Yeah, it’s extremely disheartening. And a huge part of it is that numbers start becoming meaningless at this level. Yeah, $50 million is “a lot.” But it’s relative. It’s not actually a lot if we’re talking about punitive measures to correct behaviors at a company that was recently purchased for 69 billion, and which…

I think it’s going to be wildly successful because it’s a too-big-to-fail situation. Continuing their profit stream of just shitting out CoD and Warzone DLCs and updates to Candy Crush is working quite well for them. A lot of it is already gaurunteed marginal revenue. This is the fastest selling Call of Duty ever,…

Unfortunately, $50,000,000 is not even a slap on the wrist or a tickle of the foot to these bastards nor the media who hawks them. Now they have Microsoft wealth, they’re rich beyond comprehension. That’s not to say I’m not glad you’re reporting on this, but I’ve become so jaded to this shit happening in the games…

I’m asking for a second chance, because I will never do anything like this again, and I never have in the past.

“I have never in my 13 years of playing Dota 2 ever done anything like this, and when I realized it felt wrong and was the wrong way to go about things, I stopped it, sadly you can’t undo a mistake you made,” he wrote. “I’m asking for a second chance, because I will never do anything like this again, and I never have…

Mason: “So that’s it? After 13 years, so long, good luck?”

I hope he's never allowed to play again. Play stupid games

Yeah smurfing is bullshit and should not be tolerated.

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.

Massive user-base.

Not just countries. There are several states (Mississippi, Virginia, Utah, Arkansas) that require porn sites to check your age before accessing the site, sometimes by sending them a photo of your driver’s license. These laws are hilariously stupid, and the only thing they accomplished is encouraging people to learn…

The worse part is that there was a wave of account suspension going off yesterday on Art channel that properly labeled their content with this new policy. And now even thought they are reverting it, they somehow still enforcing the suspension on Art channel that were using it properly...

Makes sense on the surface, but this would inevitably lead to a firestorm of enraged parents followed by advertisers pulling out.

It was mediocre and seemed like it was tacked on pointlessly until they started to actually support it with additional classes.  By the time they stopped adding new content, you could actually believe that people other than the Normandy Crew were capable of fighting back.

The funny thing about that observation, is that originally players didn’t want multiplayer in ME3. It felt tacked on, and many people felt that it was a super weird move, and strictly for money, back then.
It’s only after it was shown to actually be pretty good, that people warmed to it.

Good. It’s such a shame they wasted so many resources on this that could have gone into making something worthwhile. 

It is so weird that when people actually want multiplayer, studios can’t deliver but when no one actually wants it they’re suddenly ready to tack it on.

Good. One less live service money pit to watch die a slow death. I’m glad that they could acknowledge that this was going to hurt their bread and butter single player games and made the right call.

“what went wrong?”

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