...to avoid getting banned for inactivity, I may have to resort to comments that are of a lower overall quality and or beneath my moral standards.
Ryuu96 said:
They claim to be "Austin's largest independent game developer" so I wonder what the exact number is but I also don't know of the top of my head what independent developers are left in Austin, Lol. Think they opened the Canada studio about 3 years ago, Canada is choke full of developers so it should be easy to staff up, especially when they're winning awards like these. |
I'm starting to wonder if we're going to see some CoD studios be switched to Halo once the deal finalizes lol.
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twintail said:
According to the NPD (top 10 only) , CoD ranked the following from 2017 - 2022:
Your claim that CoD isn't as important as it used to be is highly questionable. According to NPD data, CoD isn't just the best consistently selling FPS on the market (especially when few even make the top 10 to begin with), it's also the best consistently selling game period. Also, the issue for the CMA isn't really about console dominance as it stands now. The concern is that competition is immediately stifled if MS owns production to a game with the importance that CoD has. The other concerns for the CMA, which are actually more important than console sales, is in relation to subscription and cloud gaming models. As the CMA believes that these are avenues for new competition to enter the gaming industry, the concern is that MS owning CoD will strengthen their subscription and cloud models to such a degree, that any new competitor into the gaming industry are too disadvantaged to be able to viably compete. |
Just because it's still number one doesn't change what I said/meant. It just isn't as important anymore as it was at MW2 and the years after time. And if this CMA would be so concerned about all this stuff they should have asked Sony to calm down the last years where they dominated already to the extreme especially in Europe and they still could do whatever they wanted to get even bigger advantages. And the CoD franchise is ironically a part of that where Sony ensured that "real" CoD fans needed a PS with the exclusivity deals. Did CMA tell Sony that this isn't ok when Xbox was already on the ground? Nahh...
Ryuu96 said:
Lol. Microsoft needs to just stop acquiring publishers and acquire some supporting studios after Activision-Blizzard, like you said, Certain Affinity and Skybox would do fine. Infinity Ward has 4 studios, Sledgehammer has 4 studios, Treyarch and Raven have one studio but hundreds of employees, Bungie has 1,300 employees. Dice has two studios. Imagine Certain Affinity acquired by Activision before the deal closes and Activision cancels all their projects and moves them over to CoD. |
Oh God don't even joke like that 
What's crazy is that other XGS are opening up support studios or additional studios. inXile has 2 offices now, Undead Labs opened up its own support studio. So what gives 343?!? Maybe it is Frankie that you were mentioning just is mishandling management severely. The last thing 343 should be talking about is having to reallocate resources. Words like that should never be uttered by a flagship studio for a flagship IP. I think we've mentioned this before, but it just seems like Halo is no longer viewed as highly by Microsoft anymore. Despite Infinite still being on the Xbox Series packaging!
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halo infinite release has been a disaster and such a disappointment for my son. I was looking forward to playing split screen co op with him but now that it's canceled I will probably just delete the game
Ryuu96 said:
Oops, I meant to frame it more as one or the other, so if you pick exclusives you consider exclusivity more important than the game releasing day one into Game Pass, essentially it's a choice of one or the other, either exclusives or day one game pass, can't have both. For example do you consider CoD going exclusive more important to you than it remaining multiplatform but launching day one into Game Pass. |
Gotcha. Well, I would pick day 1 releases for now. In a year or 2 once their 1st party starts hitting on all cylinders, then I would switch to exclusives.
I find it kind of amusing how many content creators and redditors on Halo's subreddit are claiming to uninstall Halo Infinite and to switch to Destiny 2 as if it's in any way, shape, or form close to the same kind of game lol.
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| gtotheunit91 said: I find it kind of amusing how many content creators and redditors on Halo's subreddit are claiming to uninstall Halo Infinite and to switch to Destiny 2 as if it's in any way, shape, or form close to the same kind of game lol. |
I'm not sure why people have to announce they are switching games. Actions speak louder than words. If anything, they should play Splitgate.
smroadkill15 said:
I'm not sure why people have to announce they are switching games. Actions speak louder than words. If anything, they should play Splitgate. |
It's funny you mention Splitgate actually lol
Important announcement from 1047 Games about the future of Splitgate: pic.twitter.com/5E0YG1DWQm
— Splitgate (@Splitgate) September 2, 2022
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Ryuu96 said:
If anyone is leaving Halo Infinite's PVP specifically for Destiny's PVP then they're going to be massively disappointed |
In more ways than one and just from a content perspective Destiny's PVP is a barren wasteland compared to Halo Infinite's PVP lol
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