Community MetaSteam | January 2022 - With a new year comes great responsibility, BOY!

[Kyougar]

"Sony should just buy other studios themselves"

non-MS publisher when Sony walks in the door: "well, well, well. If it isn't the desperate puppy drowning right now, in need of a lifeline."

 

[NarohDethan]

Sony does not have MS fuck you money to pull this kind of stuff anyway

 

[gabbo]

But I’m not getting less choice, there’s just a different person signing the cheques now. Call of Duty is still coming anyway.

And it’s not like it’s any different in movies or music either after all. This is what happens with big industries over time

I guess I'm just trying not to be complacent about an industry moving in that direction, since it's a bad direction.

Sony does not have MS fuck you money to pull this kind of stuff anyway

I'm sure Sony does, but the Gaming division itself I doubt has that kind of cash to toss around

 

[NarohDethan]

Overwatch on Steam when

 

[LEANIJA]

I just want a new Singularity.

Yeah I was just thinking that maybe MS could be a force to bring back from creativity to Activision; they got many cool dormant IPs that havent been touched in ages...

 

[--------]

I'm sure Sony does

Not even Sony as a whole does, Microsoft is in a completely different ballpark.

 

[low-G]

Overwatch on Steam when

Have the Gears Tactics devs make Overwatch Tactics

 

[TioChuck]

Yeah... this isn't looking good for Sony, The majority of people buy consoles to play COD/FIFA, IMO, those people will buy the console that has COD, if MS decides to sunset Warzone for something else, Sony is pretty much fucked.

 

[Le Pertti]

Ok listen, Diablo on the deck.

 

[beep boop]

All Sony needs to do is start competing a little harder, doncha know. Now that Microsoft's lighting a fire under their asses, maybe they'll make their ecosystem more appealing with services worth having

 

[Yoshi]

Microsoft, contact wesp5 and update Bloodlines with the unofficial patch on Steam

 

[moemoneyb1]

 

[fokkusu]

What is next company Microsoft swallows?

--

Can we get now Crash Bandi 4 and THPS1+2 to Steam?

 

[gabbo]

of course they say that before hand.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

What is next company Microsoft swallows?

Sega (genuinely shocked this hasn’t happened yet)

 

[TioChuck]

Sega (genuinely shocked this hasn’t happened yet)

Probably because of gambling? Ins't Sega Sammy big into pachinko stuff with Sega Games IPs?

 

[madjoki]

What is next company Microsoft swallows?

Valve.

 

[ZKenir]

nihom falcon clearly

 

[Kyougar]

"Playstation gamers will continue getting guitar hero releases."

 

[low-G]

What is next company Microsoft swallows?

Nintendo

 

[Ge0force]

Same, sorry but I have said before I think fears of consolidation are overblown

Perhaps. But Microsoft has proven several times already what a shitty and anti-consumer company they can be when they have a very successful product. If/when that happens again, people will realize how many popular and long running franchises and studios this will affect.

 

[dex3108]

 

[Kyougar]

What is next company Microsoft swallows?

Alicesoft

 

[MonthOLDpickle]

Witcher 3

Fallout 4 quests wre okay, but Witcher's weren't great either. I gave TW3 a good 85.5 hours which I never made it to the DLC and really the only mission I remember is the Baron one. Rest of them were mostly generic point a to b using batman vision.

 

[manchego obfuscator]

Kotick stands to collect nearly $300 million if he's asked to step down once the deal closes, which is what I expect to happen. obscene

 

[TioChuck]

I was just thinking, Crash and/or Spyro by Rare... Probably a long shot, if they don't give a fuck for Banjo..., lol.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

I was just thinking, Crash and/or Spyro by Rare... Probably a long shot, if they don't give a fuck for Banjo..., lol.

Yeah, given how well Sea of Thieves is doing i don't think we'll see Banjo for a few years yet. This ActiBlizz/MS deal won't be done for another 18 months so i don't expect any big visible changes until then at least.

 

[Kal1m3r0]

Aye, some original DS2 with DLDSR and Nvidia fx (no SSRTGI unfortunately)

 

[ezodagrom]

I was just thinking, Crash and/or Spyro by Rare... Probably a long shot, if they don't give a fuck for Banjo..., lol.

Or the other way around, Banjo by Toys for Bob. Probably not, but at least hopefully Toys for Bob will be freed from CoD.

 

[Dinjoralo]

Consolidation is the only part about this that has any real value. Shrinking the industry isn't worth it 'for CoD on mah gamepass!'. Let Actard burn to the ground instead and the staff found new studios free of the terrible problems they were working under

I've never touched Call of Duty, and have played very few other Activision games, probably about five total in the past eight years or so where I've been independent and in control of my own money. I don't have much interest in their games coming to Gamepass or otherwise being available to me, besides Crash Bandicoot I suppose.
The way I see it, consolidation is probably inevitable with the current trajectory of The Economy, whatever the hell that is. And if consolidation is going to happen, the Microsoft of now is probably the best entity to do it. They have diverse leadership that generally aren't bigots, they have enough income outside of games to lean on, their studios generally don't seem to have crunch issues outside of 343, and so on.
It's the Microsoft of a decade from now that I'm worried about. But thats a problem for 35-year-old me.

 

[Futaleufu]

Just a reminder that MS now owns most of Sierra's catalogue.

 

[ExistentialThought]

Valve.

I mean you joke, but I still wonder what will happen in 5-15 years time when Gabe retires. Especially if he fails to achieve his brain computer interface stuff and upload his brain to the Steam servers.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Well, i hope some of you kept your ActiBlizz shares because they've just raised by 37% on the news of the acquisition.

 

[beep boop]

I mean you joke, but I still wonder what will happen in 5-15 years time when Gabe retires. Especially if he fails to achieve his brain computer interface stuff and upload his brain to the Steam servers.

lmao this would be most gaben thing to do

 

[TioChuck]

Well, i hope some of you kept your ActiBlizz shares because they've just raised by 37% on the news of the acquisition.

As I understand, it doesn't matter, trade was halted at $90 a share, and will be sold at $95 a share to MS anyway(pretty much the same value before the pr shitshow started).

 

[ExistentialThought]

lmao this would be most gaben thing to do

Gabe's digital brain every week before Tuesday maintenance

 

[ZKenir]

wow cool, 5 years from now the whole videogame industry will be owned by 3 companies just like the movie industry

and after some sappy pep talk emil, master chief and crash will teleport to the Core of the MetaVerse to fight an evil CEO and his goons and give everything back to where it belongs, in the hands of the true fans

 

[derExperte]

As I understand, it doesn't matter, trade was halted at $90 a share, and will be sold at $95 a share to MS anyway(pretty much the same value before the pr shitshow started).

No, stocks are still getting traded, see https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ATVI/.

And current price is below the offer because youneverknow. It's not done until it's done.

 

[Stevey]

Does this mean we now have to pester Phil to free Raven Software?

 

[gabbo]

Does this mean we now have to pester Phil to free Raven Software?

yes, and another studio balled into CoD duty

 

[CommodoreKong]

I mean you joke, but I still wonder what will happen in 5-15 years time when Gabe retires. Especially if he fails to achieve his brain computer interface stuff and upload his brain to the Steam servers.

From what I've heard a lot of Valve employees have shares in Valve, especially long time employees. I wouldn't be surprised if Gabe is the majority shareholder though.

Honestly it will be interesting to see what happens with Valve. Gabe is getting close to retirement age.

 

[Amzin]

Wow I didn't realize how low ActiBlizzards shares were. The company I work for (not gaming) is being acquired for $95 a share and we're one of the least well-off fish in our sea. Fewer shares of course but still - a competently, non-corrupt run ActiBlizzard would never have been affordable. Really remarkable the shareholders never took stronger action against the company.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

This puzzle game looks interesting.

 

[Hektor]

and after some sappy pep talk emil, master chief and crash will teleport to the Core of the MetaVerse to fight an evil CEO and his goons and give everything back to where it belongs, in the hands of the true fans

is this the plot of ready player two

 

[madjoki]

Microsoft has 3 launchers now, Battle.net, Bethesda.net and Microsoft store. Wonder if they keep all or will merge? Seems like something that could be huge undertaking.

 

[prudis]

Microsoft has 3 launchers now, Battle.net, Bethesda.net and Microsoft store. Wonder if they keep all or will merge? Seems like something that could be huge undertaking.

look at how long it took them to start merging Minceraft launcher

 

[fantomena]

Microsoft has 3 launchers now, Battle.net, Bethesda.net and Microsoft store. Wonder if they keep all or will merge? Seems like something that could be huge undertaking.

MS can't handle 1 launcher (Xbox App), letting them handling all 3 of those trash launchers will not work out for them.

Valve seems to have monopoly on competent storefront programmers.

 

[prudis]

 

[ezodagrom]

Microsoft has 3 launchers now, Battle.net, Bethesda.net and Microsoft store. Wonder if they keep all or will merge? Seems like something that could be huge undertaking.

look at how long it took them to start merging Minceraft launcher

I'm guessing most likely it'll be a long term transition, I'm guessing they'll start with releasing new games without needing those launchers (at least Starfield doesn't say that it needs the Bethesda launcher on the Steam store page? Though it may be too early to be sure), but no idea what they'll do or if they'll do anything about already released games.

 

[Nabs]

I need Microsoft to revive those companies that were turned into COD slaves.