robthehermit
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Post by robthehermit on Mar 15, 2023 13:09:46 GMT
They've signed more 10 year agreements this time with Ubitus and Boosteroid. I'll finally get to use the PC portion of my Ultimate sub.
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 15, 2023 15:02:08 GMT
It's not helping Sony's argument when everyone else is signing up to it. Just need to end now.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Mar 15, 2023 17:14:24 GMT
How can they sign people up to something they don't own yet?
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 15, 2023 17:33:56 GMT
It's a commitment which kills Sony's and the regulators claims/concerns that MS will just pull everything and make it exclusive as soon as the deal is done.
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Post by aubergine on Mar 15, 2023 20:24:15 GMT
Oh yes, the well-known Ubitus and Boosteroid. What are they doing, releasing Call of Duty on haemorrhoid suppositories?
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Post by robthehermit on Mar 15, 2023 20:32:09 GMT
Fairly well known apparently. According to the bumf Boosteroid is the largest independent streaming platform in the world with over 4 million users, and Ubitus were used to stream Control to Nintendo Switch.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Mar 16, 2023 7:38:26 GMT
I've never heard of them. I thought the only ones were Xbox, Nvidias thing and Google's effort that they just flushed undercooked.
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 16, 2023 19:03:14 GMT
Sony trying to claim that games on GamePass are basically exclusive now?
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Post by technoish on Mar 16, 2023 19:13:19 GMT
Sony are just talking bollocks with this stuff.
But if the deal falls through Acti-Blizz will have a lot of material to make Sony pay through the nose for any kind of content exclusivity deals going forward.
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Post by Ulythium on Mar 16, 2023 21:08:52 GMT
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Mar 16, 2023 21:33:09 GMT
Genuine lol'd at goateed bumblefuck.
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 16, 2023 21:36:03 GMT
After the last one i doubt IOI will want another company owning them any time soon.
Plus they seem to be doing really well by themselves.
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Post by aubergine on Mar 17, 2023 0:03:12 GMT
Will be interesting to see how long it takes for Microsoft to be seen as the new EA, although I wonder how many people flag-waving for Microsoft are old enough to remember when EA were buying up every beloved studio and destroying it.
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 17, 2023 6:22:47 GMT
Actually surprised the EA graveyard meme hasn't been used in a while. Did read more key members/founders of Criterion Games recently left.
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Post by aubergine on Mar 17, 2023 13:22:12 GMT
They still had some? I thought they all left and made The Room for the rest of their lives. Or something.
EA haven’t bought anything for ages so far as I know, and I don’t think they make anything at all that’s hugely successful any more. Dragon Age 3 was mine years ago. It seems like every battlefield game has been a shitshow for that long. There’s probably one sports game that props up the whole company I expect. I honestly don’t remember what else they make.
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Post by gamecat on Mar 17, 2023 13:32:37 GMT
Sims DLC and selling FIFA/Madden/NHL ultimate team crap are where EA make their money now I think. That Dead Space remake seemed to do well enough though. Edit, forgot Apex, that makes a fair bit.
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Post by Phattso on Mar 17, 2023 13:40:41 GMT
Plus they bought Codemasters - so they have every mainstream racing game that isn't Forza or Gran Turismo.
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Post by Dougs on Mar 17, 2023 13:46:00 GMT
Jedi Fallen Order did quite well I think.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 17, 2023 15:14:23 GMT
Jedi Fallen Order did quite well I think. It did. In spite of the lead character's movement resembling a fucking chimpanzee. |
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Post by Phattso on Mar 17, 2023 17:27:57 GMT
Jedi Fallen Order did quite well I think. It did. In spite of the lead character's movement resembling fucking a chimpanzee. FTFY. Preach it. |
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Post by Frog on Mar 17, 2023 18:40:28 GMT
Phattso revealing his knowledge of chimpanzee fucking to the group here.
Now is the the time to support him guys, no judging.
Chimp fucker.
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Post by LegendaryApe on Mar 18, 2023 20:11:07 GMT
What's wrong with primates?? WELL
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Post by deebs on Mar 19, 2023 4:21:26 GMT
So are Blizzard the good or the bad guys after that carry on that I can't articulate went down? You know something about wow hosting or some shit. Goldfish brain <.
Can I buy D4 or what?
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Post by deebs on Mar 19, 2023 4:23:44 GMT
Absconding post 666 before the devil gets me
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Post by aubergine on Mar 19, 2023 6:02:39 GMT
So are Blizzard the good or the bad guys after that carry on that I can't articulate went down? You know something about wow hosting or some shit. Goldfish brain <. Can I buy D4 or what? I just remember when Diablo 3 was a total shitshow because of Activision’s great ideas about always-online, now potentially teaming up with the other great Always-Online proponents of the era. |
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Post by Frog on Mar 19, 2023 7:24:39 GMT
Always online was far from diablo 3's biggest issue. Lack of content however..
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Post by dfunked on Mar 19, 2023 9:26:36 GMT
Yeah, there was fuck all to do at launch, other than playing the story again and hoping you got enough half decent loot to sell, so you could buy something actually useful in the auction house.
Always online was absolutely fine after the launch woes were out of the way imo. It was the shit loot with no endgame that people hated.
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Post by deebs on Mar 19, 2023 12:50:00 GMT
It wasn't the always online stuff that bothered me all that much, it was the item market and the complete lack of legendary drops.
What dfunked said.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 19, 2023 14:24:02 GMT
Always online was far from diablo 3's biggest issue. Lack of content however.. Ahhh the old Auction House. I'm glad that greater community heavily pushed back on that, hard. |
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Post by baihu1983 on Mar 21, 2023 13:08:34 GMT
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