Papa Phil: "Xbox has to mean quality games"

[DonFerrari]

eva01beserk said:

LudicrousSpeed said:

What does "focus on the SP" mean? This interview was from last year. They'd just released State of Decay 2, which has a lot of focus on the SP. It even just received a big single player update. After that they released Horizon 4, one of the best racers ever, and it has a ton of focus on SP. You can do everything in SP. It even has the Drivatars for you if you want to play solo. They also had Ashen and Below, two single player titles. This year they had Crackdown, again a big SP emphasis, and they have Gears coming, again a big SP emphasis. I know you don't play Xbox games, but ignorance is no excuse to continue to be so incorrect.

Also a vast majority of this content is not monetized. Another thing you'd know if you paid attention or played the games. Sure, they have add-ons for some of the games, but GAAS doesn't have to revolve around monetization. It's about keeping a players interest and continually adding value to a game. State of Decay has had like 8 or 9 big free updates adding more content and more things to do, all free. Crackdown got a couple big updates adding a lot of cool stuff to do in the campaign mode, free of charge. Horizon 4 has paid DLC, but it also has loads of revolving content that makes it fresh, all free.

I think you mistaken a game having a single player component with a game being single player focus. Its like single player game like uncharted, it has multiplayer, but we all know thats just a little side thing and not the focus of the game. Some reviewers even skimp over that part because they know whoever is buying that game is not doing it because of the multiplayer. Thats like saying destiny/the division/anthem are single player game. 

An interview from MS, the type of games they release and they publicly confessing their games have been suffering from quality stand point isn't enough to convince them. They defend MS more than the executives of the company.