Soldato
I am gonna bet money on it now. The WoW subscription model will be put under the Gamepass, HUGE boost in numbers to the gamepass model as well as WoW players seeing a tiny price increase but a huge game library added.
It's kind of obnoxious at this stage. Surely we're getting close to antitrust territory now.
It's a big number for sure but it's less then 5% of Microsoft's total market cap.$70 billion deal too.
Mental.
It's a big number for sure but it's less then 5% of Microsoft's total market cap.
It's not a done deal, there will be a lot of legal hurdles around anti trust and competition laws to overcome before this becomes a reality.
As for WoW coming to console, never. Wouldn't be possible on a controller imo though I wouldn't be against the idea.
USA has crazy inflation though so that cash would get eaten fast**** $68bn in cash is mental.
Gamepass is going to be quite some platform soon in terms of the games on it. When you consider the IPs of MS, Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda and some EA games and soon some Ubisoft titles. Gamepass is going to be a no brainer in terms of the games on it. Theres going to be so many day one games for barely any cost at all
Guess I'll pick up a Switch for unique experiences soon. The modern landscape is turning to ****.
Best outcome IMO, is the death of one more launcher - get all those games on Steam again.
You really think they are going to massively increase the content and keep the price the same ?
Hahahahahahajhaha
ahahahahahahahhaba
These games wil never be on steam bro, gamepass only
I do suffer from this sometimes too, almost like a phantom program is eating up your space.Yes I am; it still uses the Microsoft Store infrastructure, so sometimes installs/downloads get stuck as before and need to be restarted or don't want to install for god knows what reason; it also still doesn't handle big queues of games set to download overnight/parallel installs/parallel install and uninstalls that well, as it still seems to be essentially 'single target focused/single task bound' for example; but otherwise it works exactly as it says on the tin; games install in your chosen folder as normal game installs. Much preferable to me to the whole hidden/locked partitions and folders used previously; which could cause major issues with locked partitions/space etc if something went wrong or the Microsoft store registry etc messed up. It's a major step towards removing one of the major obstacles I had towards using Gamepass; and the beta has delivered in that regards. Yes, they still need to improve thier download/install system, but major step forwards. It's no steam in how well it works, and download speed etc, but it really is a big improvement.
And yes, this means we could see new RTS; given MS only just published Age of Empires 4; they now have the IP, knowledge, and teams to even lift the Warcraft or Starcraft franchise directly away from Blizzard if they feel they have another internal team that could do it greater justice; rather than the half ****ed cheap remaster/port thing that Warcraft 3 Reforged turned out to be.
Also means down the line they could also potentially take another shot at Movie or TV shows based on these franchises; as per the upcoming Fallout/Halo shows; one thing Blizzard always did was exceptional CGI (or thier partners).
No, I personally expect them to either raise the price or possibly do a two tier price system, similar to EA Basic and EA Pro. However you're missing my point, my point is that there are many deals around at the moment where you can get 3 years of gamepass for what works out as £1 a month, so if people have any braincells they will sign up for those deals now and thereby protect themselves against any raises for the next X years.