Darn. I have Ultimate, and I love it. But MSFT were clearly leaving money on the table to drive adoption, and it's clearly worked. Still a great deal overall, but marginally less so now.
Even then, it's a fantastic service - I don't have to buy individual games anymore.
They really do. They've taken a whack for some of the recent games they've put out, and the pressure is on for them to deliver with the likes of Starfield and a continuation of Halo Infinite.
But overall, the service is fantasic. I get Forza, Halo, Madden, FIFA, a ton of indies, old Xbox and Xbox360 titles, and more all with a kickass multiplayer service across all games for $11-17 bucks a month. In the advent of $70 games, that's a great deal.
Long may it continue. I really like MSFT's strategy in the gaming sector, and while I hope the Activision acquisition goes through, I have a feeling MSFT will be quite well off if the deal is off.
Not hateful at all. You have an opinion and it's backed up by an easily provable logic.
Activision is indeed toxic, but they do have a host of great games both under their Activision banner and their Blizzard banner. I can see why a lot of people are against it, and I don't blame them to be honest. I just hope the acquisition happens because it means more games for Game Pass subscribers and perhaps with the additional capital that being bought by a multi-trillion dollar brings. Personally, I'd love another Starcraft (or an expansion/update of SC Remastered).
Ideally, instead of this sort of $$ done on an M&A deal I'd like to see MSFT buy up 50 smaller studios and give them free reign to build whatever they want so long as it's exclusive to Xbox and PC, as opposed to buying 1 publisher for dumb money and milking its main cash cow.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 20.7 ms ] threadEven then, it's a fantastic service - I don't have to buy individual games anymore.
But overall, the service is fantasic. I get Forza, Halo, Madden, FIFA, a ton of indies, old Xbox and Xbox360 titles, and more all with a kickass multiplayer service across all games for $11-17 bucks a month. In the advent of $70 games, that's a great deal.
Long may it continue. I really like MSFT's strategy in the gaming sector, and while I hope the Activision acquisition goes through, I have a feeling MSFT will be quite well off if the deal is off.
Activision is indeed toxic, but they do have a host of great games both under their Activision banner and their Blizzard banner. I can see why a lot of people are against it, and I don't blame them to be honest. I just hope the acquisition happens because it means more games for Game Pass subscribers and perhaps with the additional capital that being bought by a multi-trillion dollar brings. Personally, I'd love another Starcraft (or an expansion/update of SC Remastered).
Ideally, instead of this sort of $$ done on an M&A deal I'd like to see MSFT buy up 50 smaller studios and give them free reign to build whatever they want so long as it's exclusive to Xbox and PC, as opposed to buying 1 publisher for dumb money and milking its main cash cow.