One of the things that Square needed to do completely reinvent XIV was to stop selling and running the game so they can focus on the rebuild without having to worry about the upkeep toward a game build that will soon be nullified. I don’t see EA halting the sales of the game and I don’t know how people who own the…

I agree 100% and I know where in the game you are talking about! I was beginning to think the game was too easy... but building up the network in that area is proving to be quite the challenge.

FF14's reboot was exceptional though, not just because of how well it paid off in the long run but because of the massive steps they actually took to fix it, far beyond what i’ve ever seen a developer do in any other situation. They must have felt genuinely ashamed at the management level even to take such drastic…

Not to mention they have a history of abandoning a game that had some potential(Andromeda) so you could forgive people for thinking that they’ll do the same for Anthem.

I personally have no interest in Anthem unless they REALLY turn it around. I’ve heard people extolling the virtues of the recent NMS update, but I have…

Jason, I normally complain if you cancel a game with your mystic powers.

This is such a weirdly optimistic article when nothing Bioware or EA have shown in the past year related to Anthem (or other properties)—imo—inspires this level of confidence.

No game is beyond saving. I still have egg on my face for saying that Final Fantasy XIV was beyond saving after its rocky launch, predicted it would go free-to-play, and then slowly fade into indifference and shame as Square Enix moved on.

It almost makes you wish they had Pokemoned out Halo 2 into two games; one being Master Cheif’s campaign, and one being Arbiter’s. Then they could avoid the “fuck why am I playing as this Laguna guy?” feeling where you’re constantly getting ripped out of one or the other character’s story.

Yeah, the smash cut to credits at the end isn’t great, but I guess I’ve just come to terms with it.

Yeah, until he abuses the ticket system to get people banned for “targeted harassment”.  C’mon you can’t tell me this guy wouldn’t do exactly that.  Just like he would probably file copyright claims on videos of people hunting him down.  This is how Twitch streamers act,

I’m paraphrasing but some people used to say that life exists as a way for the universe to have the senses to see and experience itself. At this point I can’t help but think what is the universe’s equivalent to gouging it’s eyes out. 

I’ll take it. Making any entitled/privileged douchebro or any person in a sanctuary suffer consequences for their actions is always a plus, imo.

Thanks :) I only spent a few months on this one, but I’ve had the pleasure of working on every Halo project since H4 (I agree it’s the weak point in the bunch, though I really did like the Spartan Ops as a concept). Yeah as best I can tell we’re basically peers, age-wise, I still remember firing up CE on an xbox and…

Awesome ;) I worked on it for several months before moving to a new project here. I hope you enjoy!

The funny thing is Halo 2 has some of my favorite campaign levels. Basically, I think the Master Chief levels on Earth and when he first arrives on Delta Halo are a ton of fun.

I would have more sympathy for the viewpoint that the “student” (she’s actually an alumna now) in question was looking for intellectually challenging books if the other Common Read books were actual Man Booker prize winners. But they’re not. We’re talking about stuff like Ready Player One here. The singling-out of…

I’m cracking up right now, I’d not known that he’d said that until now. THANK YOU for enlightening me.

This reminds me of when Nicholas Sparks said he doesn’t write romance novels and that he was actually the natural successor to Hemingway, Shakespeare, and Euripides. (I’m 100% serious about this.)

asdkfjdk my GOD woman, get your head out of your ass. Sarah, you write shitty teen romance YA, you’re not out here writing the next Booker Prize novel. Of course a college junior, who is presumably in her twenties and you know, at university to challenge herself academically, wants to read something with more…

How would Dessen even find this criticism?