earn money by playing games all day!" and about 50% grifting "always a bigger fool" grifters who're trying to get in on the top level of the pyramid scheme early and cash out
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Cowcaster posted:yep, imagine if when you paid for cosmetics in an mmo or whatever you actually were "paying" for a crypto token instead that you could then cash out for money later (lol) I made my first million on Skyrim Skooma futures 
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Mordja posted:Basically there's a certain brand of internet person that thinks every single little thing in life should be transactional. You know, sociopaths. Screaming at my son's 1st-grade flag football ref: "We do many things that do not benefit our bank accounts or our career trajectories, and we should meet those who actively seek to turn our joy into labor with the disgust they deserve!"
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sebmojo posted:I was about to confidently tell you you were being confidently incorrect and a propos (french for "to the purpose") was right, but hey what do you know: Both are correct. So I guess we were both wrong! It's a lovely morning in the village and we are terrible goons. I would say a propos would only be right if the words around it are in French, but I'll admit I didn't know that and the morning sunlight is indeed beautiful in this terrible goonvillage
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Nova Drift's Enemies 2.0 update (or, 1/3 of it apparently) released today. I haven't tried it yet but the dev notes that while this one took a long time to come out this was a tough update that should make future ones easier so hopefully we get more soon.
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Ragequit posted:Screaming at my son's 1st-grade flag football ref: "We do many things that do not benefit our bank accounts or our career trajectories, and we should meet those who actively seek to turn our joy into labor with the disgust they deserve!"
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Hub Cat posted:Yes. If you want a picture of the future, imagine being a WoW gold seller – for ever Oh my god. We're going to have to report to in-game jobs in order to earn in-game money in order to continue playing the loving game aren't we. This is Hell. edit: And then eventually within the game will be a mini-game that we can play in order to make the drudgery of the in-game job more palatable. A sort of escapism, if you will
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Cowcaster posted:like if your point is that's some ornate purple prose then go nuts but if you aren't instinctually disgusted by crypto assholes attempting to monetize every aspect of your life that's a you problem not the writer's problem
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Cowcaster posted:like if your point is that's some ornate purple prose then go nuts but if you aren't instinctually disgusted by crypto assholes attempting to monetize every aspect of your life that's a you problem not the writer's problem The latter was exactly my point. I am inundated with crypto and betting ads everywhere saying I am an idiot for not making every aspect of my life generate value (like the satire quote), and it's a bit much. And the cherry on top is that all of that dumb poo poo is literally destroying the planet. Ragequit fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Jan 18, 2022 |
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Oh my god. We're going to have to report to in-game jobs in order to earn in-game money in order to continue playing the loving game aren't we. This is Hell. My corporation in X4 is worth two billion and employs thousands of employees. Imagine if it was worth two billion in internet fun dollars and I had to rely on you, SolidSnakesBandana, to ship energy cells from my Mercury station to my Venus station forever Also I didn't pay you except for the hiring fee, and you don't own anything, and I didn't have a corporation because I'd have to do the same thing for the guy who's been playing X since 1999
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Here's me, actually playing games that I like, instead of games that I hate
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TeaJay posted:Here's me, actually playing games that I like, instead of games that I hate Where's the earning potential in that?
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How old is that guy? He's like some sort of Anti-Millennial. He's who the Millennial fights during the climax of the movie.
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From everything I've seen, if you want a game that's actually just a job and isn't fun you should play EVE Online.
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Looking forward to the dystopian future where I get to pay taxes on the money I earn from playing games 12 hours a day but don't have an employer so I can't get health insurance and don't have a job history so I can never get a real job.
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