Earlier today, Twitch put out a tweet advertising for the upcoming [email protected] showcase they're running with Microsoft, and then soon after deleted it. Why?
well, in the image in the tweet:
Who's that up there in the right corner?
Either that's a BIG goofup or Hades is coming to Xbox
Hades on Xbox? SuperGiant Games returning to Xbox??? oh please please please please.....
EDIT: added quoted post cause TOTP.
@Undead Scottsman nope, its PC and Switch only at the moment. SuperGiant haven't released a game on Xbox since Bastion(and its anniversary HD remaster).
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Re: Xbox Live to Xbox network rebranding, remember when they randomly decided to try and double the cost of Xbox Live? I bet this is them still trying to do that but on a smarter, slower rollout.
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Earlier today, Twitch put out a tweet advertising for the upcoming [email protected] showcase they're running with Microsoft, and then soon after deleted it. Why?
well, in the image in the tweet:
Who's that up there in the right corner?
Either that's a BIG goofup or Hades is coming to Xbox
Hades on Xbox? SuperGiant Games returning to Xbox??? oh please please please please.....
EDIT: added quoted post cause TOTP.
@Undead Scottsman nope, its PC and Switch only at the moment. SuperGiant haven't released a game on Xbox since Bastion(and its anniversary HD remaster).
it's a big goofup, they tweeted an apology, it was a mistake, it's not coming.
Xbox Live worked though, and claimed the name to where it's synonymous with Xbox.
Xbox Network sounds not only too similar to PSN but also like a deep cable channel.
worth noting that its 'network' with a lower case 'n'. that might seem like a small/inconsequential difference but i don't think we're going to see 'Xbox Network' as a brand itself. rather they'll refer to the network that powers all Xbox iteration(console, PC apps and xCloud), instead of Live which was a service built handle console online functionality specifically.
Xbox Network's Major Nelson was just too much.
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Xbox Live worked though, and claimed the name to where it's synonymous with Xbox.
Xbox Network sounds not only too similar to PSN but also like a deep cable channel.
worth noting that its 'network' with a lower case 'n'. that might seem like a small/inconsequential difference but i don't think we're going to see 'Xbox Network' as a brand itself. rather they'll refer to the network that powers all Xbox iteration(console, PC apps and xCloud), instead of Live which was a service built handle console online functionality specifically.
It sounds like it could be internal organizational language. Xbox does this pretty often--more often then they rename things that are already established; for Microsoft, the two most obvious things are probably OneDrive and Mixer, original SkyDrive and Beam, which they were forced to rename due to similarity to an existing brand and inability to license, respectively. By contrast, a bunch of Xbox internal offices--not to mention the actual name of Microsoft Game Studios--were renamed as internal organization measures.
Xbox Live is the first (successful) unified home console network (though obviously the original incarnation was retired several years ago). It has some history accordingly. Then again, people didn't like the name originally either.
That might be it. Or it might not be. "Xbox Network" does, in fact, sound too much like Playstation Network. And as an addendum, moving aside the powerful branding, "Playstation Network" sounds a bit like an adult-themed premium television package, especially if you capitalize the 'S'. :?
EDIT: So apparently both situations may be true? The name change, per Microsoft's user services agreement, refers to the unified body of networking infrastructure. Our beloved D.J. turned podcaster will be "Xbox's Major Nelson" accordingly?
If you're talking Xbox rebranding, how could you forget them rebranding Zune Video and Zune Music to Xbox Video and Xbox Music on the way to it being the current Movies & TV and Groove Music?
If you're talking Xbox rebranding, how could you forget them rebranding Zune Video and Zune Music to Xbox Video and Xbox Music on the way to it being the current Movies & TV and Groove Music?
Technically, those weren't straightforward rebranding. They were the "evolution" onto the newer platforms. It was never called "Zune Music" on Xbox, for example.
All the Zune services remained called those until the Zune line died (indeed, they still are called that if you use the devices).
And now I'm sad. :sad:
EDIT: The shift from Windows Phone to WIndows Mobile is a more clear-cut case probably. But even that involved completely redesigning the OS. Nokia Lumia to just Lumia?
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"Attempting to connect to Xbox network network..."
"Network 'network' Network Unreachable, please check your Network settings..."
See? There's no possible scenario where this will be confusing for anyone at all! They've thought of *everything* with this round of re-branding... EVERYTHING! :rotate:
"Attempting to connect to Xbox network network..."
"Network 'network' Network Unreachable, please check your Network settings..."
See? There's no possible scenario where this will be confusing for anyone at all! They've thought of *everything* with this round of re-branding... EVERYTHING! :rotate:
I'll take the wager that everything gets changed but we can actually just ask the people in the early access program who are already going through it. Still, wager!
Plus, I don't recall it ever seeing "Network 'Xbox Live' Network Unreachable," in all these years.
I'm probably missing something really obvious here, but how do you actually get EA Play games on Game Pass PC? The Xbox PC app doesn't really show anywhere to sign up, and when I try to select an EA game like Star Wars Squadrons it just takes me to an error page.
I'm probably missing something really obvious here, but how do you actually get EA Play games on Game Pass PC? The Xbox PC app doesn't really show anywhere to sign up, and when I try to select an EA game like Star Wars Squadrons it just takes me to an error page.
It may be broken, but you need to install EA Desktop (EA's own relevant library-style service). When I tried to play Star Wars Squadrons it prompted me to do so, with a little box explaining it was required, and automatically put in my relevant Xbox account info.
It's possible it's down right on on EA, or Xbox's, end. You could just download EA Desktop the old fashion way, and open it remotely. I wonder if this is actually going to replace Origin or some point (probably just don't follow the service enough), but signing in with my EA account info, it was already bound to Xbox Game Pass and I can download everything that way.
Yeah right now the xbox app just seems broken. Loading any page gives a "looks like you're stranded" error page and when I look at the settings I can't retrieve my game pass subscription status. Tried resetting and repairing the app in windows 10 and now it just shows a sad face on the left bar where my installed games should be.
Yeah right now the xbox app just seems broken. Loading any page gives a "looks like you're stranded" error page and when I look at the settings I can't retrieve my game pass subscription status. Tried resetting and repairing the app in windows 10 and now it just shows a sad face on the left bar where my installed games should be.
I saw the same sad face, but only for EA Games.
As a test, I just installed Doom 64 for PC via the app and it is running. I never ran it before so it had to link to my Xbox account but it worked. Could be a regional outtage though.
If you have EA Desktop installed before, you have to uninstall it, and then (I think reboot first) let the Xbox app install it's version of EA desktop.
Atleast that's what got it working for me last week.
If you have EA Desktop installed before, you have to uninstall it, and then (I think reboot first) let the Xbox app install it's version of EA desktop.
Atleast that's what got it working for me last week.
Alright I completely uninstalled and re-downloaded the Xbox app from the Windows store and I'm able to sign in and not see the sad faces anymore. And the the front page of the app there's now a banner for EA Play, clicking through gets gives me the option to download EA Desktop, which they are calling "beta":
Update:
I let the Xbox app install EA desktop, it required a reboot to complete installation. After reboot I launched EA desktop and created an EA account, but for some reason it was still asking me to sign up for a paid subscription. I couldn't find any options to link my EA account to my Xbox game pass sub in the app. What I had to do was open the Xbox app and click through the EA play banner again to where I had it install the EA app, which then asked me to sign in with my EA account and then prompt the account linking to my xbox account.
After getting pulled aside to do Wolfenstein Youngblood all the way through, I'm back on Control and just cleared the AWE DLC. Overall, I'm very high on it, but I think they misjudged a couple things. The last boss was outrageous and the first thing in the game to make me reach for the assist mode options. It would have been fine if they didn't let his health regenerate to full extremely fast. With that stipulation in there, the scenario kind of falls apart in a really unfun way. After how interesting the space AWE room is, the train comes off as a nothing burger. I was expecting the Bright Falls AWE to replicate the town in some way (like Ordinary AWE from the main campaign), but it's just a boss room without anything interesting about it. Finally, while (once again) the side content in the space AWE was neat, the other side missions in the zone don't impress. The mailbox altered object really needed to pop at the end of that fetch/ delivery quest, but it's literally just sitting there. This last part I consider a spoiler.
Obviously, the ending part is meant to be hype by basically promising some kind of Alan Wake continuation, which don't get me wrong, I'm all for. My problem with it is, the whole existence of this DLC guaranteed that idea (if they had no new plans for Wake, the lore mentions of him in the main game would have sufficed). My issue is, there's interesting Bureau stuff going on in this DLC, with more abuses of power and bad handling of things than was usually present in the main game's lore and background storytelling. The pay off for the Bureau is... nothing. Jesse reacts to a psychic distress call from Wake to go to Investigations, goes there, finds a bad job the Bureau did with containment one time, hears that Wake is doing stuff off to the side, kills a monster, and then leaves, totally unmoved by anything that just happened. I don't know how the main story turns out yet, so perhaps they had some issues from that that made things difficult. But otherwise, they really needed a reason for Jesse to want to go to Investigations aside from "Help Wake" because you don't actually do that. Maybe there's some evidence the Bureau dug up about her parents or something locked down there. Anything really. The ending of the last playable content for Control should not solely be an ad for an entirely different game. That does Control a disservice.
Yeah, I was really disappointed with that last Control DLC. I really enjoyed both games, so finally getting to that teased crossover had me so hyped, but then it's not really that much of a crossover, as Jesse and Alan never really meet/interact. It's just another tease in itself. And what we got didn't satisfy me as an Alan Wake fan or a Control fan. And that last fight can go fuck itself.
Control was one of the highlights of the last few years for me, so it's a shame it ends on a sour note now.
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I wonder if this is actually going to replace Origin or some point
yes, that's exactly what is happening. In fact if you uninstall origin now, any installed origin games will now simply be automatically launched through this new app, it just kind of figures it out behind the scenes.
it seems quite a bit snappier than origin from my quick poke around but not every game on origin has migrated to it yet.
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Hey, just to set expectations correctly, no, Hades will NOT be featured in Friday's show. Its inclusion in that artwork was an error.
Nelson's denial/retraction reads more like somebody trying to cover a leak. Whatever Hades is, if MS doesn't have access to it putting that image on there is like putting up a likeness of Crash Badicoot or something.
Nelson's denial/retraction reads more like somebody trying to cover a leak. Whatever Hades is, if MS doesn't have access to it putting that image on there is like putting up a likeness of Crash Badicoot or something.
Crash is multi platform again lol. You need to come out of your cave sometimes Santa. We have cool stuff out here!
Nelson's denial/retraction reads more like somebody trying to cover a leak. Whatever Hades is, if MS doesn't have access to it putting that image on there is like putting up a likeness of Crash Badicoot or something.
Crash is multi platform again lol. You need to come out of your cave sometimes Santa. We have cool stuff out here!
We also have fascism and the coronavirus, so maybe you have the right idea with this cave thing.
Nelson's denial/retraction reads more like somebody trying to cover a leak. Whatever Hades is, if MS doesn't have access to it putting that image on there is like putting up a likeness of Crash Badicoot or something.
Crash is multi platform again lol. You need to come out of your cave sometimes Santa. We have cool stuff out here!
We also have fascism and the coronavirus, so maybe you have the right idea with this cave thing.
At least get a broadband connection going into the cave. Then you could play Hades.
If you're talking Xbox rebranding, how could you forget them rebranding Zune Video and Zune Music to Xbox Video and Xbox Music on the way to it being the current Movies & TV and Groove Music?
Technically, those weren't straightforward rebranding. They were the "evolution" onto the newer platforms. It was never called "Zune Music" on Xbox, for example.
All the Zune services remained called those until the Zune line died (indeed, they still are called that if you use the devices).
And now I'm sad. :sad:
EDIT: The shift from Windows Phone to WIndows Mobile is a more clear-cut case probably. But even that involved completely redesigning the OS. Nokia Lumia to just Lumia?
Word, I'm pouring one out for my Zune - still sitting in my closet - useless.
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Nelson's denial/retraction reads more like somebody trying to cover a leak. Whatever Hades is, if MS doesn't have access to it putting that image on there is like putting up a likeness of Crash Badicoot or something.
Crash is multi platform again lol. You need to come out of your cave sometimes Santa. We have cool stuff out here!
Looks like they’re doing a free to play weekend for watch dogs legion, I really recommend everyone try it out. It doesn’t quite work 100%, but as an experiment it’s a lot of fun. A lot of the cutscenes end up feeling like British accent madlibs but it still has that charm you only get from a game trying something new. Cutscenes and mission briefings basically use all your recruits so you feel like you’re playing as a small group rather than a single character, it’s quite clever and different. It still has like a central cast of static npcs your group bounces off too which are forgettable but serviceable enough
It didn’t sell too well and so I’m worried other games won’t try similar stuff, but I’d love like a fantasy game where you build an army and can play as any character. Lots of neat possibilities with the idea
The city itself also looks very impressive and detailed on next gen consoles
It's showing on the Free Play Days ad panel for me but it's still just R6 Siege in there for now, I'll have to grab that tomorrow. I was cautiously optimistic for Legion and then didn't pick it up at launch because it obviously had issues (overheating One X consoles was a biggie), but I've wanted to give it a shot. FPD is just the right venue for that game.
Looks like they’re doing a free to play weekend for watch dogs legion, I really recommend everyone try it out. It doesn’t quite work 100%, but as an experiment it’s a lot of fun. A lot of the cutscenes end up feeling like British accent madlibs but it still has that charm you only get from a game trying something new. Cutscenes and mission briefings basically use all your recruits so you feel like you’re playing as a small group rather than a single character, it’s quite clever and different. It still has like a central cast of static npcs your group bounces off too which are forgettable but serviceable enough
It didn’t sell too well and so I’m worried other games won’t try similar stuff, but I’d love like a fantasy game where you build an army and can play as any character. Lots of neat possibilities with the idea
The city itself also looks very impressive and detailed on next gen consoles
I've talked about it a bit before, but Watch Dogs: Legion was/is a fun game. Most recent update fixed the bug with masks introduced around the time they started updates for online going up? IDK, either way good to go.
However, as is the case with most Ubisoft games, it had a flawed release... one of the lowlights, particularly with the Series X version, was being randomly unable to save progress*... as it was also during the holiday season, it took a while to fix. But this and and other bugs delayed the online version's release until well, now, so there's a lot of jilted fan-base energy too.
edit: *you'd lose connection to ubiconnect after about up to 30 minutes of play. there would be no indication that the saves were unsuccessful... so if you did a bunch of missions or recruited people, that stuff would be gone. collectible progress, however, stuck. it was weird.
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Hades on Xbox? SuperGiant Games returning to Xbox??? oh please please please please.....
EDIT: added quoted post cause TOTP.
@Undead Scottsman nope, its PC and Switch only at the moment. SuperGiant haven't released a game on Xbox since Bastion(and its anniversary HD remaster).
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it's a big goofup, they tweeted an apology, it was a mistake, it's not coming.
Xbox Network's Major Nelson was just too much.
It sounds like it could be internal organizational language. Xbox does this pretty often--more often then they rename things that are already established; for Microsoft, the two most obvious things are probably OneDrive and Mixer, original SkyDrive and Beam, which they were forced to rename due to similarity to an existing brand and inability to license, respectively. By contrast, a bunch of Xbox internal offices--not to mention the actual name of Microsoft Game Studios--were renamed as internal organization measures.
Xbox Live is the first (successful) unified home console network (though obviously the original incarnation was retired several years ago). It has some history accordingly. Then again, people didn't like the name originally either.
That might be it. Or it might not be. "Xbox Network" does, in fact, sound too much like Playstation Network. And as an addendum, moving aside the powerful branding, "Playstation Network" sounds a bit like an adult-themed premium television package, especially if you capitalize the 'S'. :?
EDIT: So apparently both situations may be true? The name change, per Microsoft's user services agreement, refers to the unified body of networking infrastructure. Our beloved D.J. turned podcaster will be "Xbox's Major Nelson" accordingly?
Technically, those weren't straightforward rebranding. They were the "evolution" onto the newer platforms. It was never called "Zune Music" on Xbox, for example.
All the Zune services remained called those until the Zune line died (indeed, they still are called that if you use the devices).
And now I'm sad. :sad:
EDIT: The shift from Windows Phone to WIndows Mobile is a more clear-cut case probably. But even that involved completely redesigning the OS. Nokia Lumia to just Lumia?
"Network 'network' Network Unreachable, please check your Network settings..."
See? There's no possible scenario where this will be confusing for anyone at all! They've thought of *everything* with this round of re-branding... EVERYTHING! :rotate:
I'll take the wager that everything gets changed but we can actually just ask the people in the early access program who are already going through it. Still, wager!
Plus, I don't recall it ever seeing "Network 'Xbox Live' Network Unreachable," in all these years.
It may be broken, but you need to install EA Desktop (EA's own relevant library-style service). When I tried to play Star Wars Squadrons it prompted me to do so, with a little box explaining it was required, and automatically put in my relevant Xbox account info.
It's possible it's down right on on EA, or Xbox's, end. You could just download EA Desktop the old fashion way, and open it remotely. I wonder if this is actually going to replace Origin or some point (probably just don't follow the service enough), but signing in with my EA account info, it was already bound to Xbox Game Pass and I can download everything that way.
(Also, no Xbox achievements. :sad: )
I saw the same sad face, but only for EA Games.
As a test, I just installed Doom 64 for PC via the app and it is running. I never ran it before so it had to link to my Xbox account but it worked. Could be a regional outtage though.
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Alright I completely uninstalled and re-downloaded the Xbox app from the Windows store and I'm able to sign in and not see the sad faces anymore. And the the front page of the app there's now a banner for EA Play, clicking through gets gives me the option to download EA Desktop, which they are calling "beta":
Update:
I let the Xbox app install EA desktop, it required a reboot to complete installation. After reboot I launched EA desktop and created an EA account, but for some reason it was still asking me to sign up for a paid subscription. I couldn't find any options to link my EA account to my Xbox game pass sub in the app. What I had to do was open the Xbox app and click through the EA play banner again to where I had it install the EA app, which then asked me to sign in with my EA account and then prompt the account linking to my xbox account.
Control was one of the highlights of the last few years for me, so it's a shame it ends on a sour note now.
it seems quite a bit snappier than origin from my quick poke around but not every game on origin has migrated to it yet.
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Crash is multi platform again lol. You need to come out of your cave sometimes Santa. We have cool stuff out here!
We also have fascism and the coronavirus, so maybe you have the right idea with this cave thing.
At least get a broadband connection going into the cave. Then you could play Hades.
Word, I'm pouring one out for my Zune - still sitting in my closet - useless.
Whatever.
It didn’t sell too well and so I’m worried other games won’t try similar stuff, but I’d love like a fantasy game where you build an army and can play as any character. Lots of neat possibilities with the idea
The city itself also looks very impressive and detailed on next gen consoles
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It's out? Or you just mean from like, 360 to One?
I've talked about it a bit before, but Watch Dogs: Legion was/is a fun game. Most recent update fixed the bug with masks introduced around the time they started updates for online going up? IDK, either way good to go.
However, as is the case with most Ubisoft games, it had a flawed release... one of the lowlights, particularly with the Series X version, was being randomly unable to save progress*... as it was also during the holiday season, it took a while to fix. But this and and other bugs delayed the online version's release until well, now, so there's a lot of jilted fan-base energy too.
edit: *you'd lose connection to ubiconnect after about up to 30 minutes of play. there would be no indication that the saves were unsuccessful... so if you did a bunch of missions or recruited people, that stuff would be gone. collectible progress, however, stuck. it was weird.