Dunno, if I like the setting (which seems to be the case going by ancillary material), gameplay, and story, I’ll play it a couple of times like I’ve done with other co-op PvE games. And like with some who have both PvE and PvP, I might dabble in the PvP side due to my friends.
Overwatch 2 WAS supposed to be the PvE…

yeah, I dislike PvP, but would’ve been interested in a story-focused PvE mode to (potentially) play with friends.

I kept being told “now it gets good!”. It does indeed getter better with the expansions, though it’s a bit uneven. The one expansion that really grabbed me was Shadowbringers, aka the third expansion.

Personally I feel it’s good as it is (but I do think that their ARR duty reworks really have oversimplified them, losing some cool mechanics). That said, I don’t have the time to spend hours and hours trying the same thing again. I just want to hang with friends, and experience story, interspersed with the duties and…

Oh fuck off Kotick

Oh kindly fuck off Zaslav

The conversation is about how they’re being accused of forcing studios to make things diverse. What David Bedard said ties into the official quote. Consultations on character accuracy IS part of their services and he brings marginalized people up specifically to counter the idea that better marginalized characters…

No, what SBI said is that companies come to them for an extra polish, as well as consultation for their already existing characters to see if they read properly (this even includes a finnish company like Remedy checking that their white male american character consistently comes across as intended)

I remember way back when we had forums with moderators who properly enforced rules and ensured good behaviour. Somehow that just ceased to be okay. Enforcing rules these days, letting people who break rules or act badly face consequences, is treated like an overreach. It’s really weird.

Might be some WIP build that hasn’t gone through approval with all the decision-makers and on all platforms yet

The most immediate find I can give you is this article

What. The. Fuck.
It makes sense. Natural evolution from the bullying we got, just transferred to the the digital space. But it’s fucked up, and aided by predatory in-game sales practices.

The game is out? Honestly all I knew about it is its name and that it had a big budget with high expectations. Nothing else.

Edit: skimmed a video. It’s... kinda beige. That’s my biggest takeaway

yes

thank you! Exactly what I was thinking

right?

I don’t understand? She’s just expressing confusion about why people feel like the line is so funny. I mean there’s no reason for her to want people to treat her movie like they did Morbius.

Problem is, the money just goes to just as bad opportunists. It’s not releasing the money to greater good. It just stays within a system of horribleness, funding horrible things.

I mean, I play a couple of f2p live service games. Literally in the middle of playing one. The one that comes to mind where I missed the ending was Kingdom Hearts UX. Trying best as I can to get through Nier Reincarnation, though I think I missed a ton of content I would’ve cared about, though the main story seems to…

Maybe we’ve just played different games? The ones I’m thinking of have missable story content, power creep that you need to keep up with, a community you need to keep up with, or they end and you missed the last part of the story because you weren’t playing at the time (or it’s just a dissatisfying end).
I’m not saying…