Archaeokaiser

I don’t mind the monetization stuff, I play a lot of CAPCOM games, but it’s really nice to hear a publisher forgoing it and doing so with disdain. I’m personally really hoping they’ve nailed this game.

I mean, it’s all they have!

They HAD a rather broad reach when they created unquestionably better consoles with exclusive titles people were really excited about playing. Then they got greedy. Tried the “we are all you need” approach. And they “lost” because of it.

Now? Their reach is missing fingers. Every title they release depends entirely on another platform’s release schedule and marketing. Nintendo and Sony are happy to catch massive sales off XBOX’s games, but you’d be crazy to think they’d want them to sell as well as their own in-house titles.

Even the PC landscape is tough because XBOX can’t influence release dates and the like for titles produced by other publishers and developers when those same companies don’t even prioritize releasing their games on the XBOX.

They aren’t driving their own ship anymore. And that’s gonna be a MASSIVE adjustment for them that they’re currently pretending like they aren’t worried about but are in fact laying in bed at night staring at the ceiling, hoping the solution comes floating down from the ether.

The “coordinated campaign” was that the studio heads never actually gave the developers a true idea of what it is they were supposed to make then went ahead and released the guideless results generated by a clueless yet blameless development team. The CEO’s take is as baseless as a weeble wobble.