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I was like; "That's sad, I really enjoyed A Hat in Time."

Then I remembered that was Gears for Breakfast, not Toys for Bob. Always confuse those two.

There should be a A Hat in Time sequel though.

Looks like a false alarm. Seems the physical building was shut down and some people were let go but majority of employees are remote workers

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Would it not be a handy way out for Microsoft? They wouldn't have to saddle themselves with the cost of the merger and maybe halt the need to make all their games third party which would probably keep their console from being obsolete.

Multiplayer, fair enough. Still can play it solo. Just hope you can play solo offline like NMS, I don't want to meet anyone else.

But, GaaS model.... ugh... I thought any Subnautica 2 news would make me excited... how disappointing. Early days, but hearing anything that's GaaS immediately puts me off it. Will wait and see how they manage to fuk this up.

@Zero-Cool unfortunately not the best news...

They've since clarified or should i say back tracked. Single or co-op and no season passes or battle passes.

Playing co-op games solo is not the same as a single player campaign in my opinion. Especially if we're going to come across co-op teams in game.

It'll either be huge or we'll be talking about another studio biting the dust come Christmas.

For me, I'll happily replay rhe original. Old games on Ultra is no longer a fad for me, it's becoming the only way I want to play games. But what do I do when all these games become the old games?!

Oh holy jesus that gave me a fright, thank **** that was clarified. I can fully imagine the suits on the finance call going "you guys.... It's a GAAS game!!" And everyone cheering. Also, i don't mind the multiplayer as the community was screaming out for it. Personally, i will be going solo, very excited to hear it's based on a new alien world.

GaaS is like the scratch card of video game genres.

I do think there are a couple from the early days that did it right. Sea of Thieves and erm...give me a minute what was the other one? I'll get back on that 😆

Oh yeah, Apex Legends. Although I'll never forgive it for essentially killing of Titanfall 3.

AAA anonymous

Both and probably a bit more. It's very much a case of Ubisoft striking while the iron is cold. After AC Black Flag, people really wanted a full pirate game without all the trappings of the AC franchise, and S&B was eventually announced. Then there were a lot of stories of troubled development. Not to mention Sea of Thieves doing a lot of what S&B was supposed to be but without the AAA graphics. Then live service/GaaS really started taking off and it seemed like S&B was going to be pivoted into a GaaS game. But development issues kept taking so long that they missed the boat on that and GaaS has now become pretty toxic. Now it feels like they're just in a position where they just have to get the game out because it's a sunk cost (I'm not trying to make these boat puns, they're just incredibly apt). Now they're charging full price for a GaaS game despite Ubisoft shutting down a lot of their previous GaaS games.

I don't think anyone's really saying it's awful, but it's a game that at this point, nobody is excited for and it's lost a lot of faith and goodwill. Anyone who was looking forward to it at this point probably isn't any more. And it really doesn't help that Ubisoft is trying to claim it's worth €70 because even though it's a GaaS, it's a "AAAA" one apparantly.

There was a recent discussion here too about how the new Prince of Persia probably would have sold a lot better if it was a bit cheaper. Now it's looking like even though it was a really great game and one of the best things Ubisoft has done in years, it won't have made enough money and will be deemed a failure. I can easily see Skull & Bones going the same way even if it somehow has ended up being good.