Even if you are not an achiever, or someone who wants to build their own home, there are a few bits of content and new features that will make Hearthfire a must-have for any Skyrim enthusiast. For me, the new housecarls and the option to have a dog live at my house is enough to justify the 5 dollars.

lol, yeah that was probably not the best wording on my part.

11) You can skip all the house building, marry and adopt kids and live in the houses in the 5 main holds from the vanilla game. Hearthfire lets you add a children's room to the vanilla houses. I think it is much nicer than having to worry about your dogs or cows getting killed by a giant.

Finally Ubisoft, I can stop hating your guts for draconian anti-consumer DRM. I know this is actually old news, but it is good to see them make an official statement on behalf of the company.

Kickstarter and crowdsourcing in general is based on the premise that the crowd are taking the financial risk. I don't think it can or should exist with any kind of guarantees. This is why having a reputation or fame, or a team and prototype, is so crucial to advertising to a crowd. You have to be able to judge a…

Ok thanks for your input.

Good because it looks like Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo still have their heads up their asses. C'mon Valve, its time to get disruptive.

I think all modern TOS's have a general clause that says if you find any kind of exploit or bug, or anything that gives the player an unfair advantage, they should not use it. I think that is why I have no sympathy for people who use these bugs/exploits. Even though they are not explicitly prohibited, anyone with…

If you believe you don't have to play according to the TOS or within the spirit of the game, then you shouldn't be playing multiplayer games. By all means, be that selfish in a single player game, but when your actions have an effect on a community and a shared economy, you have to recognize that your entertainment is…

Yeah, I think you're right about this. I've seen so many subscription MMOs totally ignore or dismiss these kinds of exploits. This might be my new, favorite aspect of the F2P MMO.

Awesome. SWTOR failed to properly punish and fix early exploits and exploiters. That was very disappointing to see. I'm not playing GW2, but I'm happy to see ArenaNet isn't tolerating shitty player's behavior.

Seriously, promoting bullet-time mechanics? Good christ, no thanks. Bullet-time was its own genre of clone games for enough years, we don't need to revisit that, least of all in a great series like GTA.

Not surprising. MMOs are competitive social networks, there will always be a group of people who take it very seriously.

I'm sorry, I can't do it. This is the first conversation I'm trying to participate in with this terrible new commenting system. I'm done kotaku, please fix this while I am gone, adios.

Wow has always had single-digit players in the west. It is a common misconception that the "12 million people" are all actually playing together. About 6 million people play in the west, and about 5 million play in China, which goes through a separate company that Blizzard licenses the rights to. So there is no 10…

To be clear, P2P theme parks are dead. Sandboxes are still totally viable. Because sandboxes don't run out of content when you reach end game and sandboxes don't offer the same repetitive 5-10 rides. Player driven content is the future, its just a shame no one is paying attention to realize this. EVE is still making…

Hey, thanks for the invite, I am checking the site out.

As I read through comments, I find this system is irrefutable evidence that text should always be horizontal, and not vertical. I'm sorry, stacks of narrow paragraphs aren't visually appealing or accessible. I hope Gawker can fix or remove this system ASAP.

Yeah, I also have noticed a significant number of people left after the last comment system update. I really don't think this is helping or improving anything, least of all, conversation.

Oh god, please stop it. This comment structure is getting worse with every iteration. That is not how iteration is supposed to work!