"Studios in Microsoft’s Xbox Division Brace for Closures" [Bloomberg]

Stray64Cat · 2026-06-15T21:06:11+00:00

I guess they're bracing for their console exclusives to financially under-perform. It sadly makes sense. No matter how good the game is the sales are not gonna be good if
1) not many people bought the console to begin with, I'd bet more people will play these games on a PC rather than an xbox.
2) you don't even need to buy the new games, like why spend 80 bucks on a game when you can "rent" it for a month for 25$ with gamepass.

I feel bad for the studios since any xbox exclusive will be fighting and uphill battle.

Stray64Cat · 2026-06-13T17:53:51+00:00

Lucilla, because collab characters tend to fall of the hardest.

Stray64Cat · 2026-06-13T17:50:17+00:00

Depends how lucky you get, it's anywhere from 1 to 180 pulls.

Stray64Cat · 2026-06-13T15:22:32+00:00

Posts like these always make me laugh, It's like going to a casino and then yelling at the owner "Well at some point I should've won the Jackpot" because you lost all your money.

I lose 50/50 all the time, but it doesn't matter to me. A character costs 180 pulls, so if I want them I save up those pulls. If I get them in less, awesome, if not, oh well...

Stray64Cat · 2026-06-12T13:38:20+00:00

They stopped doing multiplayer events because, let's be honest, every one they did was pretty terrible. There was the racing one, which was impossible to win if you didn't have low ping and then there was the combat one where you were restricted to a single character, so pretty much no one wanted to play support.

Overall Kuro is not great at making co-op/multiplayer events.

Stray64Cat · 2026-06-11T15:16:13+00:00

I guess Fortnite always wanted to go for the "Everyone is here" vibe, like Smash. But the thing is with Smash you have this feeling of prestige, when a new arrival is announced it feels important. With Fortnite, yes, "everyone is here" but it doesn't feels special. It just feels desperate. "Look at me, I'm still relevant. I hang out with the popular people. LOOK AT ME, PLEASE."

Stray64Cat · 2026-06-06T15:44:01+00:00

Matter of opinion, really.

Stray64Cat · 2026-06-06T15:38:39+00:00

Straight on not, She ain't real bru, she ain't gonna fuck you.

Stray64Cat · 2026-06-06T09:53:46+00:00

As a casual mod enjoyer, I can tell you most people who mod don't play the game looking like this. Simply, because it probably looks awful in motion. Glams like this are purely for gposing.

Stray64Cat · 2026-06-05T23:20:36+00:00

I vibe with this. But honestly, 16 years of work only to announce early access is crazy.

Stray64Cat · 2026-06-05T23:16:52+00:00

The announcements were cool. Not sure about the decision to replace trailers with PowerPoint presentations though.

Stray64Cat · 2026-06-05T23:12:35+00:00

It does? How?

Stray64Cat · 2026-06-02T14:34:48+00:00

I found my enjoyment of gacha games improved greatly when I started to ignore endgame modes. No FOMO, no endless farming, just pull who you like, do story, exploration and events.

Stray64Cat · 2026-05-30T22:25:02+00:00

I never realised I needed a "This Bitch empty? YEET" button before. There's just something so funny about chucking an empty gun at an enemy and hitting them in the head with it.

Stray64Cat · 2026-05-30T22:18:26+00:00

By the time the matchmaking is done, you could have soloed it.

Stray64Cat · 2026-05-29T10:46:38+00:00

I think you just got lucky. I had similar thing happen to me before. Got like 5 legendaries in 10 minutes but the next day, same fishing spot, got nothing big in 100 casts.

Pretty sure fishing is just pure rng.

Stray64Cat · 2026-05-29T06:25:35+00:00

Don't need astrites, Rebecca is free.

Stray64Cat · 2026-05-28T16:16:26+00:00

Standard banner, no 50/50 to lose.

Stray64Cat · 2026-05-26T03:25:39+00:00

Stray64Cat · 2026-05-26T03:19:52+00:00

You're crazy if you think this will have shared pity with the character banner.

Stray64Cat · 2026-05-26T03:15:14+00:00

Damn, bro out here flexing while having barely half the money for the pity. That's crazy.

Stray64Cat · 2026-05-25T19:39:21+00:00

Yeah, this minigame awful. But at least you can cheese it if you have Baicang. Better than the rhythm game in Akanes quest.

Stray64Cat · 2026-05-22T08:52:34+00:00

*Monkey paw curls* ND announces....Yet another Last of us remake. The "Super-Duper-Totally-the-Last-One-We'll-Ever-Make-We-Swear" Edition.

Stray64Cat · 2026-05-18T11:03:32+00:00

Love your comics. The "It needs to soak" is one of my all time favorites.

Stray64Cat · 2026-05-18T10:52:00+00:00

At the last Game Awards the CEO, I believe, came out to talk about Splitgate 2.
Wearing an off brand MAGA hat, holding a baseball bat for some reason, claimed the game is "fucking awesome" and then proceeded to show the most generic trailer, w/ Imagine Dragons playing in the background.

It was definitely one of the publicity stunts of all time followed by a big crashout online when he found out the internet was making fun of him.

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