Overwatch 2's New Features and Blizzard's Strategic Moves
Digital Coffee: Gaming BrewFebruary 14, 2025
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Overwatch 2's New Features and Blizzard's Strategic Moves

In this episode of Digital Coffee Gaming Brew, host Brett Deister discusses the anticipated release of AMD's RX 970 XT graphics card, featuring 32 GB of VRAM and its implications for Nvidia's 5090. Brett also reviews various gaming microphones, expressing a preference for established brands over newcomers. He covers Ubisoft's Q3 struggles and their unsuccessful ventures with Ex Defiant and Hyperscape. Additionally, Brett discusses announcements like Overwatch 2's new perks and features, the potential EA acquisition of Blizzard and Activision, Crytek's layoffs and shelving of Crysis 4, and the benefits of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 supporting mods. He concludes with opinions on the state of gaming industries and previews upcoming releases such as Killing Floor 3.

🔑 Key Themes

  1. AMD RX 970 XT graphics card
  2. Microphone recommendations for gamers
  3. Ubisoft's gaming strategy criticism
  4. Overwatch 2 game updates
  5. EA's missed acquisition of Blizzard
  6. Crytek layoffs and Crisis 4
  7. Gaming industry's target audience shift

🌟 3 Fun Facts

  1. AMD's RX 970 XT graphics card is reportedly coming with a notable 32 gigs of VRAM, which could offer a competitive edge if priced right against Nvidia.
  2. Overwatch 2 is bringing back loot boxes and introducing new features, including a unique perks system and a new game mode called Stadium.
  3. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is set to support mods on Steam, allowing players to customize their gaming experience further.

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And welcome to a new episode of Digital Coffee Gaming Brew, and I'm your host, Brett Deister. You please subscribe to this podcast on all your favorite podcasting apps. Leave a five star review. It really does help with the rankings and let me know how I am doing. But this week we're gonna be talking about A MD RX nine 70 xt. The supposed announcement that may come is supposed release date plus with an interesting 32 gigs of VAM on the graphics card. And what does that mean for the 50 90 and everything else? We also got a microphone to talk about and more my recommendations of what microphones to get. I'm fine with these gaming companies make microphones, but I don't trust them enough as opposed to road or Elga or Beacon or those types of microphones. Those generally focus on sound and. NZXT and all those others don't really, so they're not, even though Gato uses Lewit to make their mic. So that's a company that well reversed in understanding how to make sound. So we'll talk about it, talk about the interesting design, and then we'll be talking about Ubisoft and it's apparent, double down on things that shouldn't be double down on. We're gonna be talking about Kingdom Come Deliverance Two and the new surprise announcement, or to me a surprise announcement. Also be talking about Overwatch two and its new features, including perks. Something returning from Overwatch one and Stadium and my feelings on it. And then we were talking about how EA almost bought Blizzard and Activision in. In a way, and then you're talking about the layoffs from Crytech and why it's not great, but it's their own doing in a way. And then an interesting thing about Bobby Kotick and what he thinks or what he perceives as a lawsuit being fake and it being pushed to u to have unions in his former. Publisher slash developer, which makes more sense. I live in California, so I know they're pro union. I know the government is way more corrupt than they're telling you, so I tend to believe him a little bit more, even though he has done some I some questionable things about how monetizing their games. It doesn't mean everything he says is wrong. Also, the killing floor too. We'll talk ab. I'll talk a little bit about that and we'll talk about avowed and the reviews coming out and why a lot of these developers are and publishers are leaving. Men like me, and men that are traditional, more masculine, leaving us behind for better or for worse, and why that probably isn't a good thing. Anyways, let's get on with the show. That's good. All right, so happy Friday everybody. Happy Valentine's Day. If you actually have somebody, or Happy Singles Awareness Day for those that actually don't have anybody because. It happens. We all struggle with different things anyways, moving on to a m DRI RX nine 70. XT is reportedly gonna have a 32 gig. A bit. Graphics card is reportedly coming, but with a catch. It seems like this is mainly for ai specifically for that, but if I was a MD and I was looking at what NVIDIA's troubles have been going on, basically that they're 58 and 59 were a paper launch, they weren't as great, and sometimes the 50 80, the founder's edition. As its base clock it didn't do as well as it should have, and there were some times where the 7,900 XTX beat it out, which is not a, that's not comforting for Nvidia, but if I was smart, I would look at that and be like, look, okay let's pivot again. Let's maybe not launch this, the 32 gig version in March, but let's launch it as our flagship. Yeah, just with more memory as the same as the 50 90, but let's put at like a thousand dollars price point. So in that way, you undercut by a thousand dollars, the 50 90, and if you just barely go toe to toe with it, like you're almost on track to beat it. You beat it because. Basically 50% price reduction from the 50 90 and you're actually doing a better job or doing relatively well, or a far cheaper card is the best price point. Like I know that they said they're going to actually get out of it, but right now NVIDIA's not doing very well. People are very mad at Nvidia specifically because when it launched, and I actually. Actually launched pretty close to my birthday the last, the end of January. Actually, the day before my birthday last January, I knew what was gonna happen. 'cause there's too many reports saying there's not much stock. There's not much stock, they're not gonna have much stock, they're never gonna have enough stock. This is going to all the S capitals gonna buy. And guess what happened? There wasn't enough stock. All the scalpers bought it, or most of the scalpers bought it. And so it became a paper launch where everybody was joking to the YouTubers. Hey you basically got all the stock from Nvidia and from the third parties, plus the third parties are way more expensive, so A MD really does have a shot to take on Nvidia, and I know they said that back away, but I would actually seriously change my plans right now because right now. Nvidia is pretty vulnerable. Now, given I actually own stocks in both of 'em, so I'll be completely honest. So I don't really care which one actually does it. I just want the best price point and the best product for the for gamers because that's what we want. We all want the best thing for us. So I'd say A-A-M-D-I would rethink your. Strategy on not doing it and actually do put a 32 gig ran for gamers. Not just ai, but for gamers to actually utilize and maybe have your own AI too. Nvidia does it too, and you, they can utilize that too. It's not a bad proposition. It's actually a pretty decent one, and you should seriously heavily consider it. Now given the nine 70 is gonna be with 16 gigs of ram, which we'll put it around the 50 seventies, and we'll see how well they do with each other. Now, it's not gonna have the more expensive ram that Nvidia has, which is the GDDR seven. It's gonna have to still have the GDR six. So we'll see which one does better, who optimized it better. And it is usually NVIDIA's a lot pricier 'cause they do all this stuff. But alright, so the latest news is that AMD's RDX nine 70 is going to be revealed on February 28th. So it's within a few weeks. It will be launched in early March. So if you're looking to get a new graphics card, you're frustrated because Nvidia won't actually, doesn't actually have any graphics cards. This might be your best bet to actually get one, given the fact that. The A MD ones are actually pretty competitive when it comes to per to performance. A lot of times it really hasn't been, so it's been, they traded blows, but it hasn't been good enough. So we'll see what the RDA four does and FSR four does as well, and see how well that helps it with it because. Whether we like it or not, the future of graphics cards is going to be within ai, and it's gonna be with optimizing that and making sure your frame rates are as high as possible. So we're not ever going to get away from this. NVIDIA's already pushed it really heavily a m D's probably gonna start pushing it a little bit more, and that's where we're gonna see it. A MD usually has the more cost effective cards, also with more open sourced options. So it generally, they're usually better as with their VRR system between g SY and I forget AMDs off the top of my head, AMDs one because it didn't it didn't ha you didn't have to have optional, or not optional, but extra hardware equipment within your monitor to run it. And then Nvidia had to do more compatible. No one wanted to do their G Sy. 'cause every time someone did it, some monitor company did G sy. You like raised the price like $200, which was insane. Alright, moving on to NZ xts new microphone. It actually looks pretty nice. I'll give him that. But. I just can't recommend these gaming microphones. It, the reason why is because a, when you get like the gaming headsets, the microphones are terrible. Usually they peak all the time. And these companies aren't audio companies. Yeah. They make great parts and everything, and they make some cool stuff, but they aren't really as good as say, like a beacon mic or like an Elga wave mic or even their dx. XLR mic or road or anything like that. So I really don't recommend these. They'd be good as long as you know what you're doing. But a lot of times it's just the gain's not there. The peak level's bad. It just doesn't do as well as it can. That's usually why I highly recommend, if you want a more streamlined approach, is to get like the Beacon mic, because the Beacon mic. It comes with the necessary software that they have that does a really good job of making you sound better. Now, Elga, I just released the new Wave 2.0 software, which also helps as well because then you could easily switch different types of programs to different audio channels and help yourself be a little bit more organized in that because it is. Difficult to do that now. Road did release a few months ago, the beta version for their own through the road Caster Pro two, which I'm using and it's pretty good. But Delgado's kind of got him beat with the new Wave 2.0 in that regard. But I get physical faders on the road, caster Pro to so teach his own. I just, I can't recommend this stuff. It could be, it looks like a really good. Wide capsule, but it's A USB or looks like A-U-S-B-C to USBA cable, which is okay, it has a good light and everything has a little knob, which I guess is good. It just, and it also goes for $200, so you can get the beacon mic for two 50. And it's got a really good software baked behind it. So I, it's just, if you're gonna go with like audio gear, go with the com companies that do audio gear, not the companies that do audio gear, water cooling. Your PSU, your case, like all this other stuff, and the audio is an afterthought because that's not what they do, because audio is an important thing, especially if you're a streamer or you're trying to get into stuff, because if you have terrible audio, no one will listen to you or they'll turn it off because you have terrible audio. So I would get something that's geared towards that or something that can help you create really great audio like beacon. Like El Gado, like road, like these will all help you in the long run. This looks cool, but you don't want to care about what looks cool. You wanna care about what's going to make you sound good. Alright, moving on to UBIs Saw for reports of 52% drop in Q3 net bookings in line with guidance. So they're not doing very well, which. Surprises nobody. But the problem is that they're doubling down again on open world and live service games. The problem is that ex defiant failed for them. They basically are shuttering that. They also are shuttered hypers. Escapee, which did not last long. They have skull and bones, which nobody really likes that much because people wanted, was a black flag, basically spiritual successor. And what they got was a. Dumb down pirate version, which you can do the rare one and see a thieves instead and have a much more enjoyable time. 'cause it's a little bit more, it's just better and it's better with friends too. Or you just go back to black flag because why not? So the problem with Ubisoft is not the types of games they want to make. It's the people making them. The problem is that they made poor choices in their design, their character design, and just how it was implemented, and it seems to be this formulaic way of Ubisoft doing it, which yes, you want to have standards, you want to have some formulas, but you can't have everything very formulaic or it feels stale. It feels old, it feels not very fun. The last assassin Creed, Valhalla just felt like it was a chore to play instead of a joy to play. And that's what we really want. We want it to be a joy to play, a joy to discover things and not a chore to do it, or we're beaten over the head about how terrible we are, which a lot of gamers are having issues with. Now, some of you may not care, and that's totally fine. You can play whatever you want. It does not hurt me. You can use your money however you want. That is completely up to you. But when we criticize publishers, developers for not doing something that actually caters to the majority, they lose money. They don't do very well. They shutter studios. This is what happens when you don't do very well, and they just haven't gotten the hint yet. And I think it's because they actually were. Our own US government was paying them to do this too. I'm pretty sure there was a grant or a fund to fund Marxist ideals, which is why it was like so prevalent in the United States right now and why it was so just like just driven into the ground with everybody and everybody was like, we don't like this. Stop doing this. And this is probably one of the reasons why Ubisoft is paying the price, and you always have to have. An example for other publishers to follow or for other publishers to at least understand that we don't like this. But the problem is a lot of 'em aren't getting it quite yet. And so I have a feeling there's gonna be a lot more pain in the gaming industry until they get the hint and go back. To marketing your games, to your customers. Not looking for obviously looking for new customers, but not alienating your old customers 'cause you just don't like them. If you don't like your customers as a marketer, then don't work in that industry. It's as simple as that. We don't need you, or even if you hate them, who cares? Market the game the best you can. It shouldn't matter. The problem is that they keep on doing this, and so people will keep on going. I'm not buying your games until you learn your lesson. And if it takes a while, so be it. All right, so moving on to can you come to Learns two has announced that they're going to be supporting Mods for Steam, so it basically means that maybe you'll be able to mod out the gay stuff if you want to, and there are mod out some of the other like annoying things that you may not like about it in the game. I don't have it 'cause personally I, it was weird the character development. Changed between the first one and the second one. It was a little weird for me, so decided not to do it, but it did really well. I props to them for basically getting back all their development costs 'cause they already sold over a million. But I think this is a good step in the direction 'cause basically just lets people play the game they want to play and I'm fine with that. And it goes around Nexus mod, which I. Basically I do not recommend supporting that company. That company's weird. I keep on saying that they're inclusive, but they're really not, because every time someone says they're inclusive, they're really actually exclusive. And the fact that there was a mod that basically changed all the American flags to the progressive flags that I'm like, what in Spider-Man Two, I think it was. And I was like, what? Like it's not inclusive. You should have taken that down. But no, that's fine. But this is actually really good. I actually really commend them for this. This is actually a really good idea because the funny part is that mods actually help your game last longer. 'cause people create their own stuff and they do their own things and they add their own things, and so they basically extend the life. That's why Skyrim. Has lasted as long as it has. That's why Battlefield Two lasted a long time, which EA doesn't understand, or they're finally slowly getting it. That mods extend the life of your game if you allow your audience or your customers to two, make something for your game. It brings more participation, which basically brings it an investment into the game. Even it's a small investment, it adds some type of bond to it for gamers, and then they'll play it more often. They'll tell their friends to play it because they have this cool mod, and then it cascades into that when you cut mods out. People will play it for a while, but once you stop support the developer, people don't generally play it as much anymore because they're like there's nothing new coming, so why does it matter? But if you have your audience creating stuff for it, that takes the pressure off you to create more stuff and allows you to focus on other things. There is a lot of benefits for mods. It's just the problem is a lot of developers and publishers. Don't get it. They don't see the long-term effect on it or they don't, they don't see the long-term effect it can have on it, but history has always said it has a positive impact on it. Battlefield too lasted a really long time because of mods, and a lot of good games came out of that too. So you actually get, you actually can find great talent from it. Skyrim created a lot of great mods. Fallout created a lot of great mods. Atomic fall is basically fallout London in a way. So it created that for it too. So you created more developers, you could actually fleece the talent for your own development team. Like it's dumb that they were done away with. It made no sense. Except that they wanted more money. 'cause then they could just basically get people to come over to the next game. But it didn't always guarantee that loyalty is guaranteed through how much you give, and you don't feel like you're being nickel and dime when people feel like they're nickel and dime, they don't want to buy your game anymore. And you can only do that so many times before people are like, I'm done buying games from you. And it's gonna happen more often until they figure out. Giving more goodwill does work. Live service games people don't like very much. 'cause it feels like it's a chore. It feels like you're just trying to get more money out of us and it's not as fun. Alright, so Overwatch two had this big announcement this week for several different things. It was quite a bit one. Overwatch Classic Goats Meta was not the best. Meta to play against is eventually Coming Perks, which is an interesting system, is coming in season 16. Basically, it gives every hero a minor perk and a major perk, and it changes the way the game's played to a certain extent. Obviously, people will figure out which one are the better perks and they reset if you switch heroes, so it. It cuts down on the hero swapping. That has been pretty relevant within Overwatch two. They also have a new game mode stadium. It kinda looks like more of a Moab type mode for it. They'll have new maps, new hero, Freya, which basically is a bounty hunter, kinda like almost a little more keen to like what DIA three had in a way. Crossbow and stuff. So it looks all interesting. My issue is the pronouns were very strong in the announcement, especially one of 'em that was she they any, and I'm like, I don't even understand what that means. Can you please stop with the pronouns? I don't care. Just tell me what the game is about. You don't have to put pronouns anywhere. I can see with my eyes what sex you are, but all in all. It was good. And the return of loot boxes, which I think is a better idea. I think the battle passes really just did not resonate very well with a lot of people because it just felt like it was expensive and Blizzard was intentionally making it expensive for no reason really. And Loot Boxes at least gave you a chance to earn some things. And you could also buy stuff. You could still buy the Battle Pass. They're not getting rid of it, but Loot Box gives free users a little bit more of a. Way of getting skins that you actually want. 'cause you get that loot boxes and the free and the battle pass. I think you'll obviously get more in the battle pass, but it should be interesting to see what happens. They're also resetting ranks it seems like eventually. And there's gonna be from. I think it's platinum above you could, it'll basically show off in your little banner what rank you are. So they're bringing it back again because everybody, that's what everybody wanted when they got rid of it. And it's just bring it back. It just feels better. So we're getting interesting stuff, but I don't know. I'm I wanna play Marvel rivals, to be honest with you. Alright, so apparently ea. Almost bought Blizzard Call of Duty and more so they actually had an opportunity, thank God they didn't actually have an opportunity. 'cause EA has a notorious way of eventually slow the slow death of killing their beloved developers. I'm like, can't you buy where? So it looks like they had an opportunity to actually do it, but they passed on it. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing. People think that they dodged a bullet, but Microsoft now owns them. So is it really dodging a actual bullet? Because Microsoft has not shown they're doing a good job either. And with all the issues that Blizzard has actually had over the years has lost a lot of goodwill of players. Bobby Kodak's view on monetization has been pretty piss poor not gonna lie. Call of Duty is just a nightmare now to play with because of all the weird skins that they have. It's just it's not the same game anymore. It's a weird game where it's there's these like crazy insane skins that I'm just like. I don't wanna play that. That does not look appealing to me at all. But here we are. But it's an interesting thing to see that EA actually did have an opportunity and passed on it didn't do. It might have been a mistake for them. I'm pretty sure Blizzard may have dodged a bullet on that one. May not really sure about that one either. But we'll never know. 'cause this is all about what ifs. But it is very interesting to see what actually happens. Transpires with all that. But here we are. Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard. It's now part of Microsoft. Let's see if Microsoft can write the ship. I don't think it can. I think the ship just sailed on that one. But more bad news is that Cry Tech is laying off 60 people and shelving crisis four. So we're not actually not ever gonna get a crisis game because they're just not doing very well. It looks like Hunt Showdown is not doing very well. Now. People are saying that aren't really listening to the community and they're just doing what they want, which is never a good thing to do. But you also take that with a grain of salt because it can be, there's, people just want unrealistic things. So we don't really know, but unfortunately there's going to be still more hemorrhaging within the gaming industry and it's just not looking very well or very good. Moving on to killing four. Three is coming out in March. Should be next month. Should be very interesting. So we got killing four three. We've got. Tempest Rising, if you love Command Conquers comes out in April. We got Doom. The Darky just comes out in May. And so all these games look like they're very just like traditional games made for their audience. 'cause EA doesn't understand that they can make a new Command Conquer game and it will sell well L. But no, they did the one and done Command Conquer remake, which sold pretty modestly, but it was just a remake. It was great that we got like a new version of it because that's what we needed, but they needed more of the games into it to remake it, like General's Remade, so it runs better on systems, like we needed that stuff, but it was a one and done thing and they haven't really done anything else with the franchise. The franchise is still technically dead. You've seen Civ seven has come out with mixed reviews. We've seen Microsoft do a bunch of things with their old strategy ips with age of the Empire, age of Mythology. So it's having a little resurgence. It's not doing terribly like before, but it's gonna, Beto, it's not very much, but killing 4 0 3 looks like to be just basically a throwback to the glory days of ho shooters, just like killing a bunch of things and. Not caring and blood and gore flying everywhere. It looks like it's gonna be a fun thing. We'll see. You can never really trust any game right now because even the games that you remember and love from old may not be the same ones you actually get, but I'm hopeful. So I saw this interesting article about Bo Bobby Codick says that Activision Blizzards harassment lawsuits were quote unquote fake. And this simply a plan to drive up union memberships. Now, hold on. I know we don't, he's not the best person to love. And granted some of the criticisms are valid, but it doesn't mean that can't be true either. Especially someone that actually lives in California and how gung-ho the state is about unions. It's probably closer to the truth than we think and especially since this new administration has come in and we've seen a lot of just fraud and waste, it's probably more than likely true that this, these lawsuits like really help push a union into Activision Blizzard. Now you can say unions are great to a certain extent, and right now modern unions really aren't great. They really just look out for themselves and usually the leadership and they really do stifle a lot of innovation. You can look at the teachers union isn't, does help itself out, doesn't help the kids at all. I'm not saying there's not great teachers. But they don't really help themselves. And unions are usually very pro Marxist in, in a lot of ways. Usually don't promote excellence. Just promote. Just to promote. 'cause it's your friend, it's your buddy, and you get a lot of stagnation. You get higher wages, but then you have to let go of other people because the higher wages, it just. Doesn't balance books out and they don't care if it's a good or bad year for the company. They just want their money. So it more than likely is true. Now, saying that there aren't there all this stuff, or all the terrible stuff didn't happen within Activision Blizzard, I'm not saying that could happen and very likely did happen, but. Not saying that these lawsuits couldn't be just a simple way of gin up union memberships, that could very as well as happen as well. Now, I know the gaming press and just most people just don't like him, but look at Overwatch two, even when after he left, they were still weren't doing a great job. They were doing a terrible job. They actually had to have Marvel rivals come in and completely trounce them for them to go. We probably should start changing things up here a little bit. We probably should look at six V six. We probably should look at bringing the LUT system back. We probably should look at perks and all this other stuff. That's probably why they're pushing it so hard now. Because what they've been doing has not worked. I have not really wanted to play Overwatch in a very long time. I actually just uninstalled it because frankly, it's just not made for me anymore. It's sad because. I love playing the game when I, when it came out, 'cause it was made for me and then they just went off this really weird trajectory where they pushed political ID ideologies, pronouns and stuff. And it's I just don't wanna see it anymore. Like I don't care. I care about like the hero and what the hero does and its abilities, but I don't care about it. Sexuality 'cause it's fake anyways. Why do I care about that? Anyways, moving on to a vowed. So a vowed is, looks like it's doing a pretty good job on its reviews from the gaming professionals. Doesn't mean it's gonna be a good game. We had Mr. Mattie plays who's basically said that this was not a good game and everybody else is look at a good game. It's got all our progressive values. I more than likely. Oh, I'm not gonna get it, but I'm more likely thinking it's not going to do very well. I really get door kickers too, to be honest with you. Or doing the Dark Angels. Very much. It looks like a very testosterone, very just, we know who our audience is. We know who to make this for, and we don't apologize for it. That's a game to play. This one. No. No. Which is the same 'cause I love obsidian. I still think Knightdale Republic two is one of the best stories they ever did hands down. I think Fallout New Vegas is amazing. I think Outer Worlds is a pretty good game. Not bad. Way better than Starfield and Hell, Starfield had spaceships. You can fly in outta Worlds two Did not. I think Pillars of Attorney are is another great game. And the second one as well. I think those are great games as well, but honestly, I just, the game designer or whoever, the director or one of 'em just being very political and very just racist against his own against white people and white dudes is really disconcerting and probably makes this a terrible game. So I'm highly skeptical. This is actually a good game because there's too many of these gaming journalists that actually like it. Because a lot of 'em said that Dragon Age Vegar was great, and that did not do very well because no one wants to pull Brava or do even be even get close to Brava or whatever that means, which moves into why a lot of the gamings aren't really made for me anymore. It seems like this weird push, which happened over the course of. Almost a decade now, I would say about nine years where we had like a really extreme push of one ideology. No one, like most normal people did not like, and it infected just about every industry you can think of. People didn't like it. We gave 'em a benefit of doubt and went to some of the movies, but eventually we stopped going to the movies because we're like. This isn't good. And then it affected the gaming industry slowly but surely. And it's happening here where I'm like I only have a finite amount of money, and if you aren't really gonna make a game for me and you're gonna start like pushing pronouns on me and a bunch of other stuff, I don't have to get your game. It's not a requirement for me to get your game. I'm okay having fomo. Please go do your own thing. But. I don't have to get this game. And it looks like a vows doing this. Overwatch two's doing this with their push for pronouns, especially with their own people. Like I said, the one of the people had, she, they and any, and I'm like, that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And she wasn't any there's bunch of no rings and everything. Ooh. But. Like I said, Overwatch is not, I don't think Overwatch two is for me anymore. I think Marvel rivals is for me, I think Delta Force is for me, maybe Battlefield six if they can actually get it together. I'm skeptical about mass effect five because of the Dragon Age, veil guard. Very skeptical about EV vowed. I think for RPGs, kingdom come, deliverance two is probably gonna be the G that game for this year, unless something. Surprisingly pops up. I think a vowed will do modestly well, but not good enough. 'cause, just because of the reputation of up sitting right now, I think it'll do modestly well. I'm not saying it will tank, but I'm not saying it's gonna be doing a good thing. I think there's gonna be too much of this woke or Marxist ideology being pushed into it, and I think it's gonna turn people away. I think that word of mouth is going to hurt its sales eventually. 'cause people want something different from this. That's why people are erecting positively towards doomed dark ages and not to this one. It's funny, it's made by the same publisher, Microsoft, but Id understands their customers obsidian doesn't because the old people that made a Cian great are gone. They're no longer there. So you're going to have issues with this. And if a lot of these developers don't do very well, Microsoft has no problem getting rid of 'em. You've already seen them getting rid of several of 'em. They will brutally cut if they need to. So if it does I'll be surprised, but hey, more power to 'em. If it doesn't do well, I'll be like, yep, sounds about right. And I do think games should be going back to who their target audience is and ca making a game for them. I'm excited for the Mel Gear, stink Eater, Mel Gear three remake or whatever it's called. That looks cool. I'm excited for some games, but most of the games now, I am not excited for whatsoever. And it's unfortunate because there's a lot of great storied franchises that I'm just like, not for me anymore. Pass Path of Exile two for me, the have four. Probably not for me anymore. Overwatch not for me anymore. Marvel rivals for me. That's just how it is. You're just gonna have to pick and choose from now on. It's not, I'm not saying you just have to take a political stand, I'm just saying. You're just gonna have to pick and choose which one's the right one for you, because these games are getting much more expensive. I think GTA six will probably be massive, but people will be very disappointed in it. But we'll see what happens when we actually get closer to an actual official launch date, because we don't only have that. So we'll see. We'll see. Thank you for joining Digital Coffee Gaming Brew. I really do appreciate it. And as always, please subscribe to this podcast on all your favorite podcast accounts. We have a five star review. It'll just help with the rankings. Let me know how I'm doing and join me next week. Let's talk about what's going on in the gaming industry. Alright guys. Stay safe. Get to the games that you wanna play that are for you and see you next week later.