I still get that falling feeling in my stomach when I jump off the tallest building that I can climb when playing any given Spider-Man game. Which means I do it a lot BECAUSE IT'S THE ONLY WAY I CAN STILL FEEL.
On a broad scale, I don't think there is such a thing as apolitical entertainment. Almost all forms of escapism and entertainment are centered around a narrative and most of those narratives exist around some sort of conflict. Generally in those conflicts, you have two conflicting ideologies. Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, that is by nature 'political'. It's the same shit that drives me crazy when people complain about Star Wars getting too 'political'. Star Wars has always been an anti-imperialism narrative, originally inspired by the Vietnam war as admitted by Lucas himself.
What seems to bother a lot of people isn't something being inherently political, but something being 'political' in support of something they don't like. Fancy that.
I don't know if I'm bothered by it, but I'm not convinced MS can actually get these huge Netflix numbers out of Game Pass, that it seems like they are going for.
Most people only buy 1-2 AAA games a year, are you going to get these people to sign up to pay $15 dollars each month? I'm not sure about that.
But I also think that MS' plan is to get as many people inside the door now as possible and then raise the price once they are fully in the ecosystem. If they want this to be there main stream of revenue, then I can't see how that's possible with all they are investing at the current price. They would probably need at least 50 millions subscribers, considering how hard it has been for Netflix to be profitable.
I don't know if I'm bothered by it, but I'm not convinced MS can actually get these huge Netflix numbers out of Game Pass, that it seems like they are going for.
Most people only buy 1-2 AAA games a year, are you going to get these people to sign up to pay $15 dollars each month? I'm not sure about that.
But I also think that MS' plan is to get as many people inside the door now as possible and then raise the price once they are fully in the ecosystem. If they want this to be there main stream of revenue, then I can't see how that's possible with all they are investing at the current price. They would probably need at least 50 millions subscribers, considering how hard it has been for Netflix to be profitable.
I am confused as to why you made exactly the same post as the guy on page 1.
I'm kidding, of course. About the second part. I am vaccinated. I'm gonna keep wearing a mask, though. I haven't had so much as the sniffles in a year, dude. It's amazing.
@palemamba: There's no content in your post, dude. If you're going to post a rhetorical question and try to sales pitch us, you could at least include a brief summation of what you're pitching in the post, but you didn't even do that. It's not ignorance, it's that no one is going to click your link without any context. You basically fucked this up from the jump.
It's pretty weird that you're railing on bias and loyalty while simultaneously coming off very much as a pro-MS, anti-Sony vibe by calling anyone who disagrees with you a Sony fanboy. Tonally, you're all over the place. But, I mean, whatever. You do you, dude.
That aside, yeah, Microsoft paid cold hard cash for a big publishing studio. They wouldn't do that if they weren't confident they could recoup that with exclusivity. It's crazy how personally people are taking this as Bethesda 'selling out'.
I watched a lot of Bleach. I watched a lot of Bleach. After the first couple seasons it was primarily so I could complain with a friend about how terrible the pacing was.
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