There's not really any excuse for a Microsoft-owned game to not be Xbox Play Anywhere. If they're going to make it exclusive, we damn well better get the benefits that are supposed to come with the platform.
Sometimes I think about posting pictures of our cats in a cat subreddit, but that's too much for me.
Literally just bought an all-in-one copier/scanner/color laser printer for $300 on the dot the other day from Brother directly, so no, it seems like there are plenty of reasonably-priced laser printers. I'll take that over $30 every time I want to print something because the ink cart dried up.
I wouldn't say it's inherently cheating, like there are plenty of use cases where it's completely non-problematic (like if I wanted to play a non-crossplay game with my homie on Xbox but I prefer M&KB), but in the case of competitive titles with a low time to kill (like R6) it's hugely unfair.
In this case, 343 management (since replaced) used 18-month contractors to perform the engine overhaul and build the game across the several years it was in development in order to save a buck, which in turn meant there were countless holes in engine knowledge and the engine was spaghetti code. That resulted in unfinished tools for months after launch and slow game development as a result, as well as major desync issues where you could be in an entirely different area on your screen than you were according to the server. The monetization and FOMO was also off the rails, with absurdly difficult and annoying weekly challenges that were necessary to grind the battlepass and unlock anything for free. Basic color sliders were taken away in favor of "armor coatings," and as such, to date I still cannot recreate my Halo Reach Spartan even though I have all the armor pieces necessary thanks to the Season 1 battlepass (which is the only battlepass I own, since I bought it during the honeymoon period and it doesn't contain any credits to buy the next battlepass). They did successfully commit to having battlepasses that don't expire, but only if you paid for it, otherwise it still expires and this was only mentioned for the first time like a week before Season 2.
The list kinda goes on and on, but the tl;dr is that devs and players alike both got hyper-fucked by Bonnie Ross.
Well yeah, people on gaming social media have been trashing Ubisoft games since like Far Cry 4 nearly a decade ago. Something something same game something something radio towers, etc. If reddit's opinion had been that of the majority of the gaming community, Ubisoft would've gone out of business years ago.
Personally, I was buying Ubisoft games up until about a year ago because they were fun, but a string of games with terrible gimmicks (like turning Ghost Recon into a looter shooter and dumbing down character abilities in Watch Dogs in order to supplement a "play as anyone" ability nobody really asked for) along with the continued lack of action regarding the sexual harassment problems has ended that.
Seems like I'm not the only one, considering Ubisoft has been reporting disappointing sales.
Origins was the best in recent memory by far. Great revenge story that added some cool lore to the Assassin faction that the rest of the franchise stems from.
Personally, for the same reason that I get annoyed when streets get renamed. This community isn't named the way it is to support hate and the vast majority of its users disagree with hateful viewpoints, it's named like this so people can find the community of PC enthusiasts that they're looking for. This is what it was on reddit, thus it's the same here.
To be blunt, if people don't like the name, the best solution is to stop posting content here and instead post in an alternative community with a name they find more suitable. Nobody's here for the name, they're here for the content and the people and they'll migrate if those do. Just like reddit's recent exodus.
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