And that’s the problem I have with articles like this, and a number of the comments that inevitably show up in them. The vast majority of people who are criticizing these games are doing so in a general and constructive manner. If they are particularly upset, it may contain swearing, but it’s about the game. Those…

If the publisher isn’t setting up an appropriate line of communication between the community managers and the developers to provide feedback and answer questions accurately, that is a problem in itself. It’s a matter of setting expectations appropriately; if you want to communicate with your community regarding the…

Which I said nowhere in that comment, you petulant child.

First off, I don’t preorder from these snake oil publishers anymore for exactly that reason. But as I noted in another comment, they go out of their way to make it exceedingly difficult to tell what a game is going to be like, and then often make changes at launch, or after releases, that negatively impact customers.…

Oh hey, maybe I don’t. In fact, I’ve got EA, Activision, and now Bethesda all on a blacklist to never preorder precisely because of the nonsense they’ve pulled in recent years. But you’re also ignoring that fact that these companies have increasingly made it difficult to figure out what a game is going to look like…

Dear Bioware, how about you start releasing games that are stable, complete, and aren’t trying to scalp people of money again, and try to build up some good will, rather than sticking your heads in the sand because “people are mean to us on the internet.” There will always be people mean to other people on the…

As someone with a real goddamn job who buys a lot of video games, I’m still incensed when one of them is released broken or with the gameplay skewed heavily to incentivize further purchases of microtransactions.  The saying “a fool is soon parted of his money” may apply to you if you think publishers (because I’m not…

It’s funny you mention that, because it’s opposite for me. I’ve had way more mediocre pizzas made at the local Dominos, whereas the guys at the local Papa Johns are always super nice and the pizza is always put together well. That might be because I eat there more often to the point that the employees remember me, but…

As someone who orders pizza a lot from the major chains, pretty much nothing they did is an actual deal. I’m 99% sure that Dominos deal is always active at my location, and the Little Ceasars thing is just because it’s their most recent promotional pizza. Pizza Hut routinely has coupons for large pizzas in the $10-11…

I really hope this doesn’t become standard practice for SquareEnix games.  Putting not only minor bug fixes, but three separate sections of the game in individual patch downloads is just really bad for both players with poor internet connections, and for preservation of the game as a whole over time.  One of the…

Agreed, people went crazy looking for the NES Classic Mini, but after playing on it for a bit, I got bored VERY quickly. Even the most popular titles like the Marios or Zelda games on it have better versions that have since been released, like Super Mario All Stars. The SNES one on the other hand has some truly…

This is exactly my problem with it. I was annoyed with Nintendo’s garbage online before, and when a game disconnected me randomly, it was frustrating, but at least it didn’t cost me anything. Now Nintendo has joined the other companies in demanding money for their “online services” except they didn’t bother to fix…

As I said, the game has them too, the DLC packs were just the most obviously blatant offenses. There’s a reason why Stardock preemptively tried to get the courts to prevent Fred & Reiche from being able to send DMCA take down notices against the game; because they knew they were risking infringing on the two guys’ copy…

Multiple races. They put up DLC packs (which appear to have since been pulled) for the Chenjesu and Arilou for the fighter part of the game before the initial release, and there are screenshots floating around of a conversation with the Zok Fot Piq, which look very close to the original race, use similar speaking…

According to the court documents, Stardock “kept them in the loop” by continually trying to license the original alien races and the like that F&R claim to own the copyright on, but were continually turned down.  It was only after Stardock tried to claim the right to sell Star Control I and II, and then put them up…

If court documents are to be believed, and I would certainly trust them more than anything coming out of the mouth of Stardock’s CEO, legal actions were underway long before any release date for Star Control: Origins was announced. In fact, it was noted that Stardock basically boiled the pot they’re currently stewing…

I don’t see anything in what you describe there that is scummy on Fred and Reishe’s part. They appear to own the copyright on the content from SC 1 and 2, and they announced a sequel to games they made. Assuming their claims are on the up and up, they did nothing wrong in announcing their game. Wardell on the other…

There is just no real logic involved in your statement (and how much the Sony one sold doesn’t say anything about how it was marketed, but how badly it was made). If you look at how Nintendo’s sites are designed for the NES and SNES classic, they use the styling from the packaging and advertisements back in the 80s…

99.9% of people aren’t buying it period, which is why it’s on fire sale already.  The people who did buy it are the hardcore enthusiasts most likely to hack it.

Oh really? I’m curious as to who the market is for these if not fans of the old games excited enough to pre-order every one of them, like, you know, myself. I can’t imagine the average teenager saying “Wow, these games look like garbage on the back of the box, I’ll spend $100 to try out something that doesn’t look…