Comment on Fable is delayed to Feb 2027 | via Wario64
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t think Microsoft actually releases games. They just announce them, delay them, and cancel them.
They release them sometimes, but only after they’ve gone through a period of mandatory enshittification.
ie. Apparently Starfield didn’t just have a regenerating O^2 meter before Phil got his changes in, the reason there are so many ‘almost interactable’ O^@ containers around is you were able to run out. Fuel too.
The game would be a lot more suspenseful with those features.
Then you’ve got RedFall, Halo 5, Gears 5, etc.
starfield was originally going to be much more survival based, running out of fuel and getting legit stranded possibly on some backwater planet nobody is on was a real possibility. this would have made outposts invaluable to your success as you can set them up as refueling stations across the galaxy
MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And sometimes they lay off all the developers, too!
brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 days ago
Especially if those devs’ studio just released a surprise critically-acclaimed game that had millions of players and that basically everyone praised!
Also that “AAAA” studio that was founded specifically to have “unlimited resources” and make the new standard in video games and ended up being closed before they could finish one game.