First Halo outlast Killzone, now this with Forza. I don’t know how many games from Xbox have closed, but PS has plenty.
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He so ready to be part of Xbox.
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It’s been 6 years though right? And they have a new GT that’s on both PS4/5 which is supposed to replace it. I wish that games could stick around forever, but this seems smart. Focus the attention/resources on the new game.
I remember reading online was required for a lot of the functionality in this game, so hopefully that isn’t true.
Not an issue if they update the single player modes to function decently without an online connection.
Aren’t Forza 6 and 7 still around?
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Idk, can you still buy them or are they delisted? Do the servers work? I have no idea.
Part of me wonders if he’s vying for a bigger leadership role post merger. He knows the inner works of both Xbox and ABK, but I can’t help but think he could have been part of the culture issues. Or at least maybe he didn’t do anything about it, which isn’t any better.
Delisted, servers still online
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Indeed. Sure it’s always bad when servers get taken down but 6 years of support seems reasonable to me. I just don’t think it’s the big “bad Sony gotcha” some people seem to think it is.
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It’s because the game has most of its features always online. Think they should change that before taking it offline
They should work. Sometimes FM2 or the other 360 titles even work.
The last ones Turn 10 shut down were the servers for FH1 and FH2 this August.
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But it’s been 6 years, idk, not going to argue it. I just think it’s reasonable. Have a good one!
Fair enough. Just always seemed like a no brainer for MS to try to get this game seeing as how fondly it’s looked at by xbox gamers who’ve been with the brand since the beginning and the industry at large. It was the first Bioware game I ever played and single handedly got me into western rpgs to begin with. Had better story and characters than the disappointing prequels and was the best Star Wars game of the time IMO. I was extremely annoyed ( to put it lightly ) when it was announced as a PS5 exclusive and wondered how Xbox could “fuck up” so much at let that one slip past it.
Of course once the info started coming out it made more sense why they passed on it to begin with.
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He has like 5k employees under him. He’d have to see himself as a Phil Spencer successor if he’s vying for a bigger leadership role.
I can still play Call of Duty 2 online, same goes for PDZ, Gears 1 and numerous others
This is even worse because the game might as well be an online only game in terms of it’s content
Have some standards
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Ok.
With how large Xbox is getting there will be positions to fill. The most obvious one is who fills Bobby’s shoes in overseeing all of ABK day to day?
Phil and Sarah need to focus on what comes next after ABK.
Will there be a CEO of ABK? Or will simply the heads of Activision, Blizzard and King report to Phil directly? 