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Does anyone make an FPS for single players anymore without CoOp or AI assisted players if you can't do CoOp? I see even the new Warhammer is CoOp based. COD campaign mode seems to be the only one these days.

I consider Starfield a full on RPG and not an FPS.

I must be one of the few who doesn't care, because I never played the Elder Scrolls games lol.

I’ve found it a bit meh so far, I had a laugh making my character but that’s been the best bit! I don’t see why it has to run at 30FPS, I must be hard to please with the graphics haha? But it seems a bit bland. I’ll give it more time though to see how it goes. I haven’t got too far into it yet.

The only thing I was interested in with this desk was COD coming day and date, as that isn’t going to happen, most likely due to deals with other platforms, then I couldn’t care less if it’s successful or not. My internet is lost in it. Just building up for to be honest, this plus the awful new dashboard. And I’m not bothered by Starfield. Hmm if COD comes to Nintendo next platform and it’s a hybrid again I may trade my Series X in for it!

@Chaotic_Neutral Yeah I'll give Starfield a go but my interest in the game has severely lapsed, not excited really for it.

Well that sounds like no new COD game releases will be on Game Pass for several years then? Kinda makes the merger pointless.

@Sifi Rubbish, also PS5 has had games only available on next gen from first and third party. Xbox screwed the pooch with its latest update, showed its true colours where it is heading. It’s hilarious to claim the PS4 of all things is holding back development, no, the 2 years of lockdown did that.
Oh and a few games on XSX are also on XBOne still.

With Microsoft turning it’s Xbox Series X into a £450 advetising box, I won’t be buying another Xbox that’s for damn sure. I’ll stick to Nintendo, maybe PlayStation too.

I wonder if they showed him their new console? Or has he not left Microsoft yet?

@NeoRatt And I never stated you cannot download your games you own? You made that up in your own mind from my comment.

You won't be able to get anymore content on them, that's the issue. As in a digital only device.

@Sol4ris Incorrect, I HATE the new dashboard, seriously hate the thing, I don’t enjoy turning my console on anymore! So please stop labelling everyone as a Sony fanboy as that’s a weak pathetic argument and makes you look like a corporate shill. I seriously do NOT think it’s wrong for anyone to want to be able to customise the new dashboard, just like we could with the old one, to look like how we want it.

Proof of the danger of a digital only future. The Series S store will close one day… once in the digital train unless it’s in PC, you’ll be forced to upgrade consoles forever so long as backwards compatibility exists.

@robe Yes very true, ignorant fans really. Not realising the issue isn’t oh just click up to the tiny icons at the top of the screen. No it’s the relentless MUCH bigger tiles of ads on your screen, on a premium product you bought, and a service you subscribe to.

I would say it’s like buying a car new only it’s covered in advertisement stickers and billboards on the roof, but even that misses out the Gamepass sub bit.

Just tested mine and I have this latest update. So now I literally have one line of my stuff. And without scrolling down now I have a line of bigger icons that are ads. Browse the store. These are the latest games blah blah blah.
Counted 15 lines of ads now. I cannot move my pins to the top either. I have to scroll through the ads to get to the 2 I'm graciously allowed to create.

It's just really crap, really crap. Designed purely by the marketing team. They have made an already bad dashboard even worst.

So not only are they refusing to address the utter up selling ad infested disaster the new dashboard is, they are now making it even worst by removing what little access you had to 'your' games. It has actually put me right off even using my Xbox. Neither Sony nor Nintendo do this. In fact I may trade the Series X in for the new Switch when ever it's launched, may, all depends on how Microsoft approaches its awful dashboard mess.

JUST LET ME CUSTOMISE ITS LAYOUT!

Yet another MS first party game lacking features at launch. Becoming quite common now. Not a good look if MS want that quality reputation.

Wouldn't touch it or any other Xbox. Sorry but this latest 'dashboard' update really has left a very salty taste in my mouth. I dread turning it on now even to look at it, trawl through all those ads if I need something. Even knowing they are all their just one button press down.

The sooner this goes through, the sooner Microsoft can work in there abysmal ad infested OS update on Xbox.

This article smacks the nail on the head, it’s EXACTLY how I feel. I hate it for all the endless mandatory ‘ad’s’ but like it’s speed and layout changes on that first screen with my desktop. Just as is said here I want to customise (remove) the ad clutter crap I’m not interested in.

@Lup Nope, you cannot remove ANY of it, only your groups you set up. Everything else nadda, and that’s the HUGE problem with it. It’s fast yes, I can see my desktop, well the top half anyway. But scroll down two clicks and it’s ad infested city and no way out.

@Fishticon If they had ads for every loading screen (elevator ride) in game people would lap it up and praise it!

It’s an ad infested dumpster fire.

I really hate it! Really hate it. I had 5 lines before now I have 20 90% of which are un-skippable un-removable ads..

I didn’t see an option for ‘I hate all the endless endless mandatory ads on it’

I had about 5 lines before on my Home Screen I customised, I now have 20, 90% of which are ads or suggestions (ads) that I cannot get rid off. Great work Microsoft…🤦‍♂️

It is just a God awful AD INFESTED mess! Hate it, completely hate it. And the fact I cannot change it in anyway it disgusting. I do NOT pay a premium price plus a subscription fee to ‘mandatory’ ads shoved down my throat on my console!

What an utterly awful dashboard! Forcing you to see recommendations, updates etc you have NO interest in and cannot remove! What ***** is that! It’s awful absolutely awful. And I can’t find anyway to change it.

Nope not really, I’d rather they fully utilised all the power and performance of the current Series X.

I’m desperately waiting for the new game. Got GOW4 on disk from the dog for Christmas lol, but it included all the previous games too! Thought it was a real bargain personally. And allowed me to have the games on my Xbox One S at the time, before Game Pass I think? It’s the game that got me into Xbox originally when the 360 was launched.

@Kaloudz Yeah but October! Were they thinking, how long should we delay? Hmm well the CMA think August, so we’ll give them till mid September? No best make it end of October to be sure… with an option for March 2025 should we need it.

@x3King84 EXACTLY! The crap I’ve read being posted on this! Quite ridiculous. The adults at MS, CMA meanwhile working together to get it through.

Called It! October though, that’s brave. I guess this is due to the fact the contract they have states ALL regulators must approve the deal for it to pass, well apart from America where it’s approved by default due to the FTC losing in court. The CMA expects to have this done in a couple of weeks or three. Not a few months!

On an other note, it’s not mentioned here yet but most now are fully expecting MS and Activision to announce a delay in the deal closing till most likely September 1st, as reported before they will allow time to have the deal approved by the CMA, a judge yesterday said they most likely won’t be able to close the deal in the UK today as it’s too soon.

@Fiendish-Beaver Give up, you don’t know what regulators are there for then. Of course they won’t state the word ‘monopoly’ but instead spell it our in a full explanation which they did.

Also:

“ Monopoly: the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.”

Read the second paragraph of the quote I posted as it seems to answer that directly?

You just believe what ever you like, it’s your right to do so and make your own opinions up. I am just not seeing any of it I’m afraid.

@Fiendish-Beaver “ Where we did have concerns was in cloud gaming - still a nascent market but one we expect to grow, because it offers many advantages for gamers. For one, it enables gamers to untie games from specific devices - that means more accessibility and lower cost. So cloud gaming deserved an in-depth assessment. This was a common concern because, like us, the CMA focused on this market.

We were worried that Microsoft would make Activision games exclusive to its own cloud gaming service. This would have restrained access to games and strengthened Window's position as an operating system.

Where we diverged with the CMA was on remedies. We accepted a 10-year free license to consumers to allow them to stream all Activision games for which they have a license via any cloud service. And why did we do this instead of blocking the merger? Well, to us, this solution fully addressed our concerns. And on top of that, it had significant procompetitive effects.”

http://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH_23_2923

— from the horses mouth and wasn’t hard to find.

And no you haven’t provided any evidence, just personal opinion and seeing things that don’t exist. Anything else I have to say I’ve already said multiple times now.

@Fiendish-Beaver TLDR, when you have actual evidence come back, until then it's a complete personal opinion or conspiracy theory no matter what you state. They blocked it for what they felt were valid reasons, not out of spite or to protect Sonys profits, and not because the FTC told them to.
Also the EU and the FTC both also highlighted cloud gaming as creating a monopoly from this deal, I've said that several times, otherwise regulators tend to follow the EU, UK and US regulator leads, because they are by far the biggest markets for Microsoft.

No updates yet today? Hmm. Wonder if it’ll be tomorrow before anything is announced, although didn’t someone on here state that Microsoft has a meeting with the CMA today? That could hold back any news till after.

No update today yet from Microsoft? All in suspense now lol.

Bit of a mouthful of a name, but this was inevitable.

What annoys me is that no doubt all the hardcore fans, or the sheep will blame Microsoft. Not Jim Ryan for losing them several hot games on their platform. I knew as I'm sure others did that this was the game Eyam was playing and the risk he was taking, others didn't though. But they know now.

@Kaloudz I have my fingers crossed the CMA will allow the merger without their complaint and as you say work on the concessions. And the CMA accept the concession, I think they will if they are working with MS on them. This is the best outcome for us in Blighty and for the case against the FTC.
Will be very interesting to see how tomorrow plays out. Especially now Sony have folded, and paid a price too seemingly.

On a side note I saw some of that case with Khan is it from the FTC, and one of the Senates pointed out how she had even let her own lawyer licence lapse! Khan seems to really not be fit for the job.

@Grumblevolcano Not sure about that after the news Sony has signed its deal. Personally I think they will close the deal, I’ve just seen others saying they may delay it. All eyes on tomorrow. Just hope we in the UK end up with the same perks from this merger, such as games on Game Pass, not sure about the cloud as I believe the concession put forward is for Microsoft to sell the cloud rights on Acti Bliz games in the UK?

Pfft like they had a choice, it was inevitable they would have to sign it, they obviously couldn’t though whilst fighting the merger. Don’t really care much though for Sony and crying Ryan, but they are paying for their delaying now. They should have thought of that.

@OM1993 All I see is the same as already reports, that they plan to close their investigation well before the August deadline. We shall see what happens tomorrow. It will put the UK market in an interesting position. But also I suspect nothing will change in relation to any games availability if the deal closes until the CMA make their verdict, if it’s only a couple of weeks away.

@Fiendish-Beaver Firstly as said that’s not how the CMA guidance reads, and the EU offered the idea for the concession to. Microsoft.
Secondly that is complete conspiracy theory, nothing more nothing less, no evidence, also any conflicts of interest would have been declared and all parties given the opportunity to object, and it’s also utterly ridiculous to suggest anyone cannot leave one job to go to another, and then cross paths again with a previous employer and be anything other then impartial. The CMA had valid concerns, were not offered any working remedies from Microsoft, so blocked the deal.

Do not be surprised if Microsoft extends its deal with Activision to beyond the 18th, some who are more grounded in this topic are claiming MS are showing no signs or intentions of steam rolling the deal through before the CMA approval, also could possibly have something to with the text on its agreement that all regulatory parties must approve it. But I would think they could work around that text. We shall see as lots of conflicting evidence around whether the deal will close or not on Tuesday. Tomorrow will be a very interesting day.

@Fiendish-Beaver Whilst I would naturally agree on who makes the concessions, this tweet from Microsoft’s President would imply differently hence my comment:

http://www.pcgamer.com/microsoft-president-clarifies-eu-cloud-agreement-popular-games-will-be-automatically-licensed-to-competitors-and-this-will-apply-globally/

This lead to my thought process on this as it isn’t specifically clear. I do remember reading even in comments on this site that the EU came up with the concession and Microsoft extended it to be global, which is what this report as many others seem to conclude.
Also if you look at the CMA guidance here: http://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1044636/CMA2_guidance.pdf

Page 90 point 12.14 ‘Notice Of Possible Remedies’, it states that the CMA will publish a notice of possible remedies which will act as a formal starting point of discussion of remedies. Thus implying again the regulator can suggest concessions to be looked at, that’s how I’m reading it anyway. Also it does highlight how there are several opportunities in the process to give remedies or discuss them before the final verdict is given, so MS did have the opportunity to do so including once the preliminary report had been concluded. It as we know the CMA rejected the remedies MS offered as not resolving the concerns they had.

I cannot concur your assumption of your last paragraph, that the CMA approached Microsoft, only a joint request from the CMA, Microsoft and Activision was sent to the courts to request the appeal to be halted. The rest of your comment in the last paragraph is pure conspiracy theory, I don’t know why you keep on following this thought process. You really seem to believe the CMA are out to block this merger no matter what. Like many on here seem to have this out going urge to believe in conspiracy’s as opposed to fact foe some very odd reason? That toxic gamers mentality coming to light.

@Moonglow Haha someone calls out your BS conspiracy theories and call them damage controlling. Grow up. And you can confront me directly if you have accusations.

@mousieone How do you know those meetings were for concessions? You just said yourself ‘closed doors’ as in details were not released to the public, it’s all hypothetical here say.

@mousieone Wong, it is only the deal in the UK, not the rest of the world, concessions for the UK market only. And the facts are clear, it was announced this week that MS and the CMA had agreed to halt the appeals process for now to look into concessions. Leaving them with 4 days to approve including a weekend. Why are you ignoring this? MS had a year and a half to come up with a concession to work with the CMA, why didn't they? All I read was that the EU came up with one, which was pretty generous of them, and that wouldn't work in the UK market with our mechanisms. I didn't hear much of MS working on concessions, maybe they did but I didn't read that.

@theduckofdeath Most likely, but I would much rather they follow this process as then it’s done and dusted approved and all legal, and us folk in the UK will get the same benefits, apart from what ever could concessions are made. It Acti Blizzard games in Game Pass! That’s the real goal we want.

They won’t wait 6 weeks, I expect it’ll be approved next week or the week after, I don’t expect it to be done this weekend as not everyone will want to work over the weekend. The CMA FTC and EU regulators do lease with each other, but their primary objectives are to protect their own markets and consumers, so the CMA won’t really take into account what the FTC is doing as they lost the first case. I hope. Fingers crossed.