“Exclusives are bad, reeeeeee” ~ Kotaku in a PS4 article, sometime last week

Ah, back to the days when it was a “silly” policy and not now that it’s a war crime against humanity according to Kotaku now that Sony is doing it.

It actually wasn’t initially, RDR1 was the game that Microsoft and Rockstar had their big falling out over though. Microsoft told them they couldn’t release any more free DLC.

Oh shit, the gaming press actually calling out Overwatch? Is this Bizarroworld?

I distinctly remember a deafening “meh” and zero fucks in the 360 gen, combined with rationales like “well, you have to pay for Live and you don’t for PSN, so of course they don’t want crossplay, can you blame them?”

More like they pretend it didn’t happen now, dude, and that Sony not wanting to do crossplay with XBox One is like Hitler kicking a puppy, but it was okay then because it was Microsoft.

Yeah, let’s not mention every time Microsoft blocked cross platform in the 360 generation. *rolls eyes*

Or even pettier, when they made them shut down the FFXI cross play servers the day the game went back compatible on PS3? Do we want to talk about that now, or does it not fit in the Microsoft are pro-consumer…

Can we get some motherfucking handwringing and clutching of beads now about how Microsoft doesn’t support cross-platform play?

You still got schooled hard.

Bozell and Grossman’s presence means nothing of value will be discussed.

The SWATter needs to be charged with First Degree Murder, just to make a statement out of him. Give a few of these punks life sentences and that will cut down on it.

This article is why I haven’t been able to take any of Kotaku’s faux outrage over Battlefront II seriously, you scream about the loot boxes until they’re in a game you play.

Is the use of Gwenpool and Squirrel Girl as heavy handed and obnoxious as I expect it is?

Is ATGames’ emulation for Mortal Kombat III as awful as it’s been in the past? For people not in the know, special moves don’t work on the earlier Firecore emulatiors that AT uses.

Jeff Kaplan, also known as Tigole Bitties from Legacy of Steel in Everquest, says toxic players are forcing them to divert resources to deal with that toxic community? The irony is hilarious to me. Fuck Jeff Kaplan. He, along with Alex Afrasiabi were 90% of the toxic community in EQ that almost killed the group game…

The ballista was a giant tactical mistake on the Lannister’s part. Just having it on the battlefield was a big enough mistake, now all covered caravans are priority targets for Dany’s ground forces, because you don’t want them to manufacture, transport and install ballistae at potentially more hardened locations.…

The murlocs don’t want to kill anything, their aggression is misread as violent.

Kotaku is so smug about it behind the headlines too.

On the other hand, I’ve felt like the cross platform play coverage this week has been aimed solely at fellating Microsoft while ignoring their abysmal treatment of cross-platform development when they were the market leader.

Pass this off to Luke so he can write a clickbaity story about how “Nintendo Has A Weak Excuse For Not Allowing Trophies.”