This makes no sense. The game is gorgeous and huge and actually fun and engaging to play. Why isn't it doing well?

Because your condescension and air of superiority coupled with your complete ignorance as to the costs of the matter needed a reply, and why not utilize snark and some facts to both make a point and poke fun at your massively inflated intelligence?

Congratulations, sir, you have discovered... the joke.

I much prefer Robbaz ("The King of Sweden") and his scrotal hunting.

I imagine you don't fully understand this, but games retail for $60 apiece.

I had friends in DCUO. I had a league, and people I talked to and played with nightly.

He's not talking about piracy—he owns the game. He's bought the game. He's purchased a license—why should the delivery method matter?

Perfectly okay.

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Well, I don't play online much, and don't play PC games that have DRM in them. But the matter is most games will run just fine single-player, whereas all movies have this ridiculous unskippable warnings (and now previews!) which are ubiquitous and obnoxious.

I still have a PS2—this is not the issue. Memory cards, controllers, cables, TV inputs, etc, all of this is a massive hassle. The point is not that I can buy (or still own) a PS2, it was the willful removal of PS2 BC, and the lie that it saved a significant chunk of money, that pissed me off (and about a third of…

Cut down on controllers, peripherals, memory cards, multitaps, power blocks, attachment cables, and TV inputs.

Prospective solution: release a PS3 adapter that includes the PS2 Emotion Engine chips, and allows full hardware-based BC for all PS2 games. Charge $50 for it.

The really funny thing is pirated copies don't show these idiotic messages, so they only exist to irritate paying customers. Apparently whoever keeps approving these are from the Committee for Eating Lead Paint.

That's the worst part of trying to eat healthier—nothing healthy and filling is a buck an item.

Glad to know from both of you that it's not just a St Louis/Missouri thing. I don't like it, then, I don't like chocolate shakes, so that's probably why.

Wait, there's a place down the street with better food for a buck an item? Where the heck do you live?

My wife's from St Louis, as are most of her family and friends.

Darn androgynous names... we really should, as a society, come up with more gender-neutral pronoun options.

Oh, I can see the point she was making, and I'm not saying it's not often valid—but I think there is quite often justification for it. Sometimes it's just played as a cliche to make the movie/book seem more "with it" (ya jive turkeys), and in that case it's B.S. And sometimes, yes, it doesn't work. But I don't feel…