There is failure, a woeful experience on the long road to success that instills in us lessons to better ourselves going forward. Then there is sending a multi-national profitable division of Square Enix into the red tier of failure. A category where the takeaway is, “whatever we do going forward, it shouldn’t be that.” And “that” is precisely what has been announced as the plan going forward.
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At long last, both next generational consoles have launched with virtually no games, wonky software, and hardware issues. All whilst somehow unmasking a shadowy cabal of FedEx drivers who have been stealing people’s packages when Walmart or Target has marked their boxes as consoles. Except for the latter, each was to be expected or rumored long before launch.
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As our partners from Rapidphonebuyer is saying, the festive season of Christmas approaches, there will be several offers put up on mobile phones of all kinds. You can expect a considerable discount on handsets of brands like Apple, Samsung, and others. What this also means is the resale value of older models will decline further. It thus makes sense to get rid of your old phone as early as possible to get maximum cash.
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Apple has made headlines with the announcement of two significant changes coming to their Appstore. Come January, Apple will launch a small business program that will implement a new percentage program for its Appstore. Apple’s CEO issued the following statement with the announcement of the new program.
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In prior coverage of the ongoing Apple/Epic legal conflict, I’ve come under the accusation of providing biased coverage in favor of Apple over Epic Games. The idea governing this notion appears to be that because Apple is a much worse company than Epic Games, coverage should thus favor Epic over Apple by edict of popular consensus. With the issue again appearing in the news, what better time to discuss how this is patently insane.
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A strange rumor has been spreading through the gaming community that Elden Ring has been canceled. While these rumors’ origins are unknown, the lengthy silence between any formal announcements or details about the game likely contributes to the ongoing belief and apparent validity of them.
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Flashback with me for a moment to when YouTuber ItsAGundam was covering the ongoing Bethesda paid mod fiasco and its fallout. In the public eye, outrage from the consumer was constant, and modders who had their work stolen were beginning to discuss taking legal action against Steam and Bethesda for selling their work. As ItsAGundam would report, behind the scenes, many of the modders considered this stunt the final straw.
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There is something to be said for human greed. It is a wonderful driving force that has brought much good into the world, just as it has brought much ill into it as well. Controversially many in the video game industry have opted to raise the price of brand-new games from the standard $60 to $70. Naturally, consumers have bucked at the notion, but the industry conceitedly says such descent doesn’t matter; you’ll buy the games anyway.
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The world is filled with a vast multitude of strange, unusual, and outright dangerous places. For example, the state of Maine. It lures you in with scenic views of rolling hills and leaves changing and then throws you up against some cosmic horror or drops you in a parallel reality that overlaps with our own. The Dark Pictures, a series that produces short yet enjoyable horror experiences, has sent players to a mysterious ship and a coastal town with dark secrets. Now players will venture to war-torn Iraq to discover great evil that has awoken beneath the desert in House of Ashes.
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A while back, a quaint and colorful Japanese game came to our attention. Sakuna of Rice and Ruin set players as a banished harvest goddess who must grow food for people who she is now with while simultaneously fighting hulking monstrosities and various other monsters in side-scrolling action. Perhaps it was the unique combo as I am a sucker for both, or it was the colorful and vibrant art style, but I eagerly awaited the game’s western release. Then I waited and waited some more.
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Watch Dogs: Legions is one of those games where you have to wonder who in their right mind greenlit it. The Watch Dogs franchise started with strong. For the time, it was the most preordered game in Ubisoft’s history and then proceeded to match that momentum on launch with the strongest sales in the company’s history to that date.
By July, the game had shipped over 8 million units and was an unqualified success by any metric. Then Watch Dogs 2 happened. Unlike the originals substantial success, the game went on to sell 80% fewer copies. With many attributing the game’s failure to lackluster design or the blatant injection of cringe-worthy politics.
For an entire generation, Xbox dominated the industry in software sales and exclusives. Yet that success convinced Microsoft they could not be dethroned, that consumers would not abandon their vast libraries and accounts to jump to another platform. This attitude lead to the 2013 announcement of the Xbox One with a bevy of anti-consumer and obviously not thought out decisions that ultimately cost Microsoft an entire generation.
Sony’s launch of the PS5 oozes the same exact mentality. Say nothing of the rumored overheating issues getting a second leg with an image circulating of a display model overheating. Of course, it should be noted the unit wasn’t properly vented as it was in a display case, yet how many users are going to run into the same issue by putting it in a TV stand?
Doom and gloom have befallen Square Enix with their financial statements posting if one believes the hype from various outlets. The truth of the matter is far less bleak for the company but does demonstrate the company’s gaming division outside MMOs suffered a massive loss with the release and poor performance of The Avengers.
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