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If the EU regulators play Diablo....they 100% main as a necromancer because they just resurrected this bitch from the grave lol. FTC isn't an issue as they will lose in court if they try that route so it's definitely a lot of pressure on the CMA and they will go through without their approval if they need a work around. They don't rule the world so their verdict is only applicable to the UK.

Twitter a crazy console war battle ground again today i imagine.

The 12 month showcase is only possible once you are in state where you are actually releasing multiple games per quarter...n we're clearly not there yet. It sounds like it might actually be a thing this year but we'll see. I like knowing what they are working on that's further out so having a mixture is good unless one day you have the 12 month show (can't miss your dates) and another one looking out further than that.

Really pumped for the June show either way, love me some gamepass news.

I play on console or my phone. Before I got the series x i played on my laptop and it was a truly poor experience for the most part. Certain games just would crash and i couldn't play them and my progress wasn't always saving. I can't say I would recommend it to anyone or willingly play it or i had other options available. Not sure if they improved it in the past few years...but I've no need to test it out.

@Kaloudz the CMA protected you!!!

@Kaloudz ROFL where you been dude! Look it up. Bill is Dr. Evil ....but with hair....and a bit of a tan.

@Kaloudz folks went right to the too and blamed Bill Gates didn't they? Microchips in the vaccine if i recall correctly? Explained the chip shortages.

Procrastination for the win!!!

I still don't know when I'll actually get around to it but it's going to be fully optimized by the time I do.

In that case it's definitely dead cuz they all expected that the CMA was going to approve as well lol.

I'll wait until the final verdict here...The corpse of the deal is a starting to smell so it needs to be revived or buried.

I've been saying it's a lock since day one but politics got involved with the CMA so I'm assuming the deal is dead. The EU has to approve it to bring it back to life, but to avoid further disappointment I'm just saying it's dead

@Baler that's great....but the world don't revolve around you lol. They stated it's been heavily requested so that's why they did it. Not sure what's hard to comprehend here. Again this ain't doing nothing special for me either but don't see why it's something to complain about.

@Baler they clearly said it's very beneficial for forge creators and has been heavily requested....so yes fis counter seems to be important. Like you it doesn't do anything for me but if it allows better forge maps for me then I'm down.

I love infinite and they definitely improved a ton this season. Hopefully next season is another hit and they can just keep em coming.

I thought that was just a white switch. Good to see he can still have shelf surprises after the month they had. They definitely aren't making their own handheld, just going to partner up with everyone else. The local play for gamepass is a great feature for the ROG though.

@NEStalgia Redfall should start getting better reviews if that's the case.

I don't need the cards but if I could get 1TB under $100 CAD i might get it for convenience one day. At this price it's still too much as it would be $200 taxes in....so eeewwwwww!

I don't understand how you send $7B and just say see you at launch. Clearly they plan aquiring more studios.... maybe an official onboarding plan... event a power point presentation.... could be helpful. Maybe review what the studios are working on when acquired and tell them where you could help and how? You know...take ownership of what you purchased. Like i said in a different post... don't be up their asses.... just play with the Cornhole so they know your there. It's 2023 Phil....butt stuff is totally okay.

I've been looking forward to this one, i like the art style and the whole Alice in Wonderland thing sounds interesting.

Lol I'm literally listening to Dee Batch lose his marbles on RDX about the state this game was released in as i come across this article.

This game deserves to die as a message to Xbox that this isn't okay. No one made them release this...was the management team again in the dark as to its state...if so that's just admitting you ain't doing your job. Someone needs firing and it ain't at Arkane.

But since it took them a year or more to do anything about how they delayed Halo after having all that 3rd party marketing I'm doubtful they will do anything.

Said it many times, love Phil and his vision and all, but they need someone with more grit running game development. Who's checking in with the studios, holding them accountable, giving them support...pre launch support to be specific. I'm hearing they sent a team to help Arkane....post launch? Any other company we'd see folks updating their LinkedIn a long time ago.

@TakeItEasy I think in general 30FPS isn't something gamers want and see as a failure. I'm
not techy and definitely see it that way. It's the state of the market so don't expect anything different from the public if you release 30fps

Looking forward to this. The Xbox showcases are the only events that I actually watch vs just glancing at what's been announced and maybe watching a trailer.

They definitely put a lot of pressure on the show from a general public viewpoint but I'm just excited to see what's coming to gamepass that we didn't know about. Just please.... please don't announce any dates that you don't know 100% you're going to hit. Maybe just hold off until it's gone gold and has a few patches ready before announcing a date

@awp69 i agree it's still one of the best shooter campaigns and multiplayer was amazing and i only came across the game at the end of its life.

Let's be honest, they are making cash off of APEX and won't do anything to potentially drop their engagement over there. The multiplayer servers still down for Titanfall 1&2?

So by this point in most other companies there would be heads on chopping blocks no? Someone inside the company approved this for release....who? They delayed it and didn't have to launch it this year but they chose to...but why? What state was this in last year?

They really need to get more help to overlook the studios and/or fire some of the current folks doing this cuz they clearly just suck at their job lol. I imagine arcane wanted more time? Could they have thought this would be ready and they screwed up? Bit again before a date was given i would have thought booty or his equivalent would have gone out to see the product and should have said no, more time in the oven.

It's hard to pick stuff from the list! But overall good to see an actual ad....now will I actually see it outside of me specifically clicking the link to watch it? Time will tell but hopefully they pushing the ads out

This game will be puring like a kitten when it comes to gamepass lol. I'm curious if FOMO is their justification for launching buggy games on purpose or is FOMO covering up the cracks of unintentional broken launches? Honestly there's no reason for them to hold a game back if it's just being bought up in the broken state anyways. Day one players are the final beta testers nowadays.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001lbd3

Full interview with Sam's, pretty interesting listen for those interested. More is discussed in there than articles wrote about.

@Krazee5255 i like Phil, seems like a great dude and is clearly a gamer. Without any actual knowledge of how he manages I get the impression that he's too soft n cuddly n needs someone sterner to help with actually running things. This isn't a video game commune, it's a business with customers to please. Glad the devs have kombucha on tap and all but please get your games out polished and in a timely manner. Again.... just getting the impression they are very happy go lucky and it's why things are like they are. Don't go full Kotik on them....but halfway between the two.

I like their comments afterwards that their decision is global and it can't go through without their approval. Hopefully it rubs the EU in the wrong way. It's all just hopes n dreams now.

But really they need to focus on their actual games because it really does feel like this deal has just taken all of their attention away from what they are actually supposed to be doing. Let the lawyers lawyer and focus on your own stuff. Give booty a call and ask him what's going on, when have you actually done something? Can I have proof? Lol.

@Kaloudz i mean everyone thought that the CMA was going to approve the day before they didn't so really I'm not taking any previous logic into account here. Basically its dead until the EU goes full necromancer on it.

It's funny that the CMA is saying this is bad for competition and all the Xbox cloud competitors are saying that they want this deal because it will be beneficial for them. Almost like....the CMAs decision wasn't based on rational reasoning. They definitely trying to stack their deck for the appeal. But alas it's all about the EU now.

Folks just assume it's dead until EU says otherwise. If they say no as well the ABK shareholders will take that $3B fee and carry on. I expect Xbox will have the next marketing deal for CoD no matter what happens and Xbox will definitely pursue other opportunities. Pretty sure ABK was a once in a lifetime opportunity that came up and wasn't actually something they actually had in their roadmap. So get it approved or blocked, but get back on track.

@Jill_Sandwich they wanted ABK for mobile not cloud. The cloud thing just seems odd. Even now Xbox isn't making money from cloud gaming, it's just a perk of GPU.

@Kaloudz again I'm looking at it like it's dead and EU has to bring it back to life or just leave it in the grave. Nothing will happen with the CMA before the EU decision and if they block it then the shareholders of ABK will just take their $3B and it's done n dusted. If they pass it then we get to get excited again. The CMA actually mentioned in a BBC article where Sam's just slammed the UK as a place to invest in that their decision is global and deal can't go through at all. That seems like an overreach and I'm sure they don't want it to be just UK gamers benefiting from their protection while the rest of the world suffers with increased gamepass value. But until EU says otherwise.... we're just poking a corpse with a stick currently.

Lol I just recently deleted it to make space for some kids games. Once I'm done with Outriders finally I'll get this back n carry on with it. Was fantastic.

@Kaloudz ROFL great comparison. Nickelback gets so much hate but they have some solid tunes. But they need to just compete now. I'm treating this deal as dead and if the EU wants to play as a necromancer and bring it back to life then do be it.... but it's dead now

@Kaloudz time to let the woke ones to go to bed. I'm not sure if Phil survives this or not, but the ones below him looking after studios will either increase in number and have less studio's to look after in greater detail or might be on the chopping blocks. Xbox just needs to embrace that the public will always ***** on them so become the wrestling heel n take them gloves off. Buy n close square lol. But i definitely expect CoD marketing to be with Xbox from now on. Get them maps, early access n everything else Sony got. Make Xbox the default version and port to Sony. Give Jim his nightmares of an inferior CoD!

@NeutronBomb or not indeed lol.

They have stated multiple times they are after mobile as that's where the growth is. I believe in this week's Xboxera podcast they were talking about potential future targets abd Sega actually has a big mobile presence. So I'd say them. It definitely something with a mobile presence though.

Console market is small and stagnant so they will be looking for the big growth area's which are mobile and PC.

Hopefully put some major focus on internal management of the studios they have cuz it looks very loosey goosey

@themightyant the optics could be significant for business investment as a whole in the UK if the EU passes it. Many of you have stated that the UK government does things weird. Why invest in the UK when just a few hours away you get better treatment? So yeah it's coming off a bit childish but at the same time it's a hot topic for the government and business in general. So a good string to pluck.

@Sol4ris i don't think Nadela is harmed by any of this even Phil. They definitely need more focusing the studios and marketing, I'm seeing some Starfield stuff started today so we'll see how it goes. But I've said it a bunch that Phil sold the dream of gaming to MS but they need someone else to implement it. Not sure he needs to be axed for that to happen but they need more sleepy vs woke folks below to get things moving

So we're looking at a year plus of this still. If EU blocks is it officially dead? I do want me some ABK in gamepass but i don't want a year plus of this at the same time

ROFL damn I didn't see that one coming. The reasoning is kinda crap. Seems they are blocking it because it would require work on their part? Well, is this it then? Next month EU has their verdict, if it's different than clearly this will carry on for a lot longer. Not sure if they can appeal this but the decision that we require a deal that doesn't have any work for us doesn't seem like sound logic. Anyways....this is WOW!

They gotta be putting them chip's towards xcloud servers vs making consoles right? I wonder if looking at the roadmap internally they saw that they had a drought coming for software and decided to build up the server's before focusing on making more consoles when the games actually start rolling out. ABK they were confident about but always was a risk so i don't think they would have decided solely on that.

End of the day they rich as ***** still and Sony hopefully keeps giving them hard competition to protect our wallets. If Jimbo isn't lying for a change and all them Sony customers leave the platform in droves they might become arrogant like Sony.

I'll wait until later but i just never play anything day one. Extra incentive here as it kinda feels like it's coming in a bit hot. Still gonna make my buddies play 3 player co-op.... just after a few patches

I've only started with the series X for Xbox and didn't following gaming media before either so really didn't know all the happenings of the Xbox one launch outside of reading year's after that it was bad. Media wise series X launch with a lot of buzz but they definitely drop the ball often and last year was really poor. Now personally i still have more than i could possibly play but the vibe around the platform was bad. This year they got off to a great start and then just fell flat on their faces again. Hopefully it's just the distraction of ABK because they really need to get back on track. I still think it's time for some new blood to come in and ensure that the studios are running smoothly and being held accountable and have support where needed. Phil sold the dream but now it's time for someone to come in and deliver the dream. He doesn't need to leave, just have some new folk's run things to report to him. Greeny is fun but legit they don't market anything outside of a tweet. He's just gotta go. If it's a budget thing then he hasn't convinced them for a bigger budget yet so still a failure in my eyes.

They would definitely have to drop their pricing and add other content in there. I don't see how this would be viable for them, the massive negative news would definitely cripple them as let's be honest they are pushing gamepass. Xbox has been suffering as a result of them focusing on the ABK deal and on PC growth. Gamepass was a massive reason why i switched from playstation and got my series X.

Interesting talking point but i think this would kill all of their gaming division and big papa Microsoft would drop the business. So i don't see them ever doing it.

@Kaloudz it's odd that your entire business is reliant on a third party product. It's either a bs lie or a true statement of your missmanagement.

Sooooo ready for this saga to be over. Also sooo ready for some Diablo in gamepass. I really hope they do revive older IP and make more kids/fam games.

I'm just carrying on in outriders and kids want to play some Minecraft or Minecraft Legends so I'll be messing about in those with them as well

@Clankylad I really enjoyed the walking dead games, still have the last one to complete....i think it's been added to gamepass a few months ago? But yeah a lot of achievements and a fantastic story.

Now this might be a stretch here but give it some thought....what if....if...they are trying to mend relations with Square and are being disappointed it didn't achieve some unreachable goal? It definitely sounds like square.

Now this is all roumor but it doesn't make sense. You have a new IP in a niche genre that's way out of what you expect from the studio being shadow dropped and excluding switch and PlayStation....and in your service. It generated so much hype and positive vibes I can't imagine what expectations they had to be disappointed. It was high in the Steam charts and i believe tango officially said it exceed their expectations no?

@SAH77777 thats weird. So they testing that FOMO real hard. How you gonna buy a game knowing it's going to be F2P within a year? It's reverse beta tester pay....you pay to be a tester vs them paying you?

@NeutronBomb CMA announces next week and a month later is EU. FTC has been told to their faces they are a joke and don't matter, deal will go through with CMA/EU approval