Elder Scrolls Online as well. I've never met a single person who plays it, but it does exist and appears to still be receiving DLC and other content updates as recently as 2025.
There were, but they've all since been ported to other platforms (also 99% of them were visual novel games).
If Bethesda would actually make some decent games they could have kept playing their petty game like this, but not releasing shit and Shartfield being so atrocious has twisted the wrist of Papa MS into reacting.
lol I figured it was the "bribing the press to give the game just a single percentage point average review score deficit such that Bethesda didn't have to pay Obsidian a promised performance bonus, i.e. fucking them out of a lot of money, that killed that relationship.
Grounded I+II were successful, and XBL partially made up for poor OW2/Avowed sales.
IKR, the Protectorate looked so close to being joinable, but uh no, enjoy picking between Momcorp and Mathmagicians.
I wish Obsidian would have the balls to do that. Even if it’s just a few terminal entries in a deserted bunker about a pre war politician named Rodd Broward. He promised 16 times the radiation protection for his shelter project but inside the bunker is nothing but skeletons, feral ghouls and signs of broken promises.
Naaah, she'll delegate that shit. There will be like a jeet death squad going from one studio to another. Nobody will even know their names, but they are feared and there's always something ominous in the air before they arrive.
Well, there are people out there that openly defend Sony for foregoing physical media for their next console.
Hell, I read it as attempting to be quite generous especially regarding his comment about the assumption of stupidity of executives. The fact that the developer apparently didn't know wtf they were doing as their next project after doom TDA went out the door is still utter insanity.
I'd say 'don't put it on Game Pass day one' would have been a pretty good strategy to increase revenue. Especially for a game like TDA which has very little replay value unless you're a speedrunner (in which case you'd play on PC).
Xbox certainly need to review what's released on game pass day one, as they've done with COD. But there's games such as Silksong, Forza Horizon 6, Clair Obscur and Oblivion Remastered have sold well despite being on Gamepass. I think day one game pass is being used as a bit of scapegoat for poor sales when I think a lot of games would not have sold well if they weren't on it.
The "ray tracing mandate" certainly didn't help. Nothing like automatically soft-locking about 30-40% of your potential audience out of the game.
Sold well on Xbox, or overall? Because I know Silksong broke Steam because demand was so high but I can't imagine people were rushing out to buy Xboxes so they could own a digital copy on their Series X.
I agree a lot of these games would have flopped either way, but they would have flopped less (or simply not existed) if you couldn't play them for "free" on Game Pass.
I sincerely doubt anybody outside id is even qualified to work with (much less understand) id tech. It's depressing to know now there's only two major general-purpose engines left (Unity and Unreal). id tech has always been state-of-the-art. Their decision to mandate ray tracing in id tech 8 was something a lot of people found baffling. It absolutely didn't need it. Doom 2016 ran silky-smooth on potatoes. Even "low quality" looked good. Losing that tech to history and scattering knowledge of its inner workings to the four winds by laying off its developers is a big technological loss. It being Microsoft-owned means we naturally can't expect them to open-source it like older engines were.