| gtotheunit91 said: Well, apparently we're all either AI or paid off MS agents. |
I usually respect Mark Kern's (former Blizzard dev who was the vanilla World of Warcraft game director) opinions on the gaming industry and game design quite alot, but he is definitely off the mark on this one. He seems convinced that Xbox wants to pull a Netflix, consolidate most of the industry behind Gamepass and then suddenly jack up the prices. When he got ratio'd by Xbox fans calling out his opinion, then he started saying his critics were either paid by Xbox shill accounts, or a bot army employed to ratio him.
I respect Mark, but it's pretty clear that he has never worked with Xbox a day in his life. He seems to be completely out of the loop about how they operate in regards to indies. I posted many of the articles of indie devs praising Xbox as the most indie friendly of the 3 consoles and praising Gamepass for bringing their games increased revenue, after he claimed Gamepass was bad for indies, in an attempt to educate him, but I doubt he even read most of the replies since he seems convinced we're all just a bot brigade. It's a shame, I would actually love to see his upcoming indie mech suit MMO on Xbox, but that seems unlikely to happen since he has such a poor opinion of Xbox.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 03 July 2023
