That's Microsofts issue for laying off half the studio every 18 months lol.

Return for Monkey Island released on GP yesterday, anybody playing?

Would have to be after the current market deal is up, MS said recently that Sony includes language in their marketing deals preventing games from launching into GamePass for “years” after launch. 

Yeah I have the flu so needed something relaxing to play. I love the franchise so was going to play it for sure. 

Anyway I love what they did with the game , it plays fluent, it is very user friendly (has a hint book that exactly will tell you what you have to do if you don't know what to do), it is even a bit emotional to return to Monkey island and see what happened after 30 years on the island. 

I'm on the last boss fight in Tunic and it's a pain. I wish the game would slow down time when switching items. Other than that, I've really enjoyed the game.

So they removed one of the maps in halo infinite because of a bug....Still havn't played one of the new maps + I am still in season 2.001

I wouldn't say CoD engine is perfect for what Halo does, for starters, missing the Forge capabilities is a really big deal and even besides that, admittedly the last CoD I played was Black Ops II, but I'm confident that CoD does not have anywhere near the same physics as Halo does, CoD is a more realistic and stiffer shooter in not only the player movement but vehicular movement too, Halo's physics are way more out there than CoDs in every aspect.

They're exaggerated but Mint Blitz videos do a good job at showing how crazy Halo's physics are and that is even with Halo Infinite's physics being downgraded which many weren't happy with. It'd require a significant amount of time and energy to repurpose the CoD engine for Halo. No engine is perfect either, as I mentioned, Warzone had significant issues all throughout its life, a very buggy and broken game from what I read across the years.

Also, CoD used different engines until recently.

There also isn't no way that Microsoft (or Activision, especially since they'll work similar to Zenimax where they're separate from XGS) is going to move manpower from CoD to Halo either. If Microsoft was reluctant to put extra manpower on Halo even when Halo was all they had, they sure as hell won't take it from CoD which destroys Halo in sales and players, Lol.

CoD still needs thousands of developers even on a 2-year schedule. And apparently '2023' is a significant campaign expansion and multiplayer expansion for MW2 so they'll be busy with that too, I think the 2-year release schedule will be filled in by a major expansion between the years.

They need to expand 343's team, not take away from other teams, Certain Affinity and SkyBox Labs have the expertise for Slipspace but they need to be brought onboard on a permanent basis Imo as a 343-support studio, they should have their own Slipspace engine leads, they should be acquired and expanded but unfortunately they only work on two (very large parts) of Halo (Battle Royale and Forge) which at this point are almost becoming games in their own right.

If 343 has a manpower issue which all signs point towards, they should open a second 343 studio elsewhere, in an area of fresh talent pool, it doesn't have to be a full-blown AAA studio working on their own projects but just a satellite studio with extra support for 343.

Huge post and it looks like he brought receipts on a brief skim through, this will be interesting reading.

Hats off to him not taking the buyout.

I'm only part way through but damn ID Software, specifically Marty Stratton, are not looking good in this. Mick is bringing all the receipts; it has definitely had a lawyer look over it.

Smfh.

I feel almost like Xbox should get involved and do something for Mick, I swear if Bethesda sues him for this or something which isn't outside the realm of possibilities from the same company who sued Mojang for using "Scrolls"