Exclusive for PS4, then exclusive for Epic Game Store and also Denuvo to "protect" sales.
Well, I see this as a complete success: Square Enix just protected the sales from the hungry wallets of their fans. Their fans wallet are now not starving, and so they should be happy. SE is a sensible company.
imho: It looks like that game making is currently the only thing the big industry allow him to, while he does aspire to be more involved in the movie industry rather the gaming one. Weird direction since videogame industry is way more bigger than the movie one.
I think it is a kind of recall to the classic arts, like when at a certain point in their career movie actors perform in live theater.
Ok, space Karen.
Sadly, Microsoft doesn't need to do anything to have you to upgrade to Windows 11: you just need to buy a new device in the mainstream market. Aside from building your rig from scratch, of course.
SteamDeck is a good example: Microsoft didn't do nothing to promote the handheld PC gaming industry, even if Valve shown that their free and licenseless OS proved to be the best one... most OEM deliver Window's only PC handheld, because they are afraid to lose the market segment of those who pirate PC games.
The long-awaited sequel will start as a paid early access game until it eventually transitions to the same free-to-play model as the original.
There are companies that can operate control by using the money they get from billion of customers, and other companies that prefer to use the money the take from billion of customers to teach citizens how unfair the governments are.
Those who are manipulated in favor of big corps are generally poorly educated individuals, so you can have huge number of that people, which translate in both social, economical and political power.
The point is not Valve, which me or you can respect and enjoy as company, the problem is that laws affect everyone. If the laws favor predatory companies, Valve has either adapt to be predator or being extinguished.
I don't think people shrugged off on Concord because poor quality such as bug or inconsistency. Concord was a fine Overwatch-wannabe that went for hard-sci realism (not as interesting as stylized/cartoon as TeamFortress2 and Overwatch). Pubg had realism, but it was the original trendsetter. CoD aside (which has its own historical fellowship) how many other multiplayer GaaS went successful with that sort of realism as Lawbreakes.
Also, blue water/red water problem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
In few years, you may find more useful your kidney rather an HD that can hold just 3~4 copies of the latest CoD
That's pcgamesn: sometime they don't even put the actual title of the game they are talking about... or even a game in the same genre. They go something like:
"This not Fortnite game, may look like Assassin Creed, but you must be in a Resident Evil to believe it: even Kratos from God of War would say no... just like that random NPC in Red Dead Redemption from the same publisher of the incoming Grand Theft Auto Six (or GTAVI-please notice me sempai Google-Seo)"
billions of saving for (expected) billions of customers: "best I can do is a buck"