I’m willing to give them the benefit of doubt this time, but I have a really strong suspicion that this is not the last time we’ll read about them being embroiled in controversy for doing new potentially shady things.

I’m not saying I have *never* seen someone complain in the comments about wanting a link to purchase a game, but it happens so rarely that I can’t remember any examples.

That’s not a problem because the two complaints are not mutually exclusive. People can want seamless travel around a planet rather than loading a square grid “sandbox” AND they can also want to move around large open areas faster.

You're 100% correct. I didn't mean "girl games" as in games made specifically for girls like Barbie or Bratz shovelware. I'm talking more in context of the gender split for those games vs other popular game series which often skew more towards a male playerbase which you also mentioned. 

I’m confused. People are having their minds blown because of... Something Bethesda has been doing for like 20 years? I mean it's slightly better now due to the more powerful hardware and that they actually bothered to make the collision meshes closer to the actual objects, but this has all been done since at leasy TES…

Well it’s no secret that the “cozy game” genre such as this, Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, dating sims, etc. often have a larger share of woman/girl players than other genres. Sometimes the publishers market more heavily to that demographic and othertimes they don’t.

Yeah it’s kind of a bummer Zelda essentially gets “fridged” 5 minutes into the game because she’s apparently not allowed to exist as anything more than a trophy to be won for any mainline Zelda games. 

Yeah, I am aware of Cadence of Hyrule, I was actually just playing the original Crypt of the Necrodancer the other day lol.

A "Disappointingly Impotent" status effect would be rather amusing. 

I’m fine with that. Two solid titles seems like a good point to transition to a fresh take on the series. Better that then going along the route of extremely similar games with minor differences every couple years.

That makes it sound even worse. So not only can you join all factions, even the ones opposed to each other, but when you join any of them it’s essentially just “Go to X and shoot people” no matter what?

Yeah some of the stories are absurd and unbelievable but this one isn’t even that. The entire story boils down to “person escapes death because they happened to be awake when something dangerous happened”.

There is the obvious truth that it’s simply more dangerous to be a person of color when interacting with cops than being white, and the other obvious truth that the douche in the post went out of his way to out the guy for no reason, approaching max levels of Karen-ness for reasons that can at best be described as…

I’m guessing it’s either because

Ah that does make sense. The way these articles are written make them difficult to parse sometimes lol. 

I’m a bit confused here. So they get fined 4 million but can get 2 million forgiven if American Airlines refunds the affected people which could be over 2.5 billion?

“The director, who would like to see his version of the 2016 movie released, says he was once rumored as a candidate to take over DC Studios”

Your worst case scenario is likely the best case scenario, and your better case scenario is basically a pipe dream. 

First regarding the headline, you can’t really call it a “free trial” if you have to pay any amount. Even if it is a negligible amount.

Oh I 100% agree, I don’t go to these games for the main story either. But the way the statements here were made is something happens near or at the end of the game that totally changes how the game is, and for the better, but you have to devote 40+ hours to the main quest to do that.