Makes sense. Every games nowadays want you to play them forever, so players obliged and buy fewer games. Karma.

Do people really trust Ubisoft to fairly portrait American Civil War? I think cancelling is the right choice.

Those are called drama YouTubers. Just block all of them, will be good for your mental health.

“The team is heads down,” Huckaby said. “We drew a line in the sand when we said 2026. I don’t know if we’re going to make it, I just know that we’re going to do every single thing possible to make it. And part of that is not taking time for the distraction of CitizenCon.”

That means they already know they are not going to make it. Otherwise why say this more than one year before?

During a Q&A session following Sony’s latest financial results, Tao said that despite the negativity surrounding Sony’s live service offerings thanks to the issues with Concord and Marathon, she still believes live service games are worthwhile because they’ve added a revenue stream that didn’t exist for the company five years ago.

so they learnt nothing…

Talking about lost feature, I feel like like less modern games like to give their players a comprehensive map.

It used to be that map is a basic feature in games that involve any kind of navigation but nowadays some games just…don’t?

It depends on the game. I still like Metal Gear Solid 1 & 2.

Already seeing backlash from the gatekeeping league community. LoL is losing out to newer games partly because of the unintuitive control scheme.

When even Street Fighter is innovating despite the FGC’s reluctance, League needs to evolve or will be slowly left behind.

Unfortunate, but considering that the PS4 is more than a decade old, I suppose supporting that platform must be a pain for the developers.

Also my guess is that new competitor from Kuro games is beating Genshin on the graphic front and Mihoyo wants to up their game.

Probably priority? They have a tight deadline and skipping cut scenes is not a priority feature.

I have also seen game where dev deliberately ignore call for adding a skip scene button because they want their players to read the story. You can disagree with it but maybe the dev really think their cut scene is worth watching. That doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t play games, its just that they have high pride in their work.

I know the above is a controversial take. But I have no problem watching cut scenes if that is the dev’s intention.

The replies here feel more like “list of game features that I do not like”

The MMO market is still big, just not as big as its used to. A MMO by a successful team has a much better chance than most games.

For more context, Bloomberg also reported on this:

Xbox Executives Were Blown Away by an Upcoming Game. Then They Canceled It.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-07-03/microsoft-s-xbox-cancels-blackbird-an-upcoming-game-that-impressed-executives

No paywall version: https://archive.ph/daYYd

But Blackbird’s cancellation was particularly shocking because it had blown away executives at Xbox just a few months ago. During the demonstration in March, Spencer was enjoying the game so much that Matt Booty, the head of Xbox Game Studios, had to pull the controller away so they could keep the meeting going, according to two people who were in the room.

This is a game that even Spencer was enjoying and then they just cancelled it. I have no word.

Right! That is why we need strong social protection just in case things don’t work out!!

Good for you for being respectful to your partner. Hope more people in the world are like you.

Oh sorry, sometimes when I hit post the website keeps loading and I am not sure if its completed or not. So I hit post again.

Using Firefox btw.

https://archive.ph/xv9cz

Archived version just in case anyone needs it

Yes this is really important and things will likely get worse France is still most likely to be on top of this, given their emphasis on tech independence

Sleeping early is really important for me…Don’t want to wake up the next day with headache

Also nightclubs are loud. Would prefer to stay with friends in a more private space

Thanks for sharing!