Without knowing the details you should not assume they were forcing when they said they chose it for themselves. You cannot make that claim when all we know is they had a choice. Given that Respawn had the choice to use Source for Apex and UE for this, it’s ridiculous to assume that EA forces their studios to use…

Are we even sure she’s voicing her?

Your outrage against perceived outrage is tiresome. I didn’t detect any outrage in the article. You’re just assuming there’s outrage when there was none.

EA studios aren’t forced to use Frostbite. They are just incentivized to do so. BioWare has said that it was their decision to use Frostbite. It’s covered in the DA:I chapter of Jason Schreier’s book.

So what if millions of people use steam? By your logic no one should ever open a store to compete with big box retailers. You’re ignoring how business works to make nonsensical arguments. I didn’t claim that my scenario is exactly what is happening here. But you’re making assumptions on exactly what’s happening here…

Welcome to Kickstarters. You act like kickstarters have never been letdowns. 

It’s not as simple as that because you’re ignoring margins. If one retailer is taking a higher cut then it’s not necessarily financially viable for you to sell through them. You have no grasp of economics and have a hard time understanding the simple examples I have to illustrate a point and just dismiss them because…

You act like more exposure is all that matters. If it was then they could give their game out for free and it’d be better for them. If they make more money from a more limited audience that is a fine business decision. Your argument basically likens to the whole “do it for the exposure” bullshit that’s been said to…

Valve doesn’t have any exclusives? Where can I install Artifact for PC? Or Dota 2? Or GS:GO? Or Sekiro? You think just because Valve doesn’t pay for exclusives it means they don’t have exclusives? What a joke. Steam has a lot of exclusives and that’s not just counting Valve games. By your logic Destiny 2 and Black Ops…

My point was simply to refute the idea that exclusivity has no positive impact on gamers. I specifically said in most cases it’s probably true but there are cases where games wouldn’t exist without exclusivity.

What kind of dumb logic is this? We are talking about benefit to gamers overall not individual gamers. By your logic if RDR2 got ported to PC, it wouldn’t be a benefit to gamers because some gamers don’t own PCs. If your argument is that a game existing as an exclusive vs not existing at all doesn’t benefit people…

How does it cost Google money? Them not earning money isn’t the same as losing money. It cost them nothing. It’d be like saying that Zelda BotW not being on PS4 cost Sony millions of dollars.

People need to stop saying that there’s zero benefit for the consumer when a game in exclusive. You don’t know what the circumstances are to make a blanket statement like that. Sure maybe it’s true most of the time but not 100% of the time. For example, Bayonetta 2 would not exist if Nintendo didn’t offer to fund it.…

I’ve bought my fair share of collectors editions and I generally agree that most are bad. But I find Blizzard’s CEs to be pretty good. The one I got for Diablo 3 came with a cool diablo skull that has a soul stone usb drive with Diablo in it. That’s pretty neat. The cross game bonus cosmetics most collectors edition…

I think people are being alarmist. Planeswalkers can be attacked and a lot of damage spells can target them. Plus the new uncommon planeswalkers are pretty weak. Some of them don’t have + loyalty abilities. They are gonna basically be like those artifacts that have limited charge counters. 

Not really. You’re giving a shit about other countries surpassing us to go to the moon but you and the administration are ignoring education which is a bigger issue. NASA was given the directive to achieve it by any means necessary, but they don’t control the department of education, which is slashing budgets left and…

No they meant Java Applet. You see to be mixing up applets with applications. Java applications written today aren’t Java applets.

It’s odd that people care about other countries building bases and mining on the moon but don’t seem to care that they are surpassing us on education which is ultimately a bigger problem.

It’s funny how you keep trying to act like you’re walking away but keep trying to get in the last word.

Says the guy that said trollish bullshit like saying my friend should do an AMA and pretending that I made up the fact that I have a friend that works there. That might make sense if you were a child but as an adult, I have no reason to make up that kind of stuff. I don’t care if you don’t believe me. It’s odd that…