Fable Legends was cancelled and the developer (Lionhead) dissolved. A sad episode for sure thought not without reasons. It's also worth mentionning it was prior to Gamepass and current Xbox strategy were put in place.

He's talking about Fable Legends. There were a few others also like Phantom Dust and Project Spark. I don't consider MS the issue with Scalebound. There was a lot more going on with that. The only other game I can think of is the Obsidian one that MS cancelled early but that wasn't even publicly announced. I'm not sure what the other 5 games are. It's worth noting that Xbox now is not the same Xbox as last gen. It's ran very differently and basically follow a whole new philosophy with game development. 

It's kind of amazing how much faith some of you have in Amazon and Google. Neither company has proven themselves to be successful in game development, let alone reached the success of MS when it comes to making games. Even though MS has definitely fumbled at times, at least MS has stuck it out and release good to great games consistently, while also bringing certain innovations to gaming.

Valve can't afford ABK so I'm not sure why this was even brought up lol.

Not yet anyway. Just wait a little longer.

It's the year 2022 and the time of corporate rule(s). Scrutiny is only really a concern for the people these days. Nike's and iPhones still aren't made in America.

Hulk is just fighting back. Smashing half of downtown in the process is just part of the process. Deal with it..

The company who is trying to dump a mountain of money (no one else can dish out this amount) to win the industry? 

The same company who has released next to 0 exclusives compared to its competition? So basically, paying to beat the competition because they themselves lack the creativity in developing new games? 

Also the same company who is bottlenecking this gen with their Series S console? Doing this just so they can sell a tier of console at 300USD and win more market share? 

That sounds great for gamers going forward. 

Series S isn’t bottlenecking anything. It still has better specs than most PC’s, which devs also have to take into account when making games. Not to mention everything is still cross gen.

Things could change in the 2nd half of the gen though since the Series S is supposed to run games for the rest of this decade.

I'm starting to swing to against again after this news, following TV streaming :/
https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-may-be-introducing-cheaper-ad-supported-xbox-game-pass-tiers

The hypothetical family plan looks to be offering the full benefits of the current Xbox Game Pass service for five users across consoles and PC for €22 a month, whilst the €3 plan would essentially give a single individual an Xbox Live Gold-like plan that delays access to Microsoft's first-party games for six months after release and would run adverts before you play a game from the XGP library.

I have no doubt this is just to soften up the incoming price hike and loophole closures for game pass. I also have no doubt it won't stay at just a few adverts before the game starts (so much for fast loading advantage of SSD lol). A couple additions to the SDK and publishers can insert their own ads on a timer, play when you access the map or inventory. Or like on TV, on the side or bottom during a cut scene.

It's a slippery slope we all know too well. When I was young, we only had ads before and after programs on tv, not during. 3 hour movie, no ads in the movie. Nowadays it's 8 minutes between ads... So we started recording everything, never watch live, always ffwd.

Then streaming came along, yay no more ads. Well they're in TV streaming now to for a lower price. The kicker, Netflix add tier (SD 1 tv) is the same price as Netflix was at the start, while the HD tier (2 tvs) is now well over double the price of what it was at the start and 4K is even more.

You tube has become unwatchable. It started with a single add, click off after 15 seconds before a clip. Now it's multiple unskippable ads before and after every x minutes. I can't watch concert videos on you tube anymore, effing ads. But for CAD 12 a month you can get rid of the ads...

Thus not happy MS is now considering pushing more ads into gaming (Series X already has enough of em on the dashboard) It never stops at just a couple. And with Acti-Blizz King acquired, more ammunition to push ads into gaming.

GamePass increasing in price and the multi year sub loopholes being closed are both things everyone should have expected to be coming. All of these streaming service start out cheap and with deep deals to get people subscribed and then they go up in price. An ad supported tier is also something multiple streaming services offer. The only question is whether they make the service worth the cost.