@zombiepie: I can correlate this. I fell into my own personal downward schadenfreude spiral of exploring the Amiico and its fanbase late last year, and ended up reading the entire Twitter history of a few people out of sheer bewilderment. A couple highlights were (and I'm paraphrasing from memory) "Vince McMahon did nothing wrong," "my kids don't want to see me anymore", and my personal favorite "it's Christmas does anyone know of a restaurant that's open where I can get a turkey dinner?" It's sad that these people were bilked out of their milk money, for sure, but these people are basically grade-schoolers at a funfair - that money was getting bilked one way or another. Honestly I feel way better about it going towards Tallarico and his antics vs Mitch McConnell and his.
@bigsocrates: Look, I'm clearly in the Bargaining stage. Sadly/Luckily, I'm not a hedge fund manager and there's no bargaining to be had here, so it looks like Depression is right around the corner.
@ben_h: According to a story Grubb broke it performed below expectations. What those expectations were, who knows.
I was just trying to say that I heard Hi-Fi Rush didn't make the money it was expected to make. But to be clear, I don't really know how Microsoft measures success. This was just a small, passing statement in a larger conversation. It wasn't meant to make people worry about HFR. https://t.co/kFHGWbp0hA
If MS has can't keep Tango a relatively small studio that produces critical darlings but not necessarily hits, it kinda makes you worried about Double Fine & Ninja Theory etc, especially as Game Pass was talked as a remedy for stuff like this.
I'm not 'kinda' worried about Double Fine. I'm immensely worried.
Like... what the fuck is even happening? Am I not buying enough games? Am I not playing enough of the games I buy? Should I have spent a few bucks on loot-boxes last night instead of playing Dragon Age Inquisition? Surely there are some stakeholders out there who are like "Yo, you spent all that money, my money, to acquire these studios, and now you're going door to door, excising them like that internet meme? What the fuck did I even pay for"
I played through the entirety of 2006 Prey in a weekend and don't remember a single thing about it except that the Blue Oyster Cult song Don't Fear the Reaper is in it. I didn't even remember the context the song was played in until I rewatched a video of the opening.
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