Well, I was discussing this topic with some other posters and the thing you have to realize that that youtubers, professional or otherwise, don't actually necessarily have easy to find contact information stored in an easy to find way. Especially not ones at the middle range who could still be valuable sources of…

That's an interesting anecdote. I would guess that at the very least this incident left you appreciating the developer a little extra than you would have otherwise eh?

Pretty sure that's not what I said. All I said was that it probably costs more to come up with and enforce a policy to prevent losses to this sort of fraud than a developer would stand to lose by not validating the claims at all. Never said anything about whether or not this should be a source of anger, but if you…

Remind me again, when did metal armor become soft flesh?

That's a clever solution that would work. It has to be communicated to the youtubers of course, but a boilerplate email is no trouble.

So basically you are saying that because a fat guy who was payed to do something awkward and silly didn't cover a significant amount of ground with his weird rolling means that a super-athletic adventurer can't.

A small outfit probably isn't going to have employees dedicated to this purpose and there are generally pretty strict rules about what kinds of duties you can give to interns and this would likely fall outside of that criteria.

Ok, but arranging that video call still takes time and just hooking up employees that have to deal with such requests with the proper equipment and relevant software and such is already a higher cost than the loss of a few licenses.

No, I'm not. I'm talking about the realness of someone's video which attempts to make an argument about the realness of Dark Souls. I enjoy Dark Souls for its departures from reality. I just don't think people should slam unrealistic things with unrealistic counter points.

The thing about traditional phishing attempts that makes it easier to safeguard against them is that they are usually acting as something with a little more of a legitimate presence than your typical youtuber with a popular channel. Youtubers frequently only have a free email account that they rely on and you really…

How do they know which skype account to contact? If it's one they get from the email, then it could just as easily be the scammer's account, and not everyone lists their skype contact info publicly.

To test your theory, I went to the first popular youtuber I could think of... which for some reason was egoraptor

The moral of the story? Game creators need to be more careful when they send out copies of their games. A lot of people in this world would very much like to have free games for various reasons, and some of them are absolutely willing to lie and deceive—emailing with shifty eyes and forked tongues—in order to pull off…

One point Franklin kept emphasizing is that she sees The Sims 4 as it exists today as "the base game." As with past Sims games, it's currently a bare-bones foundation upon which other things can be built.

This is the problem with carrying on two conversations on different threads at the same time. This one isn't about realism, it's about whether or not something makes sense in the context of the gameplay.

No one ever said rolls were really used in real sword fighting though, now did they? You seem to have completely misunderstood what I'm saying. I'm not saying that combat rolls are realistic, just that demonstrations like this are poor arguments against them.

Facepalm of truth. Have you actually played the games? Rolling doesn't turn you around, it just sends you into the rolling animation and when you get back up you are already facing the right direction.

You are the one who needs to take your pirates swashbuckling with rapiers and lightweight cutlasses fantasy behind. For the period we are actually talking about, sword fighting was much cruder and more forceful than this sidestep dodge parry shit. Kotaku even did an article talking about how real sword fighting…

Except you know, what we see in that gif is an obvious non-attack from a stance of precognition that the other person is going to roll. It's moot.

No no, I just find your pre-emptive criticism of other people's criticism of criticism to be petty and annoying.