insert Uno meme

microsoft: build your devs from the ground up or draw 25

microsoft: What about AI? Ha Ha!

While you are absolutely correct, I can’t help but feel like there is some percentage of blame due to the naming of their consoles. It’s already confirmed that Microsoft put a lot of resources solely on what to name the second Xbox. If there was an Xbox 2 out at the same time a Playstation 3 was out, no doubt clueless parents would flock to the newer sounding console. Xbox 360 was fine, and we can see how incredibly successful that console was.

Fast-forward to Xbox One and things start to get a little shaky. Then you have Xbox One X. And then you have Xbox Series X. I can promise you parents who don’t have a clue are, at the same time, not patient enough to hear a 10 second explanation on what the names mean. Or they just go with Playstation because it’s just easier.

Again, not saying the naming was the reason, but I genuinely believe it played a role to their holiday sales.

Hopefully COD destroys itself by that time. Activision has monetized the ever living fuck out of that game for years now, and in the past three years its only increased exponentially. COD needs to die, and a new FPS needs to take over.

Sad to see this one so far down. Those guys at /r/EldenRing are incredible, always very helpful, and I’ve never seen an argument break out in the comments a single time. Everyone is just very cool and happy to discuss, learn, teach and help everyone else.

I came here to say this. The city was not only completely corrupted my multiple gang factions, but then you have the “police” that pickup civilian vehicles to yeet them 2 miles down the highway to smash into 13 other cars. Just to kill one person.

You sound an awful lot like the people who actually don’t know anything about online gaming. Sorry to break it to you, but every popular online game has toxicity to some degree. I think that should have been glaringly obvious by the fact of this threads existence, and how they are talking about Roblox, of all games, being bad for children.

If you let your child play any game that has online multiplayer, they are very suspect to any or many forms of toxicity. Fortnite, Apex, Warzone, Battlefield, Minecraft, Roblox, Rocket League, everything.

Of course there are specific titles that are known for having a great community with very little toxicity, but it does not negate the Human Factor. Anyone can get on to any game at any time and decide to be a raging racist, sexual harassing, sexist incel. I’ve played fortnite for years. I’d venture to guess Roblox is in a far worse state than Fortnite is in, in regards to being bad for your children.

That was actually my Destiny-Realization moment after I finished the Osiris DLC when they introduced him. The levels and story just completely flatlined for me. A few friends still played the game and were very lore heavy, and convinced me to come back. Oh my god was the Lightfall Story one of the worst fucking things I’ve ever experienced. Not only were the Neptune characters the most cookie-cutter basic personalities ever, they were insanely cringey. And yes, Osiris was suddenly some cliche old-man being grumpy and speaking absolute nonsense. What the fuck happened to you, Bungie? MTX??