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It's that time of the year again. Game Awards are streaming soon, what are your predictions? And what are your hopes?
 
My predictions: Microsoft shows off Hellblade 2, Redfall, and the Halo show. Nintendo shows Zelda BOTW 2. Sega shows off Sonic Foundations, and the Awards reveal something huge and insane.
My Hopes: Starfield is shown, Hellblade 2 is shown, BOTW 2, Elden Ring, really just big gaming annocuments.

One thing I don't understand is, what exactly is the point of a NFT in a video game? Especially in the case of Ubisoft games which tend to die down in popularity pretty quickly (most of them anyway). Would you be able to move the game assets between different Ubisoft games so that you can show it off to other people?

Source of story here - https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2021/12/08/ubisoft-launches-039playable039-nfts-in-its-video-games
NFTs are becoming more popular, so popular that they're not getting into video games. From what the article states, the NFTs will be like items you can get in game, and will have a serial number, so it's unique to you. It could be vehicles, weapons and other items depending on the game. And all of these can be sold and resold if wanted. The first game to feature these NFT options or "Digits" will be Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. 
Ubisoft's service will be called Ubisoft Quartz. 
What do you guys think of this? One part of me likes this idea, because it means we can sell our items if wanted, which is a nice option. But, on the other hand, this is Ubisoft and they will make a ton if this actually works as intended. It reminds me a lot of what Counter-Strike Global Offensive does with their weapons and loot box system. Because isn't it a big ecosystem of items you can buy with real money? Sounds similar to what Ubisoft is doing here. 
But yeah, it'll just be Ubisoft getting richer as usual. 

This is not a good thing for gamers at all, in my opinion. Well, for most gamers anyway. NFTS getting added to games will only result in companies focusing more on them and less on the actual game. The last thing we need is more content behind a paywall.

It was meant to happen eventually. I think good designers have their days coming up it seems. A lot of gaming companies looted them but now things would change hopefully. 

NFTs are just another form of cryptocurrency. It is a plague, that needs to die. Ubisoft had to delist the announcement on youtube it was getting so many dislikes. My faith in humanity is somewhat restored.
Meanwhile my reaction was to uninstall ghost recon breakpoint immediately.

Haven't had a chance to try the campaign as yet but the multiplayer has kept me entertained for the past few weeks. Still learning everything about Halo since this is my first one but I am enjoying it a lot. The only annoying thing is that it doesn't fully support the Series X Quick Resume feature (for multiplayer)

*Clap, Clap Clap*
This is how Sony fights against Xbox? Xbox has been giving away games for $10 basically. Xbox is winning when it comes to subscription services. They might not have that many exclusives right now, but when they put over twenty games in a single month it really makes the service look worthwhile.
I don't want Sony to get behind, I want Sony to succeeded, cause then I can get more games.
I've sitting here for five months on Game Pass, and already have played more AAA games this year then I have with PlayStation. Do you know what it is like to watch a console company you grew up with become less valuable than the competitor. I grew up with PS4, not with Xbox. But Xbox has been giving me bangs for my buck, Sony may have exclusives, but why should spend $70 for a game, when I can get 300+ for $10 a month? I would gladly buy a PS5, problem is, I am going to have to wait a couple of years for prices to go down. I can get a Series S for $300 bucks, get Game Pass and get over a hundred games a year. This is why I'm at the Xbox ecosystem, PlayStation is too pricy for me.
The fact that PS+ can't even provide a full next-gen exclusive game shows the problem with it. It's only last-gen, I've already played last gen, they're great games, but I have them on discs. The times are changing, Xbox is fighting not with exclusives, but with Game Pass.
Sorry for the long rant, I just have a lot to say about this current generation.

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Imagine playing a Final Fantasy game where you didn't play the story at all and were thrown straight into the endgame content? That would be ridiculous, right?
 
Well, that's exactly what PS+ subscribers and Epic Games users can expect when they are offered Godfall this December. A version of an action RPG with the story missions completely removed in what is called "The Challenge Edition" with only the optional endgame content left behind. More details from PushSquare.
 
I was looking forward to playing this, and I'm very disappointed, but more importantly very concerned about this. A lot of games have thier DLC expansions and deluxe editions and so on that offer more content than the base game. That means that game companies can still earn some revenue from the games offered by these subscriptions, and I don't grudge that. Whether you agree with that or not, the fact is they are what they are. It's fair enough I feel that services like PS+ only ever offer the base game, but creating a version with a very deceptive title that's only a portion of the base game for PS+ users set's a bad precedent. Is what we are supposed expect from PS+ and other similar services from now on? Paying to play partial games, because you DO pay for PS+ titles, don't be deluded. So it's obvious what Gearbox are doing, they're offering people a taste in the hope people will then purchase the full game. Well, that isn't a new thing, once upon a time they were called DEMO'S! And they were free! 
 
This is not what services like PS+ were supposed to offer and I sadly feel this is the start of a detrimental change to these services. What do you guys think about this?

Oh, one more thing, may as well plug the threads pinned to the Video Game Deals sub-forum that are kept up to date on the latest offers on Xbox Live Games with Gold, PlayStation Plus and Free Games with Epic. 

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Didn't see these deals posted anywhere yet, and since this deals will probably last into the weekend I figured I'd share them here. Here are the deals I found so far, feel free to add any others you may find. 
(Gamestop) 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate  for $24.99 - https://www.gamestop.com/gift-cards/digital-subscriptions/products/xbox-game-pass-3-month-ultimate-membership/11095751.html 
3 months of Game Pass for PC for $1 each month (must not have Game Pass at time of purchase, otherwise won't count, also may be for new subscribers only) -  https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/pc-games/ 
3 months of Game Pass for PC for $19.99 - https://www.amazon.com/Xbox-Game-Pass-PC-Membership/dp/B08KJW9BK7
Any other Game pass deals to share? 
 
 
 

I've merged the thread you start with this pre-existing one as the issues you brought up have been discuss here already.
 

Just played their stranger things game. Most of the games on their catalog are average. I suppose they want to keep it as a branded store for the tv shows or movies to host their games. 

Seriously, I have already had enough of such games which was why I had to drop it off without thinking twice. 

I don't see it taking off to be honest. but you never know what market thinks. even stadia is alive despite we saying it wont last 1 year. 

Control, xbox one s

Horizon: Forbidden West. Horizon: Zero Dawn is one of my very favourite games, so there was no way I couldn't be exited for a follow up.

CoolMathGames were a major thing for most people during the quarantine of coronavirus. One of my favorite of it was Bob the Robber. You have played it I guess? 

Wasn't the gameplay, it was all the lootboxes, the ""a sense of pride and accomplishment," nonsense, and the amount of money they tried to milk out of me over Darth Vader.

I've only beaten around 23 games, keep in mind most games I play are in CoolMathGames, or on Game Pass, I don't that many AAA games, mainly just indies.