I hate to say it, but at this rate for Microsoft to become even half the developer of like their competiton, they will have to look at their gaming division like exclusives are their bread and butter for survival. Creativity must be more important than what one can buy. Its like the rich kid who pays someone to do their homework instead of studying for themselves.  I hope E3 finds some developers to make them some games at E3. Hopeffully they revitalize Crackdown as well because making a breakable engine for evertyhing means nothing if the game isnt good.

The problem is, there was a shift in the vision of the department.

The previous execs thought that game as a service would be the future. Episodic/MMO games were the hottest things in 2012/14 and single player games were being touted as a dying breed.

I believe they're still trying to find a direction and identity like they had in X360 days. 

@Permalite there was a huge 9GB update for HW2 on xbox today, it think that has something to do with some people experiencing matchmaking issues. I played 3v3 Blitz for an hour or so and matchmaking was mostly quick, like 10 seconds but couple of times it took a minute or two. Which is slower than usual. Players are still there I'm sure.

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Doubt it. A friend of mine played through it about 2 weeks ago and he said it was quite buggy in some areas and the loading times are still horrible.
He still liked it though.

Did that new fast movement corebot arrive yet? I was waiting for that before I played so I could zoom around :P

I played it recently and the loading times are pretty big in some areas but i didn't encounter any major bugs.

I didn't think so as I haven't heard anything about it but they said early 2017 for it and I see early 2017 as been no later than Jan/Feb or they would of used Q1 or Q2 instead of early 2017, Hopefully it is arriving soon though.

So Minecraft fucked me today.

I wanted to get a few of the new achievements and loaded an older tutorial world, where I already built a Nether Portal and an End Portal. I loaded it in Survival mode on peaceful difficulty since I just wanted to check my chests if I already got some of the stuff I need for reanimating the Ender Dragon. Saved the game, backed out and loaded it again, this time on easy. Suddenly a message appears that I allegedly saved the game in creative mode and that I cannot earn any achievements in that map from now on.
I have never ever used the creative mode. Not in the 360 version and not here either.

Now I'm basically fucked and don't feel like spending hours to create both portals again. Especially since the old tutorial world is gone.
Basically I can only hope to find someone who is willing to invite me to their world and let me do the stuff there.

Voodoo Vince gets released on steam, but not halo wars 2, fh3, or gears 4. They should be putting every game on there.