Nope. If they backed through Kickstarter then they bought something and are owed something. It’s not a donation. Anyone who pledged through the website after the kickstarter ended really *is* just a donor, though.

My head just exploded. Consider me intrigued. Has Coates even written any fiction before?

Good for you! You’re slightly above the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel of internet arguments.

It’s inferior. Always. No exceptions. There is *always* a difference and 30fps is *always* worse than 60. 30 is *never* better than 60. Let’s not bullshit ourselves. But! The question is how much does it matter? Sometimes a little bit, sometimes a lot. Sometimes the significance is so minuscule that it could barely be…

Why is it wrong for people to be able to easily know about a 30fps cap and make their own choice? It doesn’t matter to you. Great. it doesn’t generally matter to *me*. Why must that information be *suppressed* just because some of us don’t care about it?

It’s clearly a straight-up ripoff of minecraft and that’s a good thing. I wish there were more minecraft knockoffs being made by big-budget studios. Minecraft should be a genre by now. Once upon a time every FPS was called a “Doom clone,” but we’ve moved past that now, and I hope someday the “Freeform…

Curious if you play Elite and, if you find it boring, how long it took you to get bored with it? I’m a relatively new player to the game myself, and have had a lot of fun with it, but I think I understand *why* so many people might find it boring.

Probably. It’s still something you have to back up at least a little bit if you’re going to post a headline about it.

The article is about ONE guy. Andrew Jennings. You can say that Elite’s “richest players are bored” if you want, but that’s not what the article is about and that’s not even something it implies. You’re extrapolating from ONE PERSON to make a statement about an entire CATEGORY of people. That’s messed up.

This is sort of true and sort of not-true, because before its release, Elite made a lot of lofty promises which it has not (yet?) delivered on. If it *had* delivered on all of those promised features, it would be a much better game and would also be similar in scope to the game that Star Citizen claims it will…

This is a great example of how subtle graphic design choices and better player cues could have prevented a disaster.

Corpses were a great idea. They add so much tactical depth that wouldn’t be there otherwise. It sounds like in the earlier versions of the game people just attacked the front enemy over and over. If this is your approach then yeah corpses slow the battles down, but there are *SO* many ways around this if you plan your…

You’re so right about this. When I read this article I had never played DD and at the time the naysayer arguments about heart attacks and corpses sounded reasonable.

Anybody played this?

It’s because games are not considered serious or valid media. Games are buffoonish distractions for children and man-children. Therefore any game which tackles heavy or contentious subject matter is automatically “making light” of the situation simply by the very fact of it being a game.

You can’t usually make big fun happy games out of them. But games are a great way to learn about hideous parts of history because games are systems you can explore, rather than narratives you must watch or read.

You’re kind of pointing at the key issue here: game sales often don’t cover the costs of development, support, publishing, marketing, etc. That’s for a bunch of reasons, including the fact that developers spend way too much money trying to compete with Hollywood, and end up making games which have to be astronomically…

The less “micro” the transaction is, the less wrong it is. A giant expansion is the least wrong way to do paid DLC. Thing is, by that point you could just as easily sell it as a standalone game, which is what companies should actually do. (example: Assassin’s Creed Freedom Cry was originally DLC for Black Flag, but…

Apart from maybe the free DLC, the methods you describe sound like the same thing you see for every AAA release, so it’s still unclear to me why Witcher 3 would do so much better in proportion to the budget of the game and the marketing budget vs other bigger games.

Now we just need to make, Idunno, 100 more of these costumes and we’ll be ready for the Best Flashmob Ever.