NeoGAF & ResetERA - The Hilarious N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ Splintering "Gaming" Forum Circus

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It's not even released, so either the reporter had beta access and the culprits are easily traceable (other reporters or developers, or she's pulling it out of her ass like the QuiVR """rape""" victim.
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It was inevitable. After that girl got positive attention for saying she was raped in GTA, it was only a matter of time.
 
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Former Adam Ruins Everything host Adam Conover (who I've never heard of before, but apparently he's got some cred in games j**rnalist circles) puts out a Twitter video and small thread concerning Microsoft's ambitions in the games industry following the Activision Blizzard buyout. He says what anyone paying attention figured out from the Bethesda buyout, if not when Microsoft started pushing Gamepass in the first place.

That the service - for which we have at least one outright conformation is not profitable - is probably a massive money sink hole that is being subsidized solely by Microsoft's monopolistic business in the way of Windows OS and IT pipelines/infrastructure; and that said losses cannot be sustained by the likes of Sony or Nintendo. By offering such a deal that is too good to be true, Microsoft is aiming to undercut the games market in its entirety and price out competitors, while shifting the way in which people consume games into a streaming-subscription regime.

In other words, do exactly what Microsoft did with Windows in the 90s, and what they've been doing with Office 365 in the 2010s. When they've got their new vertical, the honeymoon period will end and they'll jack up the prices, all while fostering an environment where games are worse than they are now.





Much of Reeee balks at the notion and accuses Conover of fearmongering and "jumping to conclusions", when Phil "Blanket Ban" Spencer and Nadella have all but said it on numerous occasions. "Going after 3 billion gamers" this, "Keep out tech giants from harming the game industry" that - and seriously, Spencer said that shit after the Activision announcement. People should also remember that is was only last year that Microsoft tried doubling the price of Xbox Live Gold overnight, and backtracked after a wave of internet rage. That is not the kind of thing a subsidiary making a profit would try and do.

 
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Was going to just post this one, but there's something even more insane within that thread (which is about a woman being "virtually gang raped" aka people's avatars blocked her path and supposedly said rude things) than the stupid bans, people want criminalization of it:
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some of them have literally lost the fucking plot
 
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RudeRoasts said:
Former Adam Ruins Everything host Adam Conover (who I've never heard of before, but apparently he's got some cred in games j**rnalist circles) puts out a Twitter video and small thread concerning Microsoft's ambitions in the games industry following the Activision Blizzard buyout. He says what anyone paying attention figured out from the Bethesda buyout, if not when Microsoft started pushing Gamepass in the first place.

That the service - for which we have at least one outright conformation is not profitable - is probably a massive money sink hole that is being subsidized solely by Microsoft's monopolistic business in the way of Windows OS and IT pipelines/infrastructure; and that said losses cannot be sustained by the likes of Sony or Nintendo. By offering such a deal that is too good to be true, Microsoft is aiming to undercut the games market in its entirety and price out competitors, while shifting the way in which people consume games into a streaming-subscription regime.

In other words, do exactly what Microsoft did with Windows in the 90s, and what they've been doing with Office 365 in the 2010s. When they've got their new vertical, the honeymoon period will end and they'll jack up the prices, all while fostering an environment where games are worse than they are now.


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Much of Reeee balks at the notion and accuses Conover of fearmongering and "jumping to conclusions", when Phil "Blanket Ban" Spencer and Nadella have all but said it on numerous occasions. "Going after 3 billion gamers" this, "Keep out tech giants from harming the game industry" that - and seriously, Spencer said that shit after the Activision announcement. People should also remember that is was only last year that Microsoft tried doubling the price of Xbox Live Gold overnight, and backtracked after a wave of internet rage. That is not the kind of thing a subsidiary making a profit would try and do.

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Adam Conover is an idiot with stupid opinions and I'm genuinely surprised Resetera doesn't worship the ground he walks on with the usual tripe he spouts.
 
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RudeRoasts said:
Former Adam Ruins Everything host Adam Conover (who I've never heard of before, but apparently he's got some cred in games j**rnalist circles) puts out a Twitter video and small thread concerning Microsoft's ambitions in the games industry following the Activision Blizzard buyout. He says what anyone paying attention figured out from the Bethesda buyout, if not when Microsoft started pushing Gamepass in the first place.

That the service - for which we have at least one outright conformation is not profitable - is probably a massive money sink hole that is being subsidized solely by Microsoft's monopolistic business in the way of Windows OS and IT pipelines/infrastructure; and that said losses cannot be sustained by the likes of Sony or Nintendo. By offering such a deal that is too good to be true, Microsoft is aiming to undercut the games market in its entirety and price out competitors, while shifting the way in which people consume games into a streaming-subscription regime.

In other words, do exactly what Microsoft did with Windows in the 90s, and what they've been doing with Office 365 in the 2010s. When they've got their new vertical, the honeymoon period will end and they'll jack up the prices, all while fostering an environment where games are worse than they are now.


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Much of Reeee balks at the notion and accuses Conover of fearmongering and "jumping to conclusions", when Phil "Blanket Ban" Spencer and Nadella have all but said it on numerous occasions. "Going after 3 billion gamers" this, "Keep out tech giants from harming the game industry" that - and seriously, Spencer said that shit after the Activision announcement. People should also remember that is was only last year that Microsoft tried doubling the price of Xbox Live Gold overnight, and backtracked after a wave of internet rage. That is not the kind of thing a subsidiary making a profit would try and do.

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He's probably correct in some regard but the idea that Spencer and Nadalla have written on white board some where "step one, get everyone on our platform, step two, get our competition out of business, step three, jack up the prices" is pretty myopic and not really understanding how business decisions like this are made.

Everything is going to "the cloud" or "the edge" and that is a massive investment. But cloud and edge computing as the cornerstone of a business model can be diversified out into multiple products. Amazon didn't build AWS for professional services and then get into music and video streaming because they had a vision and thought they could earnestly compete with Netflix. They did it to further rationalize their already huge investment in cloud and edge computing and to sell the same product twice.
 
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Crazy how people can look at Netflix, look at Game Pass, and not really understand how GP is meant to work. Microsoft wants a huge library of games that they own outright and can offer up on their subscription without having to pay royalties to copyright holders.

Once that happens, they continue to charge $15/month to 20-30 million subscribers for a monthly revenue of $300-450 million dollars. Some of that revenue goes directly into their pocket, and some of it goes to fund new game development. Game Pass isn't meant to be some nefarious attempt to push everyone else out of the market while they hopelessly lose billions of dollars. There's a pretty clear and obvious way for them to make huge profits, and use those profits to fund new games. They're arguably in a better position that Netflix ever was, since they won't have to offer competing services on the platform they control.
 
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AirdropShitposts said:
Was going to just post this one, but there's something even more insane within that thread (which is about a woman being "virtually gang raped" aka people's avatars blocked her path and supposedly said rude things) than the stupid bans, people want criminalization of it:
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some of them have literally lost the fucking plot
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"treat online crimes the same as offline crimes."

Guess I'm going to jail then for all those noobs I've ran over and emotionally scarred in GTA.
 
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RudeRoasts said:
Lessons in why you never apologize to the mob. Rogan and his PR team need to get the memo and tell Spotify fuck off if they don't get it either.
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No there's a proper way to apologize, you say you're sorry for not being racist enough. I mean look at what he said, you could have easily squeezed in a few more racial slurs in there.
 
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AirdropShitposts said:
Another one from the same thread, dude got quoted and attacked like thirty times but I just grabbed the ones right next to it:
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Man thoese mods... Concern trolling...


Doesn`t take much google searching to show thetrin personally knows how toxic Resetera is.
The mobs came from him just for association with a dude that makes middle school style jokes and has no idea how to manage a game studio.

He is also as far away from white as you can get, whities on resetera can`t have the Indians getting out of line.
 
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