Now I definitely have to disagree with you here. There are some standout anime movies like the Ghibi films, and few like the second Card Captor Sakura film, or No Game No Life Zero, that were well paced and particularly emotionally resonating, but overall the ones I’ve seen REALLY feel like extended television…

Most of the anime movies I’ve seen come out of Japan have been pretty mediocre, but with overly flashy action, so I’m a little surprised Endgame did poorly.  Maybe the advertising there didn’t make a big confrontation with Thanos clear enough?  I’m wondering if the run time may be a negative as well.  A lot of the…

Nintendo has actually improved their reputation in my eyes with their change to be region free and (so far) not go out of their way to censor titles being released on Switch. Sony’s recent change has just made it so that I’ve bought about half a dozen games on Switch that previously I would have bought on PS4. As long…

I’m a backer of the game and the 2.5D style and what from the beginning looked like modified stock assets have concerned me from the first screenshots. Even after all these years of development and tweaks to the environments, all the videos have had places where it looks like the characters are walking in front of…

Exactly, while there are clearly problems with leadership and management at Bioware, I think people really underestimate the problems that come up when you’re working with bad tools from the start. Not only does everything take longer and feel like you’re fighting to get things done, but it’s upsetting to know that…

Reading this article reminds me of all the rumors and leaked bits of information surrounding the development of Final Fantasy XV. An insanely long development window filled with problems of indecisiveness, trying to create an entry from effectively a different genre with a tool set that was clearly not designed for…

That’s definitely appealing as well, but that was kind of a “oh, right, yeah that was coming at some point” release. An HD remake of a GBA Zelda was a real surprise.

Yeah, they basically copied the Nintendo Direct format, but then forgot that Nintendo almost always has a hype game or big update to a hyped game ready before they do one of these things. That said, this was even more boring than Nintendo’s last Direct would have been without the Link’s Awakening HD announcement.

It’s especially not living large once you take the cost of healthcare out of it. I’m making a pretty decent living at this point, but if my company weren’t paying a big portion of health insurance costs and that chunk was suddenly removed from what I normally receive, things would get way dicier and I’d probably have…

You know, when you talk about the time played, I get what you’re saying, but you’re also not taking into account the type of game they sold here. It’s entirely possible that those people with dozens of hours of game play DIDN’T in fact enjoy a lot of the initial content, but they slogged through it because the…

Whether or not you are vulnerable to that specific marketing ploy is not the point. And whether they are doing a bad job of utilizing that strategy by putting mediocre items up there isn’t the point either. The point is that they tried to do it. Failure at using properly using a slimey method doesn’t mean that they…

No, I absolutely did not. I said that if you are representing yourself on social media as a member of a company, rather than as a person, you should EXPECT to get comments back on the work you are discussing. And that you should respond to that feedback in a professional way, or stop representing yourself as a member…

Have you considered that you potentially are the one interpreting “negative blowback” as something worse than it is? You are putting words in my mouth that I have not said here to try to skew my responses as negative compared to others.  If you are reading my responses as defending people harassing and threatening…

I agree that it would be a hard transition, but if the idea that $60 is not enough isn’t a lie, then they need to do something different.  And by different, I mean other than manipulate people into gambling schemes and ruin games (and by proxy, the reputations of the developers making them) by making the design push…

It is astonishing to me how many responses I see to any remotely anti-developer/publisher comment that immediately accuse that person of being one of the minority that are sending personal attacks and death threats. As though anyone reading this site who cares about consumer rights or not getting screwed by a big…

Yeah... you’ve missed the point. My comments were on you saying the devs needed more sales methods because $60 wasn’t enough to be profitable.  Not a single thing you just said was in reference to that, so I think I’ll end the conversation here, as we seem to be having separate ones with you talking to yourself.

Tell me, who exactly here is defending vile, abusive behavior?  Seriously?  I just see the people like you blaming those with legitimate criticisms of doing it with no proof, in an attempt to remove legitimacy from their comments.  I’ve been getting multiple comments back telling me people should flip out at devs,…

Have you seem the mess that Anthem’s loot system is, and the pricing on their micro-transaction store? It’s pretty clear that they designed that game so that the farmable loot would look very generic, that the grind to buy the shop gear would be crazy, and that, along with the rotating shop (which puts pressure on…

People like yourself who are replying to almost every comment, regardless of context, are essentially accusing them of personal attacks or death threats against devs.  That is absolutely you building a strawman to attempt to invalidate their legitimate criticisms of publishers and studios, by claiming their opinion is…

I think you missed the point I was trying to make. If developers are claiming that they have to do all these extra monetization methods in order to profit on a game, when the price point THEY SET is $60, then they’re either lying to you, or they are gambling. If that price point is guaranteed to not make them money…