“All who gain power are afraid to lose it.”

I mean, they have a very easy excuse; Kiwi farms was directly responsible for criminal activity. Swatting is illegal. Harassment is illegal. I would assume that Cloudflare falls under Section 230 protection in that as long as they drop their protection from sites shown to be doing something illegal, they can’t be held…

Honestly didn’t think about those sources. I might give those sites a try.

Legit question: if they’re unauthorized to be selling keys, where’d they get them? If it’s people buying the game legit, then selling them, is there a way to get a resale key from steam? Wouldn’t it just be cheaper to buy it from steam in that case? I’ve avoided those resale sites because I assume that it cannot…

For many artists, it’s not just a job. It’s personal. Imagine if someone paid you to paint a mural on a wall and you threw yourself into it only for the one that paid you for it to bulldoze it before it gets unveiled. Sure, you have the money, but that’s going to hurt.

It depends; what do you define as “Art”? Is it only art when a person starts with an entirely blank canvas and creates the image by hand? What about art using other media? Remixes and such? Is hand drawn art “better” than CG art that a person sets up and renders?

Frankly, it should be made illegal for payment processors to deny service in the  U.S. to any business that isn’t illegal in the U.S.

The first thing I ever ordered online was a bunch of clearance series on Rightstuf. This makes me very sad.

They can be all ages. Hell, one of the originals (Surge) is a military lieutenant. 

The best Arkanoid clone I ever played was on one of those discs.

Remember “100 games!” Shareware disks for PC?

Agreed.

A company can do whatever it wants with it’s own products. Saying “It should be illegal” is the exact same as telling Twitter they can’t ban people for saying toxic shit.

I have respect for Yoko Taro, creator of Nier, for just outright saying that he puts female characters in skimpy clothing just because.

I think it’s a great idea. More games should do this instead of outright censorship.

I don’t play it either; I don’t even like that style of game (the isometric “click” types).

Everything I’ve read/heard about the game says that the actual gameplay is really enjoyable, and if you don’t care about PVP it’s fine to play without a penny.

He can’t. That’s why DMCA works; the people it gets filed against can’t remotely afford to fight it. So companies can just use it as a delete button.

Yeah, I mean.. way back when OW2 was announced, they said it would relplace Overwatch, with all OW2 content being universal. 

About the “No Skill” I have to disagree. My brother was an absolute GOD at these games; I personally saw him beat Aliens vs. Predator on one quarter.