Jesus, Xbox is broke as shit. how the run a business with that lil bit of revenue?

That kind of revenue is nice but you seem to forget it also has a ton of studios and buildings, advertising for those games and so on that cost yearly a ton of money.

It’s great seeing the interviews Bethesda has put out with the original developers of Fallout, but man is it disappointing that the only way they’re actually celebrating is Fallout 76 and Fallout Shelter updates and sales. Along with a free time to try out Fallout 1st sub lol

Yeah but unless we know the actual costs of what you pointed out, then it’s kind of moot because it’s all just speculation. I personally assume profits for Game Pass are minimal right now but subscriptions are only going up. Microsoft is playing the long game. 

I mean, they purchased ActiBlizz with money that was literally just sitting there in the bank. 

Not sure why that actually mean anything since GP is not the sole source for any of those studios revenue.  We seem to forget that MS still sell at retail including on PC.

I got reminded by your review that I wanted to quote this post.

The code is region locked HOWEVER, you can simply redeem the code via VPN using a browser (running a VPN via console is a little harder):

https://account.microsoft.com/billing/redeem

Currently playing The Ascent and it's great. I'm definitely going to get the DLC before the game leaves Game Pass.

Only complaints I have right now:

Lip sync is quite off. Considering how good the graphics are in this game, this definitely stands out.

It's still a little buggy (and the launch was quite bad from what I remember). So far it has happened to me twice that a mission was bugged and I had to close and reload the game to progress.

The loading times are quite long. Initial and during area transitions. I like that they're trying to hide it though by using interiors of trains, elevators and cabs.

The map is quite hard to read. I have to bring it up constantly to see where I need to go to find chests etc.. Also who thought it would be a good idea to show yourself as a red dot on the mini map while displaying aware enemies also as red dots.

Fast travel could be improved as well. It's a shame there is no fast travel between regions, only within the same one.

Story isn't that engaging.

Backed up by facts though, I do agree, CMA looked more concerned about protecting Sony than protecting consumers, the CoD arguments are junk, and the focus should be on Azure's dominance, Brazil basically put down every "exclusivity" argument.

Xbox as a platform is seventh place in PC? Yikes. Does that mean Steam, EGS, GOG, Origin, Battle Net, Ubisoft Connect > Windows Store? I'm assuming those will be the ones above it.

But Sony. That's what you're doing right now. What.

Even when I'm gifting to someone?  Because I figured MS detects it based on the starting region account: they know I'm USA sending a gift and know you're Germany when I'd try to give it to you.  Maybe I'm just not following how that circumvents the rules.