Fine.

How can ANY company have record results and lay people off??

That should be illegal.

Oh look. A company has to cut fat, yet pay the top guy millions of dollars for this failure instead of sacking his ass.

Article says they can cancel their preorders for cash back up to 30 days after the game’s released. Why would you preorder something, then not pick it up for 30 days after it came out?

You sound confused. Either it was reported incorrectly or you’re reading it wrong. It says you can pre order, get your game, and you have 30 days after the game launches to get a full refund. How is that bad?

honestly..it seems fair. if you pre order, its kind of assumed you are going to buy on or near launch, if you wait a whole month, then it becomes store credit. I cannot imagine a situation where this would be an inconvenience for me. i’m all for outage and stickin’ it to “the man”, but this seems reasonable.

Am I missing something? He says “30 days after RELEASE”. Not 30 days after you place the preorder.

I don’t think there was one, officially.  Your trade credit would just sit on their books as a financial liability.  This is probably to discourage people from just leaving $5-10 in trade credit sitting around on Gamestop’s books for months and months.  Makes their bookkeeping cleaner.  

Battlefield 1 also showcases the immense futility of infantry charging entrenched machine guns.

Battlefield 2 intro still gives me goosebumps.

“I’m a piece of shit and I don’t care” is what you just said.

most people also don’t post multiple times in the same comment field to passive-aggressively defend some washed-up youtuber desperate for attention after outing themselves as a compulsive liar

“I am of the opinion you should be able to joke about anything you want as long as it’s funny, but in this case, it really wasn’t funny,” he said. “I really don’t have an excuse. I mean, what can I say, I just really love the feeling of taking someone for a ride.”

Hey ignoring it worked for that time when I think I had syphilis. Just went away after a bit!

and ordered him to cease the sale (users had to purchase Elusive)

He’s not saying that Twitch knew anything. He is saying that big-time streamers such as this dude who use platforms such as Twitch are essentially putting on an act for viewers; they are only showing a part of themselves to the cameras and viewers. So yeah, we only see what they want us to see.

I’m not sure you understood the context here - she was saying that we only see the side that they (they being streamers/public personalities) want us to see. There was no implication of Twitch here, and nothing disingenuous. 

I assume the “they” in this sentence pertains solely to the performer, not Twitch, nor the “in-crowd” themselves.