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jason1637 on 26 January 2023
Ryuu96 said:

Wonder what else they might be thinking of shadow dropping if this proves to be a big success (which it seems to be so far).

I'm thinking Project Mara would be a perfect shadow drop, in a Developer Direct which features Hellblade II, at the end of the segment they could announce a surprise release for Project Mara. It'll also be nice as they both share similar themes and feature the same lead actress and Tbh...Project Mara won't get much marketing either way.

Like, how much can you really market it? It's a psychological horror set entirely in a single house, I think it's also better to keep the horror aspects unknown to the viewers for the most part and there's really not much to market in terms of content.

I feel like MS kinda had to shadow drop this game. High on Life has been their biggest game since Halo and Forza in 2021 and that is not even first party. Their release schedule was getting dangerously close into Xbox One territory bad.



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jason1637 on 26 January 2023

Here me out. Surprise drop Starfield.



G2ThaUNiT on 26 January 2023
jason1637 said:

Here me out. Surprise drop Starfield.

Yo man, don't do this to me

Fr though, highly unlikely. Starfield will be the game with the stupid expensive marketing push. Bethesda Game Studios is now a system-seller studio, and will have to be treated as such. 



Ryuu96 on 26 January 2023
Ryuu96 said:

Lina Khan’s FTC Sued Microsoft Over Activision Deal to Head Off EU Settlement - Bloomberg

So it's basically as some of us were saying.

During a call between them both, the EC indicated to the FTC that they intended to begin talks with Microsoft about remedies, sounding like the EC was going to approve the deal with remedies. This sent the FTC into action and caused them to rush a block against Microsoft to discourage the EC from accepting a settlement with Microsoft.

So as we thought, the FTC is entirely banking on the EC or CMA blocking the deal.

Wonder if it may backfire though, in an effort to discourage EC from talking remedies with Microsoft, they rushed a block and looked incredibly sloppy, everyone is saying how bad their case is and the EC has to be taking notice of this. If FTC wanted to discourage others to block, they should have at least had a halfway competent block reason.

Really hope it does anyway, if I'm a regulator and I'm making a decision based on my own research into my market to approve something, it's incredibly arrogant for the FTC to throw their weight around like this and try to pressure me into going in a different direction than one I've made with my own research just because FTC says I should with no facts of their own, I'd tell them to bugger off, I'm not following them just because they're FTC.

Update with Idas Thoughts on the Matter.

Little funny that for all the accusations against other countries of being corrupt, it turns out that the FTC is actually closer to that than them, now I'm not saying that this is corruption but it's very unprofessional and arrogant of them, attempting to coerce and pressure other regulators into going against their own decisions just because FTC says so, it's an overreach of their perceived power.

Makes EC publicly rebutting FTC's comments about "Microsoft lying to EC" even more interesting now...Makes you wonder, who leaked this to Bloomberg? It definitely wasn't FTC...So it was either Microsoft or EC...If it was EC then that isn't good news for FTC...If it's EC then it's like a warning to FTC that EC isn't going along with their shit.

Not sure CMA/EC will be thrilled about someone attempting to pressure them in a certain direction, this could be a major backfire on FTC...I'm fairly sure that Europe won't have America telling them what to do but CMA is another matter still, do they side with EU or America, UK is America's little lapdog after all...Though I wonder if America blocking the book merger that UK approved will be on their mind.



Ryuu96 on 26 January 2023

I know it won't happen but when Oblivion was delayed from November, Bethesda didn't announce the new release date until March 2nd...18 days before its new release date, Lol.

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jason1637 on 26 January 2023
Ryuu96 said:

I know it won't happen but when Oblivion was delayed from November, Bethesda didn't announce the new release date until March 2nd...18 days before its new release date, Lol.

I think this could happen but it would probably have to be after Redfall. Like atleats a month after to give that game some breathing space.



Ryuu96 on 26 January 2023

More Bethesda titles for Prime Gaming.



DroidKnight on 26 January 2023



...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.

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shikamaru317 on 26 January 2023
jason1637 said:
Ryuu96 said:

I know it won't happen but when Oblivion was delayed from November, Bethesda didn't announce the new release date until March 2nd...18 days before its new release date, Lol.

I think this could happen but it would probably have to be after Redfall. Like atleats a month after to give that game some breathing space.

A surprise drop in June, which is the month some of the leakers said they are currently aiming for internally, would be pretty cool. Maybe drop the release date trailer on the E3 show which will likely be the 2nd week of June, and have Starfield release like 2 weeks later the final week of June. It could happen for sure, but at the same time they will piss alot of people off if Starfield isn't dated at the Starfield Developer_Direct which is probably like March. Maybe if they reconfirm Q2 2022 on the Developer_Direct, but fall short of posting an actual release date, they could then drop the date at E3 and then release the game a week or two later. The only issue would be preventing the leakers like Jez and Grubb from leaking the surprise.