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Microsoft has ‘let Blizzard be Blizzard’ following its acquisition, studio says (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They know exactly what they're doing. They're playing the software game. Right now they've turned their development studios into marketing divisions for game pass. They don't need to do anything special right now other than let their teams make games, put them on their subscription library and watch the money roll in.

Versus Sony, which not too long ago was rabidly against anyone having crossplay with their console and is individually publishing titles.

The thing is, for the most part it doesn't matter who's holding the strings so long as good games get made available for as many people as possible at a decent and not rising price point.

The whole $70-80 free rise is being done by companies that are struggling to keep their foothold with their current MTX-based models.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Did the employees get a 20% raise? No? Then get fucked with your price increase.

Patent gamers unite. We already have several lifetimes of old content to use, new stuff is not necessary