Mousey

🎨Visual Designer ⚔️VR enthusiast 🎮Destiny 2/Fortnite Gaymer ♋Pagan 🏳️‍⚧️LGBTQIA+

[Mousey @DataWitchVR]

Sony has forgotten that to be on top they need to actually make games worth playing. On top of D2's discontinuing I've been severely underwhelmed by the PS5 era catalog. The only reason I'm holding on to my PS5 is to play GTA 6, once that's on PC ill likely move away entirely.

[Sylvain 🧡❤️‍🔥 @SylvainTrinel]

You asked for it, here are more details about Bungie:

After speaking with my sources, including some at PlayStation, what stands out is mainly internal resistance/strong pushback.

Many people at PlayStation don’t understand the decision made at the top to discontinue D2. 🧵🧵

[Mousey @DataWitchVR]

@winx_media A new series is going to mean brand new assets and rigs being produced so hopefully we get something fresh that improves on the prior designs

[Mousey @DataWitchVR]

@MarathonDevTeam Hopefully you guys (specifically management) can learn that FOMO and grindyness is not a winning strategy for player retention. D2 is thriving without FOMO while across the hall Marathon ramps it up

[MaepleTea 🐷👑 @MaepleTea]

"Oh they are SO BUSTED."
#backrooms #phineasandferb

[thomasmahler @thomasmahler]

It’s heartbreaking to see what’s happening at Xbox right now.

A lot of great people are being affected, and I don’t want to minimize that. But if we’re being honest, this has felt like a long time coming and I’m not sure this is the end of it. It may just be the beginning of a much larger reset across the industry.

In the long run, I actually think that reset could be good for games and good for gamers.

Xbox has struggled for a long time to identify, empower, and protect the key creative people and teams who could have kept the brand at the top.

Even when we were making Ori with Xbox, it was clear that the main focus was still Halo, Gears, and Forza - even though gamer excitement around Halo and Gears had already cooled heavily after Bungie and Epic moved on from those franchises.

The newer installments simply didn’t reproduce the same cultural impact those series once had.

Meanwhile, Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps became two of the most critically acclaimed Xbox-published games after the 360 era. I always secretly hoped that Microsoft would see the value in what we delivered, that they'd selfishly turn Ori into their Mickey Mouse or a Mario'esque mascot.

I emailed Phil plenty of times making my argument that Xbox should have their eyes on delivering magical experiences for kids and families as well, like Disney and Nintendo always have.

Ori and Moon could've been the start of something new, but the powers to be were probably too focused on the past for that to happen.

We’re still incredibly proud of what we delivered during our Ori era. Our partnership with Xbox produced two games that many players still see as shining stars in the Xbox catalogue.

Microsoft still owns an absolutely insane catalogue of franchises. The potential is still enormous.

The problem is and has always been that great games are not made by IP. They’re made by people. People who have passion and love for this medium, that understand what gamers truly want.

If I were in charge of Xbox right now, I’d also radically slim down, refocus and try to bring back the passion for gaming that clearly existed in the Xbox halls during the 360 era.

Xbox should be one of the strongest publishers in the world. With the brands Microsoft owns, that should honestly be fairly straightforward.

But nostalgia alone is not enough. Nostalgia can get people to look into your direction, but after that, you still have to deliver the goods. You still have to make products that get players genuinely excited. Products that make gamers literally salivate.

And to do that, Xbox has to bet on the right people.

They need to find the Miyamotos, Tezukas, Sakurais, etc. within their own ecosystem - the people who actually speak the same language gamers do - and then support them, protect them, and trust them.

Bet on those people - Not just IP. We've clearly seen now what happens when you own all the best IP in the world, but don't have the right people in charge to actually service those titles.

The formula is really not that complicated:

Ship better games than your competition.

That’s it.

If you consistently do that, you win. And given the scale that Xbox is operating at, they could win HUGE.

Of course, pulling off a full reset inside a giant corporation is brutally difficult. But we’ve seen it done before. Apple in 97 was nearly dead and Steve Jobs turned it around by simplifying the company, focusing on beloved brands and shipping products people couldn’t wait to get their hands on.

The playbook is already written out for you.

From the outside, to people like me, it still looks like Xbox is sitting on an absolute goldmine.

They just need to put the right people in charge of mining that gold.

[Mousey @DataWitchVR]

@Ryan_Gilliam15 Load bearing Lodi

[Paul Tassi @PaulTassi]

see, sometimes there are positive steam chart stories. And 3-4x that for console

[Mousey @DataWitchVR]

@hubrisdash9 @25YearsAgoLive 2014?? It’s 2001 dude

[The Code Lyoko Memelord @LyokoMemelord]

So the interview happened and folks, I got some awesome news...

...CODE LYOKO IS RETURNING!

Tania Palumbo and Thomas Romain, the co-creators of the show, are ALSO returning!

Even the OG French voice actors are returning too!

It's still in the early stages, but we're back!

[OakhamSam @OakhamSam]

Holy shit

[Mousey @DataWitchVR]

@DirtyEffinHippy @Aztecross Yeah it was literally said in the infamous over delivery GDC talk that they let employees see statistics about performance of things. Presumably that applies to some of the revenue stats as well.

[Fuego @BlazingFuego999]

It’s like the writers are talking to us the player about Destiny 2 getting shut down. #WeNeedDestiny3 #WeWantDestiny3

“We're here for a reason, and it's not to write a eulogy for the Earth? It's not to watch it all turn into dust.”

“Every apocalypse has a day after”
~Lodi

[Mousey @DataWitchVR]

@Don_Mosquito @Sphynxian Destiny universe is so vast and the lore entries are always written subjectively so I'm sure they could make just about anything it work and still be mostly canon.

[Mousey @DataWitchVR]

@NuCaloric My cope would be that Bungie buys it from netease and depreciates it but uses the technical framework of it to make a destiny spinoff game that's canon and more conventionally destiny in gameplay format. Could be a Destiny 2.5 of sorts and bring the franchise to new platforms

[Mousey @DataWitchVR]

@LukeCB14 That would be so impressive given how all prior screens seemed to be made of 2D lines and minimalist graphics. Going from that to a 3D look would be a flex.

[MIDA Sponsored Kit @MidaSponsordKit]

u have to transition to be a runnah. its canon

[Durandal's Gay Lover @Durandalsgaylvr]

Kane Parsons reported to be coming to marathon season 2, making him the youngest runner ever.

"I'm a shell now."

(source: durandal)

[f4mi ‼️ @f4micom]

they might actually be cooking with this holy shit

[dontrezme @dontrezme]

Should I make more of these (human-gen) posters to rally the troops (especially gamers outside/away from Destiny 2)?

#Destiny2 #MonumentOfTriumph #WeWantDestiny3