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Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Apologizes For Redfall's Disastrous Launch | MMORPG.com
Yesterday on the Kinda Funny channel, Xbox head Phil Spencer publicly addressed the launch of Arkane Austin's multiplayer vampire shooter, Redfall. Spencer in the interview apologized to fans and claimed full responsibility for the state of the launch.
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Honestly, I think no matter how 'good' Starfield ends up being, someone will find something to complain about. Cyberpunk 2077 is a prime example. The game did deserve a large amount of criticism it first got, but I dont think people can still admit that its a GREAT deal better now than it was before. I guess they'll probably be more lenient on Bethesda games though since players always end up 'fixing' their games for them in the end.
This is the internet, its cool to be negative.
"I kind of revist our process. I think back to the announcement of 60 frames per second, and then we weren't shipping 60 frames per second."
So they thought the game would do 60 when it did not, how could that be, we are not talking about PC's here, calling that out as a lie.
"There are quality issues, and we're working on those, but a fundamental piece of feedback I get is that the game isn't realizing the creative vision that it had for its players. That doesn't feel like a, 'hey, just delay it', that feels like the game had a goal to do one thing and when players are actually playing, they're not feeling that."
What he is effectively saying here is we don't think a short delay is going to be enough to fix these problems but we launched it anyway. Disgraceful.
They admitted they left the studio to its own thing and did not send over devs to help them integrate into the MS ecosystem. Not sure why this would happen. Seems like a big part of a studio making a first party game for them.
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"ahahaha we knew it was junk but we shipped it anyway, and at full price, and theres no wide ranging refund system in place, all I have to do is give you sad eyes, say sorry and that lessons will be learned and you sheep will pony up for the next pile of crap we push out"
I don't think that's it at all. MS keep saying, don't judge us on console sales, don't judge us on anything but our services. MS wants Gamepass to be their real win, that's their game services. IMO Redfall was a panic release to keep GP going strong. It was a rough 2022 for releases. 2023 needs to be strong to keep GP growing the way MS wants it. If very few people bought the game at $70 and instead subbed GP to play Redfall. They would have been over the moon.
My thoughts. MS is trying to break the norm of gaming. MS practices with how they make money on games, has turned out to be some of the most fair practices for gamers as well. IMO I'm sick of how Sony makes money on games. MS is missing just one thing content. My hopes is MS wins at what they are doing, just so Sony has a company to compete with, so they need to fight over who gets our money. IMO, that's the biggest win, every gamer could have.
Dude, I can appreciate your hopes and ideals but they released a trash game that they knew was completely trash and in dire need of months more work. If they are missing content they can use some of their billions to set up more studios.
How would you feel if you went to a restaurant and someone took a literal dump on your plate but the service was excellent?
I think Arkane should stick to creating those single player experiences. Their expertise does not seem to have translated well to GaaS, and that's okay. We don't really need more of those anyways.
Was the bot being witty?
Just goes to show that this is just about studio's public image, more than about anything else.
It is unrelated, true. I was just showing how different reaction of people are to the "good company"(Phil Spencer led Xbox) vs the "big bad company"(AB, EA etc). I don't like this inconsistency.
Good to see someone else call out this brainless horseshit.
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