this site is so negative now. even the compliments are backhanded. 

laws are just codified morality—or at least a moral that enough people agreed with at the time. i’m not defending it. just correcting your assertion that EULAs are new and untested. whether or not they are truly a social harm, or out of step with contemporary morality, has yet to be fully tested. personally i hope…

IBM introduced the first EULAs in the early 1980's. They’re not “new”. And while there are grounds to contest them, they are no different than any other commercial license—License being the operative word. You pay for something, and in exchange you agree to the terms of the sale. Your purchase locks you into the…

piracy of commercial works that are no longer available is ethical piracy. extracting files and presenting them on your youtube channel is less ethical. if you want to hear the music, play the game or watch a gameplay video. cracking open commercially available software and sharing files on a commercial platform like…

digital property is pretty well defined. every game comes with an EULA (End User License Agreement) which more or less defines, in exacting detail, what can and cannot be done with the software. 

are you for real? sonic games have stunk for awhile. i’m glad to see them try something new for the franchise. 

i think these latest games have been by far the franchise’s most successful though, no?

Origins is a great looking game built on an incredible open world. But... it’s a jumbled, broken story that sort of fades in and out of comprehensibility (no one bother explaining it to me, i know the story, it’s just poorly told). The voice acting though is terrific. Bayek’s voice actor is now a personal favourite of…

one of my biggest takeaways from looking at steam’s sales figures at the height of “steamspy” was that even the daily top 10 purchased games don’t necessarily sell astro-fucking-nominally. so if it’s a low sales week it’s actually not an enormous challenge to crack the top 10—and even so, cracking the top 10 is…

i’m not sure who to trust: the former Xbox exec or you.

well, they’re right—if the gamer/viewer don’t want what’s available, then the service doesn’t have value. it may have a dollar amount, but if the consumer doesn’t care then it doesn’t matter how cheap it is. no one wants to buy “nothing worthwhile”.

as someone else mentioned, creating scarcity in the decks encourages people to buy more cards over a longer period of time—this isn’t solely driven by a profit motive, but also to maintain a funding source for keeping the entire game in print over a longer period of time, ultimately reaching more players.

“they took umbrage with the noir power fantasy and future-centric scope that’s proliferated within the genre, even by Gibson himself, much as I have.”

this looks kinda bad

nope, cgi has advanced to such a degree that it’s quite possible to gin up a sequence like this from concept to execution in a couple of months, given the appropriate staff numbers, time and money.

it’s clear to me, from actually playing the game, that GRRM had a truly dramatic influence on its writing. granted, i *know* that he didn’t write the scripts or anything besides the world bible he generated, but it is obvious that his involvement raised the bar for FromSoftware’s in-house writing staff—the script is,…

“oh no, games that are actually engaging. please. stop.”

while i acknowledge that this may not be the case for you, i’ve discovered that, a lot like learning a new subject in school, you can continue to condition your brain, and learn new things in adulthood as well. i used to suck as dark souls. just like i used to suck at reading (in second grade). but i wanted so badly…

aren’t all games technically fantasies?

i really loved the first two games, and absolutely hated the final one. game gave me migraines. so if they return to the original OG formula i’m all in. if they just want to do another Batman + GTA i am out.