@DeekeTweak Huge merger causes some confusion. How is this different than any other huge merger?
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Lee Fowler
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Absolutely must-read/must-watch interview with former Bethesda exec Pete Hines.
The $7.5bn Microsoft buyout caused friction behind the scenes due to mixed messaging on exclusivity.
Hines is a very straightforward kind of guy, so this was an issue.
vimeo.com/1180855735/5cf…
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@iamrobtv If you want 3 games in 1 you should be prepared to pay the price for 3 games. That's all I'll say.
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@LeeFowlerCU Did you know that it's been 25 years since Halo 1 released and the bare minimum for what content an FPS game should have available at launch has changed?
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Halo Infinite as it stands is a great Halo game and had it launched that way we would be having much different conversations about Halo rn
It's so frustrating that Xbox released and then left the game in Beta for pretty much 2 years and then have the audacity to act as if the game's failures were due to disinterest in the franchise.
No you just released a mediocre product initially and people moved on. By the time the game was even a semblance of a complete product it was too late
Destin@DestinLegarie
Halo Infinite was great imo. But if that still wasn't "enough" to warrant story follow ups and a continuation for Infinite vs. a Halo 1 remake I'm worried about the future of the franchise. I have ~456 hours in Infinite. I love the game. I hope Halo Studios can figure it out.
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@CptDuDuBronze @iamrobtv You sound like an expert programmer. Maybe they should just hire you and then you too can be underpaid for your efforts!
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One that works at launch and doesn't take 4-6 years to fix primary features like finding, connecting, and staying connected to matches with STABILITY. A complete campaign is not a tech demo someone spent too long on. 🙄 each patch shouldnt break something else.
IE we need a team that is capable of delivering proper working code is the only way we get there. I mean were still playing the same gametype and maps 4+ time in a row 4 years deep?
That's a BASIC programming problem that any low-level engineer should be able to figure out. 🤔 They have issues fixing programming 101 level problems. This proves incompetence. Thus I will no longer give them money as they dont deserve it.
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Take the monothread pill 💊
Nick@nickbaumann_
So much coding agent design is built on the assumption that breaching context windows and compacting context yields progressively worse results (/newtask, many threads, etc) When you drop this assumption, the product direction it opens up is very exciting :)
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@Grizzlymoose92 @iamrobtv Excellent! 3 responses and 3 different answers as to what a "complete" game is!
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@LeeFowlerCU @iamrobtv A complete halo game is one that launches with campaign co-op, forge, 15+ multiplayer maps, custom browser, and a progression system that is engaging. Something all the original games had.
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@PTurn_219 @iamrobtv How much are you willing to pay for a Single Player game + a Multiplayer Game + UGC Editor? Serious question.
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@LeeFowlerCU @iamrobtv Release with forge and more than 5 social modes along with ranked arena, slayer, snipers and doubles. It isn’t rocket science, they released with ranked arena, quick play and bot bootcamp…and btb was a month later, broken, taken out for 2 weeks then came back
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@iamrobtv In fact, to this day plenty of games launch without a UGC system and people don't consider them incomplete!
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@iamrobtv Did you know that Halo: CE launched without forge and people loved it? Myself included. I paid full price for an "incomplete" game!
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@chrono32123 @iamrobtv Because people refuse to pay for what games are worth nowadays
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@jimcramer Is that not what we got over the past couple of weeks?
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You would think you could get some sort of short-covering rally on these software stocks
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Got on Halo 5 for a game yesterday and was rewarded with instant dopamine
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I want to control my agents from my phone. I'm sure you do too.
What workflows do you want? Do you have one that works now? Tell me all about it.
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This year, Microsoft suddenly decided to go hard on prioritizing user feedback on Windows 11 and Xbox.
This comes after a years of pretty visible neglect.
Why now?
I don't think Microsoft randomly chose to "be nice" without a big reason ...
windowscentral.com/microsoft/wind… 📉
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Can't help but feel like they realised AI / Sam Altman is a gigantic scam with a really hard cap on its real world applications vs. cost.
Strong pivot to bread and butter, which were suffering hard under the gigantic OpenAI disaster.
Brad Sams@bdsams
In the past 6 weeks we have seen a rather strong shift for both Xbox and Windows implementing requested features after years of ignoring them. This is great but…what changed for both of this massive orgs to suddenly start listening?
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@mprey Tell that to the enterprises that are shoving $ down Ants throat
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Anthropic: shipping new features every single day. God model internally ripping the flywheel faster and faster
OAI: half our team is taking a leave and we bought a podcast. Our CEO would shove you in front of traffic to advance his goals
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