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Do the announced changes at Halo Studios (prev. 343 Industries) have you optimistic for the future of the franchise?

Yes 16 50.00%
 
No 12 37.50%
 
Still need convincing (sp... 4 12.50%
 
Total:32
Ryuu96 on 21 March 2023


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G2ThaUNiT on 21 March 2023

These fracture event cosmetics look like Crysis and Barbie had a baby



Barozi on 21 March 2023
gtotheunit91 said:

Game Pass is really on a roll with their day one releases lately.

Using TA:

167k players for Atomic Heart
108k for Hi-Fi Rush
101k for Wo Long
79k for Monster Hunter Rise

and of course the break out success of last year, High on Life with 261k players which only released in December so barely older than the games listed above.

Some other future candidates that can reach 100k+:

Ghostwire Tokyo
Minecraft Legends
Redfall 
Ark 2
Forza Motorsport
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Lies of P
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Starfield

and possibly more unnannounced ones.



Ryuu96 on 21 March 2023
Barozi said:
gtotheunit91 said:

Game Pass is really on a roll with their day one releases lately.

Using TA:

167k players for Atomic Heart
108k for Hi-Fi Rush
101k for Wo Long
79k for Monster Hunter Rise

and of course the break out success of last year, High on Life with 261k players which only released in December so barely older than the games listed above.

Some other future candidates that can reach 100k+:

Ghostwire Tokyo
Minecraft Legends
Redfall 
Ark 2
Forza Motorsport
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Lies of P
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Starfield

and possibly more unnannounced ones.

Party Animals + Cities Skylines II.

Quite a lot of heavy hitters for Game Pass in 2023.

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Ryuu96 on 21 March 2023

Another preview event? 🤔

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Machiavellian on 21 March 2023
EpicRandy said:
Ryuu96 said:

I think it doesn't matter if Sony signs it, these are basically Microsoft's proposals to the CMA and it's up to the CMA to accept. Sony doesn't have to sign anything and they'll still come out of this with these conditions due to the CMA enforcing them on their behalf.

I also agree, my confidence in the deal passing has increased, I think it's now more likely than not (again), Lol. There's a lot of momentum in Microsoft's favour recently and it's becoming very hard for CMA to justify a block, it even looks like CMA is more open to behavioural remedies than we originally thought.

So if I understood this right, Microsoft is proposing to pay for 3 people to monitor this deal, a Adjudicator, a Monitoring Trustee and a Objective Third Party Assessor to monitor the technical aspects on behalf of the CMA so CMA wouldn't have to do anything nor pay for anything, Lol. Whilst also giving the Adjudicator the power to literally block CoD from releasing if Microsoft breaches the parity terms.

Pretty damn thorough.

They also mention Digital Foundry once, I think they might be the "Objective Third Party Assessor" to monitor the technical aspects...I feel sorry for DF if that is the case, you know the fanboys will be out in force whenever DF says a 3rd party runs better on Xbox, Lmao. It'll be "OMG DF IS BIASED! THEY'RE FUNDED BY MICROSOFT!"

Microsoft really put down some of CMA's sillier arguments whilst at the same time offered great solutions and CMA spent the majority of the time listening to this and going through these solutions, makes it a bit harder to call now, sure they have an obligation to listen to the proposals but they don't have to listen for long/the majority of the time going through it in such detail.

Pretty sure MS have a lot to thanks the UK development scene for their recent view on the deal, while I'm sure there were more respondent than those exposed by the CMA if they had one that was unfavorable to the deal they would likely have divulgated also if only to contrast favorable views. I'm sure it gave CMA a little more openness to dialog with MS and accept behavioral remedies as well as giving Microsoft more credibility with their assertion of the market. 

For Digital foundry, if ever they were the one chosen I don't think there should be any issue. Like mentioned all this procedure would be confidential and DF would likely be constrained not to use any of their work on the process with their public channel. Essentially forcing them to do the work twice and so they would likely expand a second independent team (if they don't already have one) that operate solely in B2B and may not even operate under the DF name.

DF would absoluty love this.  Money in the bank for doing what they already do for 10 years.  Yeah, they woud sign up without hesitation.



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EspadaGrim on 22 March 2023
Ryuu96 said:

Fuck me, I try to update my list and yet another pops up.

People talk about monopolies but the Independent gaming scene is at it's strongest ever, if you are a talented developer with credits to your name then there isn't a better time to think about going your own way and starting your own studio.

What pleases me more is how strong the single player games market is right now even EA and Take-Two are investing more in single player games this gen than the last.