I hate being a fan of this fucking team, the winning is great but quite a bit of human garbage has been employed by them and an uncomfortable number of other fans just excuse all of it.
I think Fusion/Link event just means you can only use Fusion and Links and no other ED types
I guess the first that comes to mind for me is Revue Starlight. Which maybe sounds like a weird answer since it got a sequel movie... but tbh I wasn't really that thrilled by the movie and thought the TV series was nice and conclusive as-is
Ohhh, I figured you did the dub Cal, arent you typically a dub or die person?
Is there actually no legitimate way to stream Persona 4: The Animation these days? Like really crunchyroll, ya got P5A, a prologue episode to P5, a fucking P5 stage play, and fucking Persona 4 Golden, but not one of the actually good Persona anime?
I gave Star Rail another try a few weeks ago, but quit before getting to the point I did originally. If it was a normal game without the gacha and item grind, Id probably like it.
Porygon was a scapegoat. It did nothing wrong, it was literally Pikachu's fault
can't believe porygon got banned from anime for all eternity just to protect the mascot
Phil and his team run the division. the higher ups may tell them what they want to see from their investments, but at the end of the day they make the decisions on how to make money off these investments, who to cut, who to close and what to cancel. They are just as responsible for all this, IMO.
I spoke to two former longtime Xbox employees, separately, and both lamented the current state of the business. One told me, prior to this weeks awful studio closures, I had lengthy conversations with a bunch of Xbox founders, and we all came to the same conclusion: its no longer Xbox, but Microsoft Gaming. Ouch.
The other chatted with me at length after the Bethesda bloodbath, and believes Xbox is now too big to quickly or easily get its house in order. There is just too much surface area. You have, effectively, three huge companies at play and Microsoft never really finished [the] integration with Bethesda. [And] Activision is like three times the size Xbox was. They added, Xbox 360 launched with a few hundred people. Last I heard Xbox is now almost 30,000 people.
And that growth has led to, in this Xbox veterans opinion, increased oversight and meddling from further up the Microsoft food chain. The reason this seems so inconsistent with previous Xbox leadership team statements is that these decisions probably aren't being made by Phil. This is all getting dictated by [Microsoft CEO] Satya [Nadella] and [Microsoft CFO] Amy Hood, and it all stems from the Activision acquisition.
The long-tenured ex-Xboxer continued: The situation Xbox was in when they made this call was much different. [They] couldn't keep consoles in stock, making money hand-over-fist with Game Pass growth [the Activision acquisition] seemed like a no-brainer.
"Now, console sales are down. Post-COVID recession. Game Pass slowing. The acquisition was more costly and time-consuming than anyone expected. And the focus on fighting the FTC probably cost them time they would have spent thinking through the people and studio implications.
I 100% believe this is a board-level decision. Xbox was a huge profit center, so Satya approved a huge merger. Now, games are slowing, and Microsoft stock is skyrocketing and there is no way Satya is going to let Xbox drag it down.
This is all my opinion, of course, butI'm fairly certain these are not decisions being made only by Xbox leadership.
Thats not to absolve Spencer for his role in all of this (unlike the tone-deaf Wont someone think of the multi-millionaire executives? response of former Xbox higher-up Mike Ybarra). He is, after all, the person in charge of the entire organization. The buck stops with him. The Bethesda and Activision-Blizzard acquisitions happened on his watch. As such, he is no more shielded from criticism for being, by most accounts (including my own), a nice guy than the star professional athlete is for underperforming on the field/court despite regularly signing autographs for kids before games.