Comment on Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer

rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  All-New IP PRAGMATA Surpasses One Million Units Sold in Two Days!

  Every single executive on hearing the news:

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Pragmata isn’t the game competing with crypto, gambling, porn, and TikTok. That would be the likes of EA’s Not-FIFA, Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Destiny, NBA 2K; the kind of game that sells to people who don’t play many different video games.

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  • rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But have you heard of live service games? Gamers will continually pay for a 10-hour game with mechanics designed to trap lonely people with compulsive addiction issues for 5000 per year. Imagine all the billions that we will make from those suckers gamers.

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Its not just “risk averse”, its easy money. Look at Forza 6. Or the dozen different sports games that get rehashed every year. They sell like crazy.

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The location, modes, and featured cars are continually changing in Forza. I’m lagging on the titles and will probably skip Forza Horizon 5, but FH6 has great reviews on launch. While I can guess you aren’t into cars/racing like that, I guess I can’t really differentiate it from human sports games as much as I thought I could. A new football game has the same field shape, the same rules, and mostly the same teams, but just updates the roster and maybe background appearance? I don’t get it. But I can see the correlation to racing games if driving is a chore (not me) and if you aren’t up to date on the latest trends in cars (me). I guess both really come down to whether or not you can empathetically experience the game as something you actually want to do.

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Top tier copium. FIFA games also release to raving reviews every couple of years. It’s just FOMO.

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      • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        And your last 20 comments are you being a condescending twat, so I’ll go ahead and ignore you without looking further. I’ll check again after you’ve done a track day

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• LostWanderer@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That is Microsoft's ultimate problem, aside from how they started their current console cycle. They are too afraid to do something different, closing down studios that did something different and didn't meet unhinged sales metrics. I think that their studios need to be allowed to cook and work on their specialty, in order to bring something awesome to the table.

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  • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Bringing awesome to the table is not compatible with Corporations who are legally obligated to be risk averse for the shareholders.

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    • musicalphysics@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Corporations are not legally obligated to avoid risk.

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    • LostWanderer@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah, awesome games often happen by accident, not on purpose in Corporate run scenarios...Especially when you don't have heavy hitters that can often produce some real bangers in your ranks. Indie will always be the primary place where game innovation and breakout hits tend to happen.

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