Javoo On Fire
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Maybe, they knew about this for a while and kept it hush, hushhmmm ..... perhaps you're right, this make sense ....
Maybe, they knew about this for a while and kept it hush, hushhmmm ..... perhaps you're right, this make sense ....
Its literally only a couple of days since Microsoft announced to shut down their celebrated Mixer platform and fucked over a entire community without any warning.People here saying EA, Activision and Take Two are better for the consumer than Microsoft?
Just saying I'd rather slam a brick into my balls repeatedly than buying an Xbox.People here saying EA, Activision and Take Two are better for the consumer than Microsoft?
hmmm, regarding Microsoft, when talking about games development and support, I would rather prefer treat like this :
Microsoft published and funded Killer Instinct. The level of support and community interaction that game had was fantastic. They'd do just fine with Mortal Kombat.
Point number 3 is huge here, and something most people just don't seem to understand the value/potential of.
Ignorance and platform eliteism is your answer.
It very well may be. Microsoft has already said exclusives are not a huge thing they're focusing on anymore. They're trying to bridge communities and platforms. Minecraft was never pulled from the other ecosystems, it's possible other Microsoft owned franchises may go multiplatform as well.
They published KI in 2013....... 2013. I'd like them to crank out more than ONE NRS game in 7 years.
yep .... nailed here
And supported it with new characters, content, modes, improvements, and balance changes/patches until 2018.
To do so, they'd basically have to buy themselves out from their owners, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment, and then also fund self publishing. That's extremely expensive.
Their leadership and design direction with the Xbox One was horrible, no question. I suspect that was all Mattrick though. Spencer seems to be going in a different direction.
fair enough, I am resentful that KI was only on xbox though, it is a very very good game and honestly better than any NRS game and would have flourished on multi platform.
The KI devs approached KI WAY different that NRS approaches their games. KI was an XBL game, where as MK is a AAA game. Also, from the beginning of KI's development, the game was produced with a 'free -to-play' model in mind, to be further developed over time. This is expressly different than how NRS does things.
There's a contradiction with your overall thinking here though: You're complaining that the Xbox platform has no exclusives, yet you're complaining that one of its exclusives is exclusive.
In all fairness, they bought a fledgling streaming service and tried to make it work with a major re-brand and probably a fuck-tonne of money. They were up against Twitch which is pretty much the only game streaming platform anyone cares about.
And it got 3 seasons of updates and supported for quite some time after that. Does make you wonder what the studio is up to now though?
Same goes for Street Fighter players who got fucked over with SF5 being PS4 exclusive. I played a heap of SF4 way back then (thankfully MK was going through a bit of a hiatus at that time) and would have loved to play SF5, but never happened thanks to the whole Sony-Capcom arrangement.
Killer Instinct had two developers: Double Helix, who was bought out after Season 1 by Amazon, as I recall, and then Iron Galaxy for the remainder. Iron Galaxy primarily does ports of games. It has been confirmed that currently, they are not working on Killer Instinct 4, and that Killer Instinct 4 is not being developed at this time.
I mean, my points aren't mutually exclusive. Exclusives are completely necessary and a good thing, but yeah I get why my friend on xbox is upset that his best game is the master chief collection with 15 year old games meanwhile sony is dropping multiple bangers per year.
Fair enough. For myself I'm going to wait a year or two after launch before buying a new console unless there's an exclusive on either platform that scream's must-own for me. Since all the first party Xbox Series X launch titles are apparently going to be on Xbox One as well, that likely won't occur.
I still play the master chief collection, Halo: CE still holds up shockingly well, especially at 60 fps. Halo 2 is a beautiful story imo and the Arbiter is probably my favorite video game protagonist in that game, the issues with the gameplay in the campaign due to it being rushed out too soon are easy to overlook. 3 is the perfect conclusion to the trilogy, my roommate / best friend and I replayed the campaign on legendary together with one of us being Chief and the other being Arbiter just like we did back when we were 7. Shit is incredible and I don't think Microsoft could produce another game that will evoke the same feelings almost 2 decades later.
