I just realized FH3 will be Xbox One only, finally!
Phil has said before he wants to do GWG on PC too though. When that happens, what's the difference other than one's paying and one's not? There's none, which is completely unfair. Not that paying for MP was ever fair in the first place, but yeah.Games with gold. Really, they don't have to do anything, people will still pay but it would be an amazing mic drop for the Xbox console and throw a spanner in the PlayStation works. That would get users to jump to Xbox. Subscription is easy money but the bigger picture is the ecosystem, what do Microsoft value more long term? They are desperate for Windows 10 and store to be successful.
Only problem with that, and we've discussed it before is people will just pick Halo/Gears and they will lose out on a lot of money. I guess a potential way of doing it would be any unreleased new IP, or choose between any game (or two?) 6months+ old.I think dropping multiplayer and having just GWG and DWG (and maybe throw in 1 AAA title of their choosing from MS IP) would do well. MS is definitely trying to get the Windows 10 store successful on the gaming side, that's one way to do it.
Phil has said before he wants to do GWG on PC too though. When that happens, what's the difference other than one's paying and one's not? There's none, which is completely unfair. Not that paying for MP was ever fair in the first place, but yeah.
Phil has said before he wants to do GWG on PC too though. When that happens, what's the difference other than one's paying and one's not? There's none, which is completely unfair. Not that paying for MP was ever fair in the first place, but yeah.
With Neo now confirmed and not being at E3, I think that means there's a very good chance of no Scorpio stuff mentioned at E3 at all.
If they want to push the idea of blurring the lines between PC and Xbox One then bringing GWG to PC and making Xbox Live MP free on Xbox is a big step that needs to be taken.
I think you'd have a lot of people maintain Gold for the free games.
That why they will announce free multiplayer this E3 along with new Gold sub now work on PC and Xbox, one sub multiple devices, it make too much sense.
If they want to push the idea of blurring the lines between PC and Xbox One then bringing GWG to PC and making Xbox Live MP free on Xbox is a big step that needs to be taken.
I think you'd have a lot of people maintain Gold for the free games.
With Neo now confirmed and not being at E3, I think that means there's a very good chance of no Scorpio stuff mentioned at E3 at all.
I agree with both of you. I still don't think they'd do it though, it's a lot of money. They do have to do something though. I'd love for them to make MP free, even though I would keep my subscription anyways for the free games, it's the principle.
Thing about making it free is they will never be able to go back to a paid service, so while it may seem smart in the short term, long term it could be damaging.
If they bolstered the quality, and added other perks, I certainly would. But Xbox Live is an enormous revenue stream for MS. I genuinely don't believe MS would have continued to invest in Xbox without it.
This is the only Monday of the year I look forward to. lol
We are getting there.
I think both would be fated to do badly, no matter what.I agree N&B is incredibly unique and creative. I don't know if it would have been better without a known IP attached though, most people would have probably dismissed it as "a weird vehicle building game" or just ignored it altogether. Which is a shame.
"Maybe" it could have pulled a Minecraft and make a name for itself, but I doubt it, seeing how a game like Project Spark failed to find an audience (granted, the need for creativity was even higher in that one).
I don't agree at all.
Scorpio's announcement would stand even taller without the Neo announcement then with. Imagine the amount of limelight it would have being the only upgraded hardware announcement at E3.
The Neo not being at E3 should push Microsoft even harder to have Scorpio there.
Microsoft have already shown they are willing to take risks, even losing out on big revenue streams, in order to push marketshare and monetize in other ways.
Just look what they did with Visual Studio and Xamarin, that's almost on the level if not beyond making MP free.
I just want to reiterate my hype for FH3.... this is going to be soooo good.
What did you guys miss in FH2 that you hope for in FH3?
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Still don't believe it will happen. If they drop Xbox Live Gold, I'd consider it the biggest megaton I've ever beheld. FF7R/Last Guardian/Shenmue 3 and X1-BackwardsCompat would be utterly dwarfed by it; they would have nothing on it. Dreams 2/3/4.0 would be every year. I would buy an Xbone for my best mate immediately.
That's simply too good to ever occur.
With Neo now confirmed and not being at E3, I think that means there's a very good chance of no Scorpio stuff mentioned at E3 at all.
With Neo now confirmed and not being at E3, I think that means there's a very good chance of no Scorpio stuff mentioned at E3 at all.
So have you seen the game in Action? Are the graphics improved substantially from FH2? Is there going to be more car customization? How big are the cities? Is there going to be a classic rock radio station?
Should I be getting hyped for a new Age of Empires?
Heard a few little whispers that its in the works last week but nothing since
Would love this to be true!
Any predictions on what the "Backward compatibility"-esque announcement will be this year? I've heard some speculation that, due to Xbox leaning into PC, it could be Online Play becoming free or separate from Xbox Live?
While I'm yet to believe that could happen, it would certainly turn some heads.
Somebody answer this man! We've got like 3 insiders just sorta hanging out around here, surely somebody's heard something!
Ekim, where are you?
That doesnt mean anything...
They bought Xamarin(a tool that costs a $1000 per license) and made it free with Visual Studio... then they made Visual Studio free on PC, Mac and Linux.
The lack of actual classic rock in Horizon is greatly disturbing. Euro pop is nice and all but classic driving music is rock.
I want:
Metallica - Fuel
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Styx - Renegade
With Neo now confirmed and not being at E3, I think that means there's a very good chance of no Scorpio stuff mentioned at E3 at all.
Our company is paying over $5500 for each Visual Studio Enterprise license, which includes Xamarin and it's tool chain. That is as of two weeks ago. To be honest, I don't know why the other VS licenses don't include Xamarin in the spreadsheet they sent out, because, as you say, I thought I recall them saying it was free for everyone.
Didn't we already have some informative sauces in the Scorpio thread basically imply they would mention it at their conference?
Anything good?
Has the crackdown 3 teaser site been posted?
http://pages.engage.xbox.com/page.a...9371ab3805dfcc1201e185ad038b50b1cf119906bc902
Just speculation.
Skills for kills agent.
Yeah so the Xbox Instagram account posted a picture of RECORE box art on top of the Xbox one with the number 3 which means days. The box art is only temporary. Xbox is hyping up recore a bit. They did this on their Twitter account on day 7. Have they done other games?
Dunno about any other games but I think Recore might be their show closer. Everyone expects a small 2.5d game or something which thanks to Shinobi, we already know it's not. The other stuff Shinobi has leaked about it sounds really good aswell, IMO it has potential to be one of the best games this year based on leaks.
If it lives up to it's potential & ms knows it's amazing, it'd be a really good way to end the show I think. Nobody expects it to be the type of game it is, or even knows anything about it really, and if it's amazing that's just the cherry on top.
Very hyped to see more Recore.
With Neo not being shown MS can be more vague about Scorpio. At this point I don't expect more than a tease.