Sounds like you’ve thought it out well and know exactly what you’re looking for now. A steam deck is on my wishlist as well. Just waiting to see if the rumored Xbox handheld is any good.

It sounds like you don’t want it much for gaming as much as for watching things. You’re probably better off getting a Roku stick or Fire stick. Much cheaper and you’ll get your show’s.

Over priced cosmetics make way more than came sales unfortunately. Back in like 2020 Call of Duty warfare was making like 5 million a day in micro transactions. It’s a bane on the industry.

I hope it worked out!

All things aside, it was really interesting to see that Xbox became the biggest publisher on PlayStation. Never thought I would see such a day.

This actually makes me chuckle.

Hopefully this game is able to emulate that greatness.

Will help if you ever get robbed lol.

Thank Jebus. I can’t go back to the 30. Gives me motion sickness now aha

Admitting you have a problem is the hardest part. Aha

Live service and online multiplayer aren’t one in the same. I’m all for multiplayer like ME3. It was fantastic and I hope they add something like it to the new one.

Also known as “living” games or “Games as a Service,” there are a few ways to define a live service game. These games are typically based upon some form of online multiplayer, built around the idea of constant evolution over time through the release of additional content and updates. Titles are often (but not always) free-to-play.

Not all games that receive post-launch content are live service games. Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring both have significant expansions but they’re not live service games. The number of changes and frequency of updates are generally much higher in a live service game.

For live service titles, the base game is often seen as the starting point, with the “end-game” being a jumping-off point for future expansions. Many of these games lay down multi-stage roadmaps for years of content, ahead of time. These games often see major shakeups to core assets like maps, classes, and game modes.

At its core, a live service game is a title that is designed to be continuously updated with new content and features after its initial release.

So having a multiplayer where you add a few new maps and characters over the games lifetime isn’t really live service in my opinion. It’s just DLC. There are no shakeups or major rebalancing or game changes made. Just some extras if you like.

I’m super pumped. Loved the first one. There’s nothing quite like being fully armoured and dying to an arrow through the helmet lol. Can’t wait to start this one.

You’re not wrong

It’s a giant market for third party sales platform. Have you looked at the Game store on windows? It has like 1/3 of the games as all the other platforms.

What about Windows?

Can only play it on Xbox and PC for now. But their “Everything is an Xbox” campaign makes it seem like they really don’t want to continue the hardware. Which is indeed going to piss off a loooooot of people. Myself included. I’m 100% for no exclusives, I’m not for turning Xbox into a hollow shell of themselves that wraps a third party store on other platforms.

Perhaps. But it also has a high probability of the overall brand dying out. Instead of being Xbox the game maker AND console maker (which gives them autonomy and the ability to things strictly publishes can’t), they’ll just be another EA or Ubisoft.

Yeah, sounds about right. I’m worried they just won’t make hardware anymore at this point. Become basically only a publisher and let the Xbox brand as we know it now die and it’ll become like an EA Play or Ubisoft whatever you’re forced to download on PC to play some games.

Some decent deals. I grabbed Death Standing and a few older titles.

Brave of you to even venture there aha.

I’m in the same boat. If it pulls off the Alien Isolation vibe it could be great.