Microsoft might have purchased someone, maybe

I mean, it is the thread for it.

For sure, and I don't mind it, hence the participation, but there have been multiple post about how long/boring it is, and the language used (*finally* moving on), etc. But it seems that, for the most part, it's only that way because of non-essential active participation.

Kotick is clearly a shrewd businessman but also seemingly a fairly garbage human. The fewer people he's responsible for, the better.

Heretic and Hexen remasters when?

They have one?

Two cunts in the same room.

Yeah you would say that's the sort of game that would have to stay multiplatform if they want it to be a success.

Everything that wasn't specifically excluded through the Competition remedies will 100% be exclusive faster than you can say "wear age appropriate clothes, you fucking clown".

I just hope they drop the full CoD back catalogue on GamePass at the earliest possible opportunity. I fancy a whole series campaign play through.

Aren't Harmonix basically dead now and just another part of the Fortnite team?

Well they are also getting rid of about 900 jobs.

They can revive Guitar Hero all they want, but, I'm sorry, I won't be buying any more plastic instruments for it, no matter how fun it is - I gave away my Rock Band kit and I'm still stuck with the Guitar Hero band kit and a couple of guitars, my missus should divorce me!

It's that but also the big collabs they do with movies and singers. It isn't cheap. I don't think player counts are what they used to be in the Pandemic. EVERYONE is feeling that now.

The consensus from podcasts I listen to (Jeff Gerstmann and Nextlander) was that Epic are making more from creator content than the base Battle Royale game, and that has slimmer margins because they need to pay the creators their cut. That’s how they justified the cuts anyway.

Fall Guys went f2p, had its progression system butchered with the usual battle pass stuff and in the recent round of cuts, Mediatonic was hit pretty hard. One staff member rearranged the company letters in office to spell out Decimation instead.

But this happened after they implemented a creative mode/level builder within the game, and said all future levels would be made within that builder. Which seems like a fine idea, but call me cynical, because I suspect once work on the level builder was done, they figured they didn't need most of the staff since content can now just either be made by users, a smaller crew, or even outsourced entirely. I've also read the maps in the level builder are generally of lower quality, but I've not played much Fall Guys since the shift anyway. 

I think Epic realise that having users churn out content is one of the most sustainable business models, since it requires much less from their end yet they can keep up with every current trend to keep players engaged. It's worked for Roblox, even if they're shady and exploit children, and I think Epic wants a piece of the pie.

With Rocket League, again, support had dried up for some time, and now they're removing item trading between players to force them to use the in game shop instead with their extortionate prices. This doesn't affect me as much, but it's still just cuntish behaviour.