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Metacritic publisher of the year award goes to....
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Sosokrates
Report me if I continue to console war
R3claimer117
Member
Seeesh so it’s going to be hard to beat Microsoft going forward especially if the activision deal closes before MW2 comes out that will go under them for this year as well along with Forza Motorsport, starfeild and whatever else gets released from them also this year but going into 2023 and beyond Xbox is looking scary.
purpletentacle
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.Pennywise
Banned
Sorry but not organic enough for me
onesvenus
Member
Nor Bethesda
Negotiator101
Member
Elden Ring has done that already, Starfield will have to go some to better that, hopefully they can.
pasterpl
Member
You know that Sony 10 releases include death stranding and ghosts of Tsushima ps5 remakes (I know ms list includes flight sim). Also quantity is not equal to quality - how many games out of these 10 achieve avg score over 90? In summary great year for ms, well deserved and this is just the beginning (next 2-3 years will be very interesting with ms recent acquisitions). Starfield, if it is what they promise might be game of the generation. Then if Bethesda can get their shit together we might get next TES game before end of this gen. And this is only one studio that ms owns.
Negotiator101
Member
Wrong thread.
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blacktout
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Unless your definition of "review well" is 95+ Metacritic, then this take is nuts.
Nintendo is typically somewhere in the top 10 on these rankings. This was a particularly bad year for them.
Nintendo's biggest challenge for lists like this isn't that critics "hate their games." They generally release multiple games in the 80+ range per year. It's that they also release casual "blue ocean" games that get middling reviews and drag their average down. I imagine the lack of a 90+ game last year and the tepid response to the Pokemon remakes didn't help.
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zaanan
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Ezquimacore
Banned
Good for Microsoft, the industry is always licking Sony and Nintendo's ass.
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The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
2021 was pretty bad for game releases so...
Craig of War
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You sound salty as hell typical fanboy respond lol No hype for Starfield? and Call of Duty are you on crack bro lol
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CatLady
Selfishly plays on Xbox Purr-ies X
Xbox first party studios won a few GotYs like well over 100 which is far more than any other publisher and about 4 to 5 times what either Sony or Nintendo won.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
They aren't triple A games.
Yes 2021 was a bad year for gaming.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Gotcha, I get how it works
They already did, MS Studio was the highest GoTY award winning publisher last year.
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S0ULZB0URNE
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Not most overall GOTY award since maybe the 360 days.Gotcha, I get how it works
They already did, MS Studio was the highest GoTY award winning publisher last year.
HYDE
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Haha Bethesda & Activision. Not degrading my Xbox Series X with shit games. Only one good game was published by Activision chump bitch…Sekiro. And like has been said a billion times people who say that trash are self admitting fantards.You sound salty as hell typical fanboy respond lol No hype for Starfield? and Call of Duty are you on crack bro lol
Javthusiast
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Craig of War
Banned
you are seriously weird and are clouded by your weirdness in the real world don't work like that bro
HYDE
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Then quit making bs shit comments. I own both systems. So what if I prefer a game genre different than you…fuck off and harass someone else, I’m not your bro.
Craig of War
Banned
it not harassing it teaching closed minded gamers like you who only play a certain genre of games while shitting on every other game for no reason
kingpotato
Ask me about my Stream Deck
This reminds me of a thread that got locked...
Microsoft would be the GOAT if they allowed me to pause my Gamepass subscription. As it stands now, it's going to expire unplayed because I've got too many other games to play elsewhere
I'm sure they will be in the running for this again this fall.
Microsoft would be the GOAT if they allowed me to pause my Gamepass subscription. As it stands now, it's going to expire unplayed because I've got too many other games to play elsewhere
I'm sure they will be in the running for this again this fall.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
This reminds me of a thread that got locked...
Microsoft would be the GOAT if they allowed me to pause my Gamepass subscription. As it stands now, it's going to expire unplayed because I've got too many other games to play elsewhere
I'm sure they will be in the running for this again this fall.
You know .. that's actually not a bad idea at all.
Sling does it and I've used that feature.
THEAP99
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i always thought it should be based on "time played" rather than dates. like instead of 3 months in date-time, it's 3 months in play hours.This reminds me of a thread that got locked...
Microsoft would be the GOAT if they allowed me to pause my Gamepass subscription. As it stands now, it's going to expire unplayed because I've got too many other games to play elsewhere
I'm sure they will be in the running for this again this fall.
Strider Highwind
Banned
Yo the scrolling gif is hilarious, and I read it in Khaleds voice lmaooo
And this is dope, good for the people working on the games to get some love, nothing wrong with it or anything for folks to be upset about. All gamers win when there are good efforts on multiple platforms
BusierDonkey
Member
Definitely a good year for them as a whole. Lots of good games, Gamepass was a constant go-to for me to the extent my Steam backlog hasn't gotten any smaller despite playing a lot of games. This year has already been pretty good on that front as well and if possibly both Motorsport and Starfield release this fall I'll likely be playing those steadily well into 2023.
Brofist
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DaGwaphics
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This reminds me of a thread that got locked...
Microsoft would be the GOAT if they allowed me to pause my Gamepass subscription. As it stands now, it's going to expire unplayed because I've got too many other games to play elsewhere
I'm sure they will be in the running for this again this fall.
Seems like a terrible idea. I can only imagine what would happen to Netflix's financials if they let you buy a month and stretch that over a year.
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
This reminds me of a thread that got locked...
Microsoft would be the GOAT if they allowed me to pause my Gamepass subscription. As it stands now, it's going to expire unplayed because I've got too many other games to play elsewhere
I'm sure they will be in the running for this again this fall.
Buy one month instead then.
Theres no subscription in the world that let's you pause after already paying for it. That's not how subs works.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
If someone had a monthly recurring payment set up, then I can see that method actually working out great.
Choose to pause subscription at the end of the current billing cycle and resume whenever later to have it charge for a month and resume again.
But I can see how it won't work for anyone who uses the Gold -> GPU trick as you've got up to 36 months of Game Pass upfront (I'm one of these).
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kingpotato
Ask me about my Stream Deck
The current system is terrible for the consumer. Right now my sub is going to lapse unused lol.Seems like a terrible idea. I can only imagine what would happen to Netflix's financials if they let you buy a month and stretch that over a year.
I was given a three month card plus a free month trial plus a bonus month for putting in my CC. I haven't paid for any of it and it's all going to expire barely used.
There wasn't a service "in the world" exactly like Gamepass before Gamepass. Just because you can't imagine a subscription that doesn't screw over the consumer doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Huge gap between MS and everyone else. The gap between MS vs Sony is bigger than Sony vs 505 Games.
www.videogameschronicle.com
Microsoft was Metacritic’s highest-rated publisher in 2021, with the largest average score ever | VGC
The publisher beat out Sony…
www.videogameschronicle.com
Microsoft was Metacritic’s highest-rated publisher in 2021, with the largest average score ever
The full list of 43 publishers, which only counts those who released five or more games in 2021, can be found on the Metacritic site, but the top 10 were as follows:- 1) Microsoft / Xbox Game Studios – 87.4 (last year: 6th)
- 2) Sony – 81.3 (last year: 4th)
- 3) Humble Games – 80.9 (last year: 18th)
- 4) Activision Blizzard – 80.6 (last year: 5th)
- 5) Bethesda Softworks – 80.2 (last year: 16th)
- 6) Capcom – 80.6 (last year: 3rd)
- 7) Bandai Namco – 78.5 (last year: 38th)
- 8) Sega – 77.6 (last year: 1st)
- 9) Electronic Arts – 78.3 (last year: 21st)
- 10) 505 Games – 75.7 (last year: 13th)
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onesvenus
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Why do you think quality will go down with subscriptions?
Hobbygaming
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Probably not this year at least. It's looking like it might be Sony for highest rated this year
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Chukhopops
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Even if you believe that MS will lower the budget because of subscriptions (they won’t), budget isn’t a predictor of quality. But I think this year won’t be as spectacular as last year for MS based on what’s been announced.
nemiroff
Gold Member
wat, where are these things coming from, it's like out of the blue. Is this the new narrative now? Why?
Edit: Oh wait, this bump is just a insecurity thingy because of Sony's lack of commitment for their PS+ service isn't it.. Jesus.. some people are so incredibly pathetic.
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