Just consume product. Don't use critical thinking. Demand immediate satisfaction. Buy product because of brand loyalty.

wow i’m shocked that a remake of a high-quality show was mediocre. who could’ve predicted this

You know how when you were a kid, there was that one popular thing that at least half the school was into, despite the fact that it sucked?

The point of an executive is to convince investors to give them money they don’t deserve, so that they can pay other people peanuts to do all the actual work.

Step three - laugh at all the investors whose money you wasted, grab your golden parachute and abandon the company before it actually goes under, and then go get hired as an executive for a different company.

Risk? In business?!? Say it isn’t so!

you understand these decisions better when you remember that modern capitalism is about control, not wealth. 

Okami, Breath of Fire and Dino Crisis would be splendid.

I love how the State of Play presentation shows a tone the original actually had.  It wasn't angsty or brooding, a characterization that was never accurate but somehow became Cloud's reputation.  Yes it has serious moments, but I really like how much they are looking to capture the actual charm of the original.  This…

Every game will make more money if it’s multiplatform. Companies don’t use exclusivity to sell more software. They use it to force people to buy into their ecosystem.

SE could sell a copy to every person on the planet and somehow still be disappointed at their performance.

Sounds like a convenient smokescreen to distract from the fact that Foamstars was recently exposed for using AI art.

I mean, they went full-bore on NFTs last year, so makes sense that they’d follow all the techbros onto the next grift.

Steam, maybe, but I see much deeper discounts on physical games for consoles. That doesn’t even take into account clearance, BOGO, used games, etc.

Indeed. And notice how those digital games still cost that $60/70, even though they don’t have that cost of producing a box or disc.

Capitalism only works for society’s benefit when it has substantial and effective competition (which is impossible in nearly all industries when you have state-enforced monopolies via intellectual property laws). The problem is that capitalism’s core goal — the accumulation of capital — is directly at odds with that…

Look, let’s be blunt about things.

I see the sentiment “we were promised a future where technology allowed us to be free of tedium and grunt work so we could pursue art and culture but what we got was technology making art while we labor in the gutters for ever-decreasing pay”. Hard to argue with.

I blame business major cunts who’ve never had any…

Funny how it isn’t the corpo pieces of shits who decided it would totally be cool to jack up the prices to use their stuff aren’t in the chopping block.

At least with movies and TV shows, the threat of piracy kind of forces companies in charge of providing them at a competitive price to compete with it.