DebatableRaccoon

Of course not, that’d be madness!

True though I can’t even begin to understand how marketing justifies its price when a common “fact” that goes around is that the marketing step accounts for 50% of the total game’s budget. Like, how does it cost that much?

The problem is that it’s actually not as expensive to make a triple ehh game as people are led to believe. What’s expensive is overpaying all the greedy executives and their unearned bonuses. More people need to be aware of this.

Still sounds like more fan-forward writing than what ND thought was a good idea for Part II.

This is why we don’t support games with malware in them.

The bar was on the floor already but they still felt the need to bring a shovel.

ActiBlizzard is a lootbox.

Can’t say I know either. It’s definitely tongue-in-cheek and I don’t believe ActiBlizzard has managed to make their game fun on purpose for a second. That said, patching out the fun would imply they know what they’re doing when I’m unconvinced they’re good enough at game to purposely make a game tedious.

Must have been an accident. Next patch will get right on fixing that

It’s a bold assumption that parts would even be available to buy.

A staple of modern journalism.

There’s absolutely concern about Steam if you’re looking at the discourse. Personally, I hate the Steam launcher and have kept having problems with it ever since they changed the design to be more Baby’s First like everyone else has done (not just taking about launchers here) but the Steam launcher is still better than the others, which is infuriating.

Because a monopoly is a company that operates in their market unopposed. In this instance, it’s not Steam’s fault the opposition kinda sucks (or doesn’t quite aim to be a direct competitor in the case of GoG) but the argument is still there that Steam is sitting as the only distributor for PC.

Personally, this is why I keep wanting to root for GoG, Epic and such. Monopolies are dangerous to consumers and the markets they operate in. Right now, Steam is being surprisingly effective at remaining a “good guy” but there’s a lot of concern even among Steam fans of what the landscape will look like in a post-Gaben world. Setting the PC gaming market up to have Steam as the only option when that inevitably comes to pass (touch wood that that’s no time soon, of course) could spell a certain level of disaster in a world where the anti-monopoly law-makers have shown to not really care about upholding that standard.

Edit: missed words. Never type when struggling to keep your eyes open kids!

I think the top one that comes to mind is Days Gone. I can’t help but feel like we’ve played completely different games when seeing reviews for it from the likes of IGN, for example.

No Sega. Bad Sega. Don’t make me get the spray bottle…

Thank fuck for that.

Nintendo really is the Disney of video games.

No, but we aren’t exactly going to be mourning either. Almost no-one wants SS to be Arkham canon so it’s no great loss… Aside for the waste of Kevin Conroys last possible contribution to the franchise.

It feels like the correct answer would be “no” but I honestly don’t know enough about Tencent to weigh in.

Where’s my shocked Pikachu face? Now just for these people to learn infinite growth also isn’t sustainable and we might finally be getting somewhere.