So now anybody who wants to watch Crater or anything else is at the mercy of whoever owns the streaming rights to it who can, clearly, make it disappear forever just like that.

Nobody can come over my house and throw my DVD collection away

While it’s better for consumers there’s definitely been signs that it isn’t sustainable long term.

There’s some space for failure but it’s hard to make space for catastrophic failure. And honestly it isn’t a games industry issue, the only way you make significant room for economic failure of a product is to move away from capitalism as a society. Anyway this didn’t fail because it was a risky concept, it failed…

I wouldn’t recommend this so readily. If you buy it on Steam you’re locked into buying future expansions on Steam. The expansions frequently go on sale elsewhere so it can cost you more in the long run. You’re also adding one account system on top of another so there’s another point of failure there.

That’s the case now. It didn’t start being that way until the current generation though. The point the “fanboys” (which you seem to be one yourself) are making is that MS can hardly accuse Sony of creating the practice when they participated in it until very recently.

People on both sides overexaggerate how bad the 7th generation was for Sony. It definitely was a disaster at the beginning but they did eventually rally. But they were perceived as the underdog going into the 8th generation because despite the sales numbers people perceived 360 as beating PS3. A lot of people still…

Also if memory serves while the Wii had fantastic numbers in terms of hardware sales its software sales were a lot more lacklustre. I imagine a lot of people never got anything for it other than Wii Sports, which was a pack in title everywhere except Japan.

The word “defined” doesn’t imply someone is simply doing something, it implies they had a prominent role in creating the thing they are doing. You have to do some very creative interpretation to read it differently to him saying that they started it.

I’m not sure if complaining about the existence of exclusives is a good strategy for convincing people to let you create more exclusivity. It feels like a good chunk of the crap Microsoft has come out with over the course of this case has actually worked against them.

It is the best one but the focus is too much on Disney to really be considered an FF spin-off in my opinion.

Because Bungie isn’t remotely comparable to ActiBlizz? Destiny doesn’t move the needle in the same way Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Diablo, and everything else ActiBlizz has under their umbrella does. Microsoft has had plenty of other acquistions sail past regulators without much fuss. They don’t sweat the small…

I mean you can. There's plenty of original games that come out or AAA games that break the mould. Games that are also commercial successes. Season just isn't as good as the author of this article is making it out to be. 

Their primary issue seems to be a marketing one since this is the first I'm hearing about supposedly one of the best games of 2023. Which is a pretty bold claim to make considering some of the stuff that's released this year already.

Thing is even the “good stuff” in XIII is thoroughly mediocre. It just seems better because of all the crap you have to drudge through to get to it. Is it more enjoyable than the rest of the game? Sure. But so is watching paint dry. And the story only manages to get even more nonsensical in the endgame.

Bold to assume they'll ever manage to procreate. Especially since they're Japanese.

OoT in my opinion just hasn’t held up as well as MM. Playing through the 3D remakes of both makes it even more obvious. So much of the game just feels very bare bones. It’s just a lot of big empty maps. MM on the other hand is teeming with detail and things to do. The one thing I’ll give OoT is it has a lot more…

While I think AI presents a problematic economic issue this argument is inherently problematic. Because if you go looking for a payday for Disney for your art being used to train their AI then what about all the artists whose art you trained on? You going to give them their payday?

FFVII has Ocarina of Time syndrome. The first 3D entry and also the first introduction to the franchise for a lot of people. So it has huge credit in the bank of nostalgia. Despite the fact they’re not as good as the games that came later on the same console. Majora’s Mask is better than OoT and FFIX is better than…

The problem isn’t really the linearity, a lot of games are linear, and I think there isn’t even a problem with a largely linear RPG. FFX works despite being nearly as linear. The problem is XIII makes no attempt to disguise it. It doesn’t give you even the illusion that you’re doing anything other than running in a…