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Perfect Dark is dead. Honestly, good. I
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wasn't exactly lining up to play Woke
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Chin the reboot anyway. But here's the
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kicker. Xbox has also laid off 9,000
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people, canned multiple games on top of
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that, and somehow still can't finish a
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title that they announced four years
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ago. It's like watching a $3 trillion
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tech company speedrun failure. Look, I
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love Xbox, but right now they are
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fumbling so hard it's embarrassing. Are
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they part of the Dallas Cowboys? Cuz it
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seems like it. This week in gaming, it
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feels like a funeral procession, guys.
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Perfect Dark is reportedly cancelled.
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And Rar's Ever Wild is also cancelled.
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And Microsoft is also swinging the axe
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left and right, laying people off. And
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before anyone even says, "But layoffs
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happen. This is part of the business."
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Well, yeah, but when when you're
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actually releasing games is part of it,
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but Xbox has turned into a vaporware
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company somehow, almost like an art
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form. So, let's start with Perfect Dark.
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Okay, remember when Xbox showed it off
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like last year and it was the second
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coming. It was like, oh my god, they
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gave us a flashy trailer and then we had
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the new Joanna Dark design that looked
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like she was styled by a Tumblr mod and
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said, oh look, it's almost done, guys.
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Well, apparently almost done meant not
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even close by. Now, fast forward to now.
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Layoffs are hitting and the game's
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canceled again. And yes, I'm going to
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say it. This is what happens when you
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design games for social media clout
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and you have that big old chin. Instead
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of actually making the game for fans,
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nobody asked for woke chin Joanna. We
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wanted the badass from the N64 and 360
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era days, not a glorified tech demo or
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some kind of like trailer that basically
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doesn't show actual gameplay. Uh, and no
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corporate approved diversity vibes. All
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right, this is what happens. You f
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around, you find out. I had a feeling
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that this game eventually was not going
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to come out. And even though it sucks,
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trust me, I'm with you guys. If you
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played Perfect Dark and you're a retro
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gamer, I'm with you. I get it. It sucks.
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It sucks, man. It sucks. What movie is
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that from? Leave the comment in the
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description down below if you know
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exactly what movie that's from. But
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wait, there's more of this. Remember
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Ever Wild? That game from Rare? It's
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canled. What a shame. Rare can't even
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get its games out. What's the last game
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that Rare made? I remember they made
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that Battle Toads remake and that was
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like it. This thing's been missing in
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action since 2019. They announced Ever
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Wild in 2019, guys. We're going into the
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middle of 2025 now. You couldn't get
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hyped for it even if you wanted to
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because it's literally vaporware. And
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that's that's what it seems like all
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Xbox does now. I'll be amazed if Fable
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even comes out at this point. Zenamax,
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this new MMO that's been in development
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since 2018 that they have coming out,
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that's gone, too. And didn't they spend
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billions on Zenamax? Are we noticing a
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trend here, guys? Xbox announces a game,
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shows us a logo, a coming soon or a year
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date. Everyone claps, and then it
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vanishes for 5 years, and then it
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quietly gets axed while Phil Spencer
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gives us another apology to her on kind
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of funny. I facts again. I wouldn't be
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surprised if Fable doesn't come out, if
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Elder Scrolls 6 doesn't come out, cuz
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literally it's been radio silent for any
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of those games as well. We saw a brief
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trailer, uh, an ugly character or two
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here, and then absolutely nothing.
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And here's the thing, guys. Microsoft
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keeps hiring armies of developers,
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buying up studios to make three trailers
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a year. I swear to God, they've turned
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Xbox Game Studios into a PowerPoint
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factory, cuz that's all we see now is
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trailer, trailer, trailer, trailer.
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That's it. Nothing. No substance. No, no
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games ever coming out. 9,000 people.
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9,000 people, that's a small town, just
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lost their just lost their livelihoods,
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their jobs, and most of them were
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probably working on games that will
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never even see that will never ever come
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out never see the light of day. And
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that's sad. Okay, I am picking fun of it
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and laughing and making jokes, but it is
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sad to see everything that's been
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announced that we'll never see. And and
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don't even get me started on Embracer
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Group, okay? Everybody's favorite
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company. Those guys treat game studios
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like expired yogurt. Okay, Volition got
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nuked after one flop. Crystal Dynamics
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is on thin ice. This isn't the last game
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that's getting cancelled. Perfect Dark
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is probably the first domino out of many
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going on. So, right now, if you look on
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on Twitter, if you look on social media,
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YouTube, fans are melting down. Okay,
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RGT85 made his video talking about it,
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giving his take. He ain't too happy.
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We've also seen Vera Dark, Dreamcast
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guy, you name it. Several people were
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making their videos talking about this.
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I wanted to give my take on it. I think
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I even saw a post about one guy saying
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if Perfect Dark is canceled, he's
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selling every Xbox console that he owns.
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Like, that's the point that we've
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reached where fans are annoyed. And then
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apparently there's other people that are
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saying they've been waiting since 2005
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for this game and they're absolutely
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done. And I'm sorry, guys. Don't hold
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your breath anymore when it comes to
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these companies, especially Microsoft
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and Xbox, okay? They're a corporation.
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They see money. They only care about
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profits. If there's too many losses, if
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they're not making enough uh money in
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return, they're going to cancel and lay
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off people. It's a given. I believe
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their fiscal year just ended. Actually,
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I think Microsoft's fiscal year uh
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starts July 1st. So, they just did the
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report for that. I think their fiscal
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year's different or something. I don't
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know. I heard some kind of rumor or
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speculation on that, which is why
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layoffs are happening. But yeah, Xbox
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has been putting games that are just
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entirely forgettable. Okay, remember
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Redfall, right? Xbox promised the world
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and gave us Redfall, a game that just
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totally flopped. That one was like
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levels of like floppiness that we've
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haven't seen in quite some time. And
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people are asking, how is a trillion
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dollar company like Microsoft, like Xbox
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still not able to make games? You're
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buying all the talent, all the studios
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in the world, and you can't make games.
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And honestly, I don't have a good answer
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for it. If you figure it out, call Phil
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Spencer because there's a problem. If
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you're spending this much money on video
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game studios, you own this many
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properties, this many IPs like Perfect
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Dark, Battle Toads, you name it. all the
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things that they have underneath the
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Zenamax Activision banner and you're
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having trouble making video games,
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there's something wrong. There's a
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leadership issue. There's many probably
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many too many corpos getting involved. I
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don't know at this point. Is it money
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laundering? You tell me guys cuz this
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doesn't make sense at all right here.
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And the problem isn't just delays with
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Xbox, it's trust. Xbox has lost a lot of
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benefit of the doubt with gamers.
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Announcements do not mean anything
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anymore. You could literally just slap a
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logo, make a trailer, and say, "Oh,
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here's an announcement." That Perfect
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Dark trailer last year, guys, was just
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another fake out to keep stockholders
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happy. That's ultimately it. This is how
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you burn your community out, though. You
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got to remember the consumer. Uh
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remember the Knights of the Old Republic
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remake that got nuked into Oblivion the
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second people found out that Sam Mags
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was involved, that activist. Uh, when
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you build your game around a press
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release, like, "Oh, here's a trailer.
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Here's a press release. Here's
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something." Instead of actual gameplay,
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don't be shocked when no one shows up to
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the funeral for it. When nobody cares
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anymore, which is the point that it
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seems like we're getting to right now,
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and embracer, let's not pretend they
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care about us, guys. They invest in
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everything, then they dump it the second
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that it doesn't make five times the
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money. Restructuring is their favorite
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word, but translation is you're fired.
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Right. Zenamax was making a fantasy MMO
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uh code named Blackbird since like 2018.
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And that's gone now, too. Since 2018,
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almost a decade in development. Just
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just gone just like that. And yeah,
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maybe that one would have been cool. Uh
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MMOs can be fun. I know they have big
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followings, but if you spend seven years
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plus almost to a decade making nothing
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anyone can play, anyone can see, I can't
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feel bad when that project gets
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scrapped. Okay, we never had it to begin
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with. It was all vapor wear. And look,
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I'm not trying to dance on the grave of
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but this is getting a bit much. The
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industry is on fire in my opinion.
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People are losing their jobs and that
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sucks. But Xbox needs to stop
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overpromising and underdelivering.
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That's the problem here. They have no
9:04
structure. Stop hyping up titles 5 years
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early. Okay? If it's not coming out
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anytime soon, don't make a trailer about
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it. Stop turning trailers into lies.
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Don't announce your stuff if it's not
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coming out within the next year or two.
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Okay? Nintendo does a good job not over
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announcing stuff, give or take a Metroid
9:20
Prime 4 or there, but for the most part,
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it's stuff that's coming out that year.
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and Perfect Dark honestly deserve
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better, guys. But if Woke Chin was what
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the final product was gonna be, maybe
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it's for the best. Maybe it's for the
9:34
best, guys. But if you're tired of this
9:37
same cycle where we get trailers, we get
9:39
cancellations after silence, then stick
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around. Hit that subscription button
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right here, guys. I'm going to keep
9:45
calling this stuff out until Xbox or
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Nintendo, Sony, whoever gets it
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together, cuz I I'm I'm equal
9:51
opportunity with calling these companies
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out. Somebody has to. All right, so hit
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that sub button. I'll see you on the
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next video. Thank you so much for
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watching. I'll see you on the next one.
