Microsoft just raised the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to $29.99/month, and fans aren’t happy. Many are canceling, some are calling for a boycott, and even Microsoft’s website is struggling to keep up.
Microsoft just raised the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to $29.99/month, and fans aren’t happy. Many are canceling, some are calling for a boycott, and even Microsoft’s website is struggling to keep up.
Back in my day we had split screen multiplayer
Still irritates me that modern games don’t have this. Surely it’s not that hard to implement in modern games.
And in the case of the master chief collection? They literally just… Turned it off. The code is there, it could work, but they say no.
If you buy it on Xbox, you can do splitscreen. If you buy it on PC? You cannot.
However, if you use alpharing, you can patch the game with literal kilobytes of code, and force activate splitscreen. It’s a little janky, but proves the code is in there, it’s just turned off.
Disgusting.
Yeah this pisses me off as well. And TVs now are much bigger and wider, too. Back in the day we’d split screen on whatever we had, which was more often than not an almost-square CRT with not much screen space to begin with!
I hate it, but it’s easy to justify from a dev perspective. If it’s switched off it doesn’t need to be tested.
Edit: on difficulty to implement - I’m guessing it’s down to the increased load from having to render twice on a single device, bigger higher res screens only make this more difficult. Likely needs to be optimised differently etc. I hate it too, I love couch co-op.
I mean, yeah I’d entirely prefer that too. But on a halo series play through you hit a wall with halo 5.