Don’t waste money on an xbox controller. Get a Dual Sense or an 8bitDo

Corporate management types are not organically recruited from experienced labour, they are from the “brahmin” echelons of society. Not only do they not understand that not all man hours are different, they have no clue of what is going on since they are recruited because of their pedigree and not competence.

Call of Duty

For years I’ve been warning whoever would listen that XboxGP, much like any other content subscription service owned by a public company would inevitably lead to a massive consumer squeeze. Fortunately it happened before MS managed to metastasise into a monopoly in gaming too. Good riddance.

I’m sorry, I refuse to continue engaging with bad faith arguments.

Have a nice day.

It does shift review coverage, generally, toward the ones with the most advertising

but that doesn’t mean that Redfall and Suicide Squad still can’t happen and review poorly

Thank you for arguing in my favour. Both Redfall and Suicide Squad reviewed well above 50%. For people on Lemmy arguing about statistics it’s obvious the mean is shifted so anything around 75% is mediocre, however, to the average consumer, that is not the case. Furthermore, I mentioned Kane and Lynch because that game was the reason giant bomb exists and everyone nowadays knows big publishers strong-arm outlets.

I’m sure Kane and Lynch are audience favorites. No reason not to think only the best games get reviewed and thus, shifting the mean 25% in the favor of the companies that just so happen to be the ones paying for advertising. It’s more likely outlets, on average, only review good games, that sounds more reasonable.

Statistically, if more than half of a random sample of steam games are rated to be good, the standards for evaluation are shit.

And the people that were supposed to let us know if a game is good or not, the “professionals”, have a median score around ~75% according to open critic data, otherwise they wouldn’t have a job because sponsors would gfo.

We’re on our own shifting through a pile of de facto shovelware to find anything of worth nowadays.

It’s a problem not exclusive to games, mind you. Music, scientific publishing and other content for profit industries have the exact same issue: Vetting quality requires work so for profit institutions offload the vetting to the user.

Thid is great, from English speaking channels I only know AncientGameplays doing linux benchmark comparisons to Windows on gaming. *Spoilers: If you use AMD you’re not leaving performance on the table, if you’re team green… it’s a work in progress.

RT is currently still shit on Linux, but I don’t use it anyway.

Look at the leadership and you have the answer. These are ostensibly absolute imbeciles. They kept failing upwards and even with an infinite money cheat, they managed failure at making anything good.

This guy politiks

Well, that’s 50 studios that won’t ever see my money.

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So, every time a corpo does something shady, social media at large argues: “vote with your wallet”

Given Microsoft’s criminal and genocidal history I decide to boycott companies who associate with that behemoth, especially when they are validating a business model that fucks over other indies. It’s the perfect example of “fuck you I got mine”. I’m clearly voting with my wallet against this unconscionable practice, yet, this thread, on average, thinks that’s a bad thing. I think it paints the average user here on a very negative light, which is disappointing.

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Yes, you seem to revel in it which was my point exactly.

Ad hominem, you must feel so clever.

That’s just pointless negativity.

I apologise for overestimating your reading comprehension.

Microsoft is a huge company so unless it’s the gaming division doing the Gaza genocide then you’re engaging in an actual whataboutism that you dislike so much.

I hate to come to these terms because I don’t know you personally and I’m sure you’re othewise a wonderful chap but the sentence quoted above is profoundly idiotic at every level. Please don’t stoop to this level of stupidity, it’s beneath your intelligence I’d wager.

I’ll provide an example so you can see it too.

Microsoft Russia is a huge company country so unless it’s the gaming division Abramovic doing the Gaza Donbass genocide, then you’re putting sanctions on him is engaging in an actual whataboutism that you dislike so much.

pointless negativity

Negativity towards a genocide enabling monopolistic cheating criminal enterprise is never pointless, in fact, it’s more than warranted. Microsoft is indistinguishable from a criminal syndicate and will bribe, cheat and kill to facilitate its monopoly.

Jesus, the constant attempt at undermining murena by some users with falsehoods and misrepresentation is quite concerning here. Reminiscent of certain private OS devs having public mtdowns.