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Robbo-92 wrote:Stalker 2 looked good (is this one just a timed exclusive?)

It's just a 3 month timed exclusive according to documents from the Epic/Apple trial.

ITSMILNER wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:

Garth wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:If that’s single player I’ll be downloading Sea of Thieves finally.

Split across five incredible Tall Tales packed with secrets and side-quests, Sea of Thieves: A Pirate’s Life sees Captain Jack Sparrow sailing in from beyond the horizon to sweep players into an epic new adventure! Free Jack from his prison and witness the power of the world’s greatest Pirate Treasure, which he just so happens to have stolen, before joining him on an unforgettable quest to stop dark forces from dominating this pirate paradise. This lovingly crafted story will be available to play alone or with a crew, and will be a free update for all players with the arrival of Sea of Thieves: Season Three on June 22.

Definitely be trying that then!

Does Sea of Thieves have a lot of single player content at this point?

I didn’t think it did? Or at least there’s not an offline mode? So you could always get raided by other players?

Wonder how this will work then? Same idea and people can still raid your game? Always been interested in playing it but not interested in playing online.

When it says alone it almost certainly means you on a ship with a sea full of other player filled ships. 99% of those ships are arsehats

Mafro wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:Stalker 2 looked good (is this one just a timed exclusive?)

It's just a 3 month timed exclusive according to documents from the Epic/Apple trial.

Ah that’s good for PS5 owners then, looked good!

The Watching Artist wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:

Garth wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:If that’s single player I’ll be downloading Sea of Thieves finally.

Split across five incredible Tall Tales packed with secrets and side-quests, Sea of Thieves: A Pirate’s Life sees Captain Jack Sparrow sailing in from beyond the horizon to sweep players into an epic new adventure! Free Jack from his prison and witness the power of the world’s greatest Pirate Treasure, which he just so happens to have stolen, before joining him on an unforgettable quest to stop dark forces from dominating this pirate paradise. This lovingly crafted story will be available to play alone or with a crew, and will be a free update for all players with the arrival of Sea of Thieves: Season Three on June 22.

Definitely be trying that then!

Does Sea of Thieves have a lot of single player content at this point?

I didn’t think it did? Or at least there’s not an offline mode? So you could always get raided by other players?

Wonder how this will work then? Same idea and people can still raid your game? Always been interested in playing it but not interested in playing online.

When it says alone it almost certainly means you on a ship with a sea full of other player filled ships. 99% of those ships are arsehats

See, I don’t want to play with the people who are just there to try and raid your ship I just want to sail the seas and take part in the single player stuff

If you’re doing a ‘tall tale’ (which is what these will be) they do have a system in place of you start it early on after logging on to put you onto a sparse server to avoid these things, I presume they’ll try harder for this.

Downloading Yakuza right now, Dark Alliance next, The Ascent, Flight Sim, Pyschonauts 2, Back4Blood, Forza 5 and Halo. That’s pretty stacked till Xmas for Gamepass.

Stuart wrote:

Tomous wrote:Microsoft are in a very good position aren't they?

Hard not to be impressed by how much they've turned things around over the last decade.

They're selling their games at a unsustainable financial loss via Gamepass to catch up, I think they will still struggle to get close to Nintendo & Sony this generation.

Do you have data backing that up? Or is it an assumption? I'm interested to see any data as I haven't seen much.

I think that's a pretty massive assumption. How would you even qualify Gamepass as "a loss"?

Coming This Year

Microsoft Flight Simulator (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S) – July 27
Hades (PC, Cloud, and Console) – August 21
Among Us (Cloud and Console) – 2021

Coming Day One This Year

Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance (PC, Cloud, and Console) – June 22
The Ascent (PC, Cloud, and Console) – July 29
Twelve Minutes (PC, Cloud, and Console) – August 19
Psychonauts 2 (PC, Cloud, and Console) – August 25
Aragami 2 (PC, Cloud, and Console)) – September 17
Sable (PC, Cloud, and Console) – September 23
Scorn (PC, Cloud, and Series X|S) – Fall 2021
The Anacrusis (PC, Cloud, and Console) – Fall 2021
Back 4 Blood (PC, Cloud, and Console) – October 12
Age of Empires IV (PC) – October 28
Forza Horizon 5 (PC, Cloud, and Console) – November 9
Shredders (PC, Cloud, and Console) – December 2021
Halo Infinite (PC, Cloud, and Console) – Holiday 2021
Hello Neighbor 2 (PC, Cloud, and Console) – 2021
The Gunk (PC, Cloud, and Console) – 2021

Coming Day One in The Future

A Plague Tale: Requiem
Atomic Heart
Redfall
Eiyuden Chronicle Hundred Heroes
Eiyuden Chronicle Rising
Contraband
Party Animals
Replaced
Slime Rancher 2
Somerville
Stalker 2
Starfield
Outer Worlds 2

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/06/13/ ... game-pass/

God damn, I've got to get Game Pass on my PC now. So many games on there that I want to play already. Mental value!

Shredders does look kind of interesting.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is the game I have been waiting on for 12 years. 12 strawberry floating years.

There's such a huge difference re-watching the videos again in 4K. I could have sworn the Xbox Reveal showcase had a 4K stream but nothing this week seems to have it.

Xeno wrote:S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is the game I have been waiting on for 12 years. 12 strawberry floating years.

I really hope they've not dumbed it down. Kinda got that feeling after the trailer.

Atomic Heart looks wonderful, I can't wait to see how it shapes up.

As a showcase of what we can come to expect from the new consoles, Forza Horizon 5 (they’re using a real sky!) and A Plague Tale: Requiem looked phenomenal (especially the beach scene at the conclusion).

Outer Worlds 2 trailer was also knowingly amusing.

It was Xbox’s best E3 in a while easily, just quick game after game but I’m surprised at how the gaming media have seemingly loved it.

Tomous wrote:

Stuart wrote:

Tomous wrote:Microsoft are in a very good position aren't they?

Hard not to be impressed by how much they've turned things around over the last decade.

They're selling their games at a unsustainable financial loss via Gamepass to catch up, I think they will still struggle to get close to Nintendo & Sony this generation.

Do you have data backing that up? Or is it an assumption? I'm interested to see any data as I haven't seen much.

Microsoft doesn't release data about the profit of Gamepass, which is itself a red flag. Eurogamer had an article a few months ago, where an analyst estimated they'd need 50 million subscribers to be profitable, & they're currently around 15 million.

Stuart wrote:Microsoft doesn't release data about the profit of Gamepass, which is itself a red flag. Eurogamer had an article a few months ago, where an analyst estimated they'd need 50 million subscribers to be profitable, & they're currently around 15 million.

Where do you get your info from? it was 23million subs 2 months ago.

twitter.com/JezCorden/status/1384878863189164035

The 50m subs figure 'to be profitable' is also wrong, it's to be 'as profitable' as the rest of the Xbox division, not the same really but you know this of course.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021 ... to-be-true 15 million in Sept 2020, big increase since then!

Twitter's first profitable year was 2019. By all reports, Uber and AirBNB have never made profit.

This is how big business works. Run at a loss until all the competition is gone.

Stuart wrote:https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-02-17-is-xbox-game-pass-too-good-to-be-true 15 million in Sept 2020, big increase since then!

it was 18m in January.

During the company's recent earnings call, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella divulged that Xbox Game Pass topped an impressive 18 million subscribers.

https://screenrant.com/xbox-game-pass-s ... milestone/

FFS.

Another year, another longing to play Sable

The Outer World's 2 was probably my personal favourite of the show, but I'll avoid getting too excited in case I can't play it wherever it releases.

Shredders looked good but I'm already getting that fix I hope from Rider's Republic (which has the benefit of me knowing I really liked Steep).

Starfield getting the same release date as Skyrim but 11/11/22 instead of 11/11/11 was both cool and a depressing reminder of how long it has been since the last Elder Scrolls game! The trailer gave a bit more sense of the design of the universe but we're still not really any more the wiser on what it will be like to play.

Party Animals just looks like a new Gang Beasts. There have been a few games that try to be Gang Beasts, I don't think any of them have ever really matched up. This certainly looked the part in the trailer but the proof is in the playing I guess.