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[–] 64bithero@lemmy.world 5 points 12 minutes ago

No no everyone things are way better now. They hit caps lock before they type Xbox now. So the world is fixed.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Games are not losing attention. AAA publishers have been copy/pasting the same game for 2 decades.

Their greed made them risk averse which is just another way to say boring in an artistic medium.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 10 points 53 minutes ago (2 children)
[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 points 27 minutes ago

Pragmata isn't the game competing with crypto, gambling, porn, and TikTok. That would be the likes of EA's Not-FIFA, Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Destiny, NBA 2K; the kind of game that sells to people who don't play many different video games.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 5 points 38 minutes ago

But have you heard of live service games? Gamers will continually pay for a 10-hour game with mechanics designed to trap lonely people with compulsive addiction issues for 5000 per year. Imagine all the billions that we will make from those ~~suckers~~ gamers.

/s

[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 1 points 28 seconds ago

That is Microsoft's ultimate problem, aside from how they started their current console cycle. They are too afraid to do something different, closing down studios that did something different and didn't meet unhinged sales metrics. I think that their studios need to be allowed to cook and work on their specialty, in order to bring something awesome to the table.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 minutes ago

I don't want to play games that compare and compete to gambling, crypto and porn. Sounds like bad games to me. Good games don't care about gambling and crypto.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 4 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago) (3 children)

Incoming xboxXXX online powered by microshitcoin?

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 4 points 26 minutes ago

Sex with Stalin on Xbox when?

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Gambling on porn with crypto NFTs. This is the future you micro soft dummies.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 2 points 10 minutes ago

It's the only strategy MSFT hasn't tried yet.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 6 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

What an odd statement. Xbox is in direct competition with porn and crypto? Do they know any of those things? Do they think people are just like "hm, 60 dollars. I could game, buy porn, or crypto. Hmmmmmm"

Anything to avoid looking inward. Their IPs have empty corporate souls because they're made by souless corporate entities. Halo, Gears, Starfield, all shallow empty stories, and gamers are tired of it.

Of course they don't have souls so they assume gamers don't either. Couldn't be that were gaming to enjoy a story or feel something deeply, no we're literally debating on gambling or video games. Jesus Christ so out of touch.