Xbox Game Studios Stupidity Hate Thread Game Pass Edition

[Mike Matei's Penis]

Tim Cook walks on stage and announces that Apple now owns Halo, proceeding to break the minds of every remaining diehard fanboy.

Would be funny because they could say "originally Marathon was always a Mac exclusive"

The golden console age was the PS3/Xbox 360 era.

Maybe at the beginning of the 360 generation but by the end a lot of games had mandated installs (esp on PS3) and DLC. Would argue the gen before was the real golden age because they actually had to print the entire game on the disc

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

by the end a lot of games had mandated installs

There was nothing wrong with that, the game was still on disc but now it loaded faster by loading direct from the hard drive.

So Ubisoft and EA are out of XBOX GAME PASS??

XBOX is suspended deals with third-party developers tied to the Game Pass subscription service. Another major change might be on the horizon, and it might impact the kinds of games available on the subscription-based platform.

XBOX ‘Suspending’ Third-Party Game Pass Deals

 

[Computer Guardian]

So Ubisoft and EA are out of XBOX GAME PASS??



XBOX ‘Pausing’ Third-Party Game Pass Deals

Thier plan for thier price hike that fucked game pass even remotely working practically hinged on those extra subscriptions given thats what they advertised as the part of the new "best" tier. I doubt there was still enough people who did have said tier to justify keeping the other game subscription services being part of Game Pass.

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

Thier plan for thier price hike that fucked game pass even remotely working practically hinged on those extra subscriptions given thats what they advertised as the part of the new "best" tier. I doubt there was still enough people who did have said tier to justify keeping the other game subscription services being part of Game Pass.

Whatever Phil was smoking, game pass was never sustainable from the start. This might be the end of game pass as we know it.

 

[El Chacal De La Trompeta]

Queen Asha, close undead labs. Do it

 

[trent]

XBOX ‘Suspending’ Third-Party Game Pass Deals

Welp, it was nice while it lasted but i'll be fucked if i'm paying MS a monthly sub just for their deeply mediocre first party games.

Is it just me or has the gaming industry been trying its hardest to fucking die over the past few months?

 

[Swine Schwein]

Queen Asha, close undead labs. Do it

More like unemployed labs

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

This sounds really bad.

 

[Incecticyder]

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This sounds really bad.

They gobbled up studios and this is them puking them out.

 

[Problematic User Forever]

Can it be any more over?

 

[Mister Fister]

So how is the console market supposed to survive?
Any new studios who are entering the market seem to be focused on PC as lead platforms.

 

[wholetthegodsout]

Queen Asha, close undead labs. Do it

The hilarious implication of this news is that after 5-6 years they must be nowhere close to a viable product. I think the latest trailer said 2027, but considering they released a cgi trailer in 2020 when the game didnt exist, and they just had an Alpha stage playtest. I assume Asha and her team have no faith in them delivering something in 2027. Don't people actually like State of Decay? You would think there would be confidence to ship it. Phil would have given them all a pat on the back and given them a 2030 ship date.

**Edit** I do see there is a lot of gameplay footage online so maybe this gets released. I just dont get why Microsoft wouldnt do it. They must have zero confidence in it.

 

[TheHarbinger]

I do see there is a lot of gameplay footage online so maybe this gets released. I just dont get why Microsoft wouldnt do it. They must have zero confidence in it.

Studios usually publicly release lots of gameplay alpha footage hoping for more funding or a new publisher.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

So how is the console market supposed to survive?

It's not. Nintendo is going to have a complete Monopoly on that.

The oldest fucking bastard held out longer than the younger bloods did, and considering the old bastard isn't doing well either, that speaks volumes on how the younger bloods royally fucked up. We can't even rely on anyone new to step up because they don't even know what the fuck they are doing (see: Intellivision Amico and any other machine that has some form of Android shoved into it)

 

[The Early 2000s]

Please not Undead Labs, not until they get SoD3 out the door at least ffs. It's the one thing I'm looking forward to from Xbox

The hilarious implication of this news is that after 5-6 years they must be nowhere close to a viable product. I think the latest trailer said 2027, but considering they released a cgi trailer in 2020 when the game didnt exist, and they just had an Alpha stage playtest. I assume Asha and her team have no faith in them delivering something in 2027. Don't people actually like State of Decay? You would think there would be confidence to ship it. Phil would have given them all a pat on the back and given them a 2030 ship date.

**Edit** I do see there is a lot of gameplay footage online so maybe this gets released. I just dont get why Microsoft wouldnt do it. They must have zero confidence in it.

It's a fairly dependable series. SoD2 had 10 million players on 2021 I believe? SoD3 has been in development for 4 years. I don't get it, they're a small studio. Money's THAT bad over there?

 

[Agares]

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This sounds really bad.

Let the industry burn.

Whatever Phil was smoking, game pass was never sustainable from the start. This might be the end of game pass as we know it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dAHwKKigV_s

The slop factory has been shut down. On one hand, old Gamepass was actually a good value but it also discouraged people from actually buying games and that was going to have consequences eventually.

 

[Tanner Glass]

It's a fairly dependable series. SoD2 had 10 million players on 2021 I believe? SoD3 has been in development for 4 years. I don't get it, they're a small studio. Money's THAT bad over there?

Dependable? They had a single good game that doesn't hold up despite being serviceable. They also made that game before being bought by Microsoft, so likely key people exited.

SoD3 has not been in development for 4 years, the released a trailer in 2020 and then only in April of 2026 admitted they weren't really working on the game and that trailer was not based on anything they had been working on. They're in a public alpha phase now (being handled through a fucking discord) but there's next to no chance this game is ready any time soon (unless they just make it SoD2 with minor changes) given the huge dev cycles games take these days.

SoD2 also had a fair bit of problems with regards to netplay, multiplayer, replayability, story and difficulty. It's just another studio in Microsoft's long list of "given piles of time and money with nothing to show for it" that's almost certainly going to be shown the axe - although it's fun to watch them scramble.

 

[The Last Stand]

So Ubisoft and EA are out of XBOX GAME PASS??



XBOX ‘Suspending’ Third-Party Game Pass Deals

Nothing on there about existing deals with Game Pass like EA Play and Ubisoft Classics, just that future potential deals are "on hold."

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This sounds really bad.

I had wanted MS to buy Sega since they were buddy-buddy when Sega turned into a third party developer. Turns out that Sega dodged a bullet in retrospect.

 

[The Early 2000s]

Dependable? They had a single good game that doesn't hold up despite being serviceable. They also made that game before being bought by Microsoft, so likely key people exited.

SoD3 has not been in development for 4 years, the released a trailer in 2020 and then only in April of 2026 admitted they weren't really working on the game and that trailer was not based on anything they had been working on. They're in a public alpha phase now (being handled through a fucking discord) but there's next to no chance this game is ready any time soon (unless they just make it SoD2 with minor changes) given the huge dev cycles games take these days.

SoD2 also had a fair bit of problems with regards to netplay, multiplayer, replayability, story and difficulty. It's just another studio in Microsoft's long list of "given piles of time and money with nothing to show for it" that's almost certainly going to be shown the axe - although it's fun to watch them scramble.

Devs have stated they started development in 2021/22, it's been 4 years. The trailer most likely wasn't even made by them but some xbox PR firm/whatever the fuck. I personally chalk that up as xbox's fault.

Criticizing the replayability and difficulty is subjecti-

Listen, the games UL make arent high art, I know, but they were profitable and the dev team is small (50 people?) so i cant imagine the overhead is high. They got something functional made currently and they're gonna shutter it before they even get alpha feedback?

Hellblade? I can see why xbox balked. This? With a genre this safe? Either xbox is more fucked than we can imagine or UL heats their office by tossing Microsoft money in the furnaces. I'm leaning toward the former.

 

[wholetthegodsout]

Yeah that is what I am thinking too. State of Decay checks all the boxes. Open world, Online/live component, sandbox survival gameplay, and a proven reputation (the two state of decay games have fans). The fact that they have no interest in putting out what they invested in hints at how dire things are.

All these studios got bought out. The studio heads probably became millionaires and lost any hunger to put out games since sugar daddy phil told them to take their time and work on passion projects.