 The Thursday letters page hopes Starfield inspires a new wave of space games, as readers offer help for Armored Core 6's Sulla and Balteus. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk Buyer's remorse This whole business with Starfield reviews seems to be another example of Microsoft being too loose with its management of its developers. Someone sensible should've told Bethesda not to get themselves into this situation, but apparently Bethesda are free to do whatever they want. If that's the case, why bother buying them? Microsoft could've saved themselves a few billion and just signed individual games up as Xbox exclusives. Then again, Starfield is probably going to be good and certainly seems to have inspired a lot of interest in Xbox. Microsoft might be handling them poorly, but Bethesda was a much more sensible purchase than Activision Blizzard. Not only are the Call Of Duty makers stupidly expensive but all their big franchises are currently in decline. If this year's Modern Warfare 3 is not as big as usual I wonder if Phil Spencer and co. will begin to regret it all. $69 billion is such a ridiculous amount of money, I can't help thinking there must be an infinite number of other things worth spending it on than Activision Blizzard. Mailor Badge of honour I think it's pretty obvious what Bethesda is doing with the reviews codes in the UK. They've realised that all the sites most likely to give low scores all happen to come from here (Eurogamer, Edge, Metro, and probably others I don't read) and figured they might as well take them all out with one blow. They were probably going to make up some excuse as to why but don't seem to have bothered with that in the end. Now the Metacritic score will be as high as possible on day one and it'll be at least a week before it goes down. That's what they want, it makes perfect business sense really, even if it is a scummy th){kind=link}
The Thursday letters page hopes Starfield inspires a new wave of space games, as readers offer help for Armored Core 6’s Sulla and Balteus.
To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk
Buyer’s remorseThis whole business with Starfield reviews seems to be another example of Microsoft being too loose with its management of its developers. Someone sensible should’ve told Bethesda not to get themselves into this situation, but apparently Bethesda are free to do whatever they want. If that’s the case, why bother buying them? Microsoft could’ve saved themselves a few billion and just signed individual games up as Xbox exclusives.
Then again, Starfield is probably going to be good and certainly seems to have inspired a lot of interest in Xbox. Microsoft might be handling them poorly, but Bethesda was a much more sensible purchase than Activision Blizzard. Not only are the Call Of Duty makers stupidly expensive but all their big franchises are currently in decline.
If this year’s Modern Warfare 3 is not as big as usual I wonder if Phil Spencer and co. will begin to regret it all. $69 billion is such a ridiculous amount of money, I can’t help thinking there must be an infinite number of other things worth spending it on than Activision Blizzard.Mailor