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Ryuu96 on 07 May 2024
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derpysquirtle64 said:
Ryuu96 said:

I don't think they care, they've given up trying to please that section of the community now, they're now all in on the money making, they don't care about upsetting Xbox online users or Xbox console users because they're a minority to their ultimate goals and they will likely succeed in becoming the biggest third party publisher in the industry but it's going to come at the cost of them being looked at like the next EA...But again, sadly, they won't care about their reputation as long as they are making money.

That’s true, maybe. But again, they might fail even at their ultimate goals. Because to become this huge publisher, you need to have the audience for your games. A lot of people in Xbox community are pissed off now. Selling games on PS5 and Switch might not solve the problem because you might be competing with Sony and Nintendo games there. Like, for example, HiFi Rush was released on PS5 at the same time as Rise of the Ronin did. What could have possibly gone wrong that we saw HFR discounted from 30 to 20 in just one month?

That's why they're focusing on the big blockbusters that go beyond the circles of online forum users, CoD been rubbish for years and CoD fans been bitching about it for the past 10 years but it still sells amazing every single year, put it this way, change Hi-Fi Rush to a COD spinoff and it would have destroyed Rise of Ronin, Lol

It feels like they're just going to dump the small creative projects and go all in on the massive blockbusters, guaranteed hits because the fanbase of these titles are way beyond online communities, like ResetEra and VGChartz despise COD, Fortnite, Roblox, etc. Call them every insult under the sun but they are massive titles...Feels like Microsoft will just focus on COD, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, anything that's a huge IP and guaranteed seller.

Like there's probably a very likely chance now that Obsidian and InXile are booted off their original IPs and put on Fallout spinoffs and fans of Fallout, fans of Elder Scrolls, fans of COD, they don't care about this multiplatform stuff and they largely don't care about some studio in Japan. It sucks because it's going to result in a bunch of smaller creative projects getting a bullet in exchange for working on massive IPs.