I don’t disagree, but I had meant that with the technology and how it’s being used by an increasingly antagonistic business executive class against the working class to control people’s likeness, art styles, voices, etc, when it’s pretty well known the executive class don’t contribute to projects creatively but assert…

Over the years, Siri has gotten much better at recognizing what I’m asking for and responding accordingly.

ARROW MUST ALWAYS GO UP! ANY DOWNTURN IS FAIL!

I get the appeal for a studio to think that if a live service games catches fire they’ll make bank. But that is a very big if. And while I also understand the inclination to branch out into other genres, most of these studios should probably stick to what works for them. Bioware made their name developing amazing singl…

A smart exec would say, “Hey, this is popular in this moment and won’t be by the time we’re done, so maybe we should make something different.” But then again, when was the last time you heard about an executive that could see past the next fiscal quarter?

I’ll hang onto the memories of 2017-19 where I was playing it daily. Every decision made onto OW2 only fortifies I made the right decision to uninstall it.

Gamers were a mistake.

Fucking gamers jesus christ

This pandemic revealed how much work is done by individuals showing up to do their job.

Drop a million dollars in my lap and I might be able to retire a few years early. Drop a billion dollars in my lap, and I can live like a king for 500 years. There is absolutely no use for a billion dollars except for taking food out of the mouths of millions of people. It’s not enough for them to be rich - others…

Ha this was EPIC. Glad to see it.  I know when I try to learn a complicated game, like DOTA 2, smurfs absolutely destoyed the new player experience.

Because the game at one point was very fun.

Because it’s a single player game and over time people become done with them and move onto other stuff? And it also didn’t review as well as their previous games and less people are into it.

Not everything is a live service, it’s ok to be done with a game.

Yeah the pointless factions is pretty much a thing of the past now. You can join guilds together and do most group content together. Think it’s really only a matter of time before they are done away with completely. And rightly so, the faction “wars” have been so damned forced since vanilla that it’s just plain silly.…

Oh boy! Been a long time since I had a good old fashion Warcraft Lore Argument!

Sherman, set the Wayback Machine to Jan 24, 1995 and the OJ Simpson trial....

Because they’re not artists. They’re tech dudes who think they can take something squishy and messy like art and recreate it with cold engineering. They don’t actually understand what art is, why people make it, or why people appreciate it.

Gamestop really just needs to pivot hard at this point and just become what they bought: ThinkGeek. Thinkgeek succeeded in a marketplace where their shipping and general site were garbage but it worked because they provided products nobody else did. So of course gamestop got rid of that site, smushed it into…

Holy shit, just when I thought I couldn’t dislike Phil Spencer any more.

Dude’s idea of success is ‘buy all the competition’ rather than, you know, actually investing in his own developers to make better games.  Sure buddy, try to buy the company that has consistently trounced the shit out of you in console sales…

Such an obnoxious interview. He comes across like the world’s most eager-to-please groupie (like a more pathetic version of Penny Lane in Almost Famous). Letting his buddies interview subjects read and edit their interviews before publication, intervening to secure a 5-star review for a shitty album by his buddy Mick…