Agreed, a breakdown in cooperation/asset sharing between modders is probably the biggest potential downside.

Hopefully issues like that can be resolved, because I really like the idea of creating an environment that makes it easier for modders to be compensated for their work.

“Gamers furious over being asked to pay for things they want! News at 11”.

Turning a hobby into a profession is the entire point of charging for mods. If someone can make a living off of their mod sales then they are a professional, which is great because they can then spend more time making mods.

Also I don’t get why expecting to paid “when nobody told them they would pay them for its…

I honestly don’t get this line of thought at all. If someone makes a thing that you value and offers it at a price that is reasonable to you then why does it matter if it is a full on game or not?

Honestly the reasons you gave for not covering Titan Souls that made it into the article weren’t super convincing to me.

However I just read the complete interview you posted on twitter and I feel like the point you make in that about how it would look questionable giving a negative review right after a dev made fun…

My conspiracy theory of the day is that they asked players not to do this sort of thing because they knew it would kickstart the modding community as well as ensure the existence of nudity mods would be promoted thanks to articles like this one. This allows Tecmo to drive sales off the back of the perverted mods while…

Huh nothing quite like writing a stupidly long post arguing with someone and then finding out you (sorta) agree with them.

Stuff like people threatening to burn down the anti-gay pizza place is just vicious and insane and frankly twitter seems to amplify peoples latent shitty tendencies, particularly when it comes to…

From my perspective the amount of anti-SJ whining has dwarfed that of the people who wanted this changed.

I mean just look at the timeline, Ericka complains and the complaint is addressed by Josh Sawyer with about 2.5 hrs.

Exactly. This is great news if each campaign is pretty long, but a pretty raw deal if they are relatively short. (I think it’s pretty unlikely that each campaign will be as long as awakening though, it was relatively long for a Fire Emblem game, particularly due to all the stuff you could do on the side. I’ll be happy…

I think what is happening is they aren't marketing it against the same game on other platforms at all, the target audience seems to be people who want to play DOA5 but don't have a PS4 or Xbox1.

It's a little unusual because PC ports are usually positioned as the definitive version to try to get repeat sales, but it…

I haven't gotten to play Bloodborne yet but the multiplayer in Dark Souls feels very different from typical multiplayer, the lack of direct communication reduces everything to a weirdly charming pantomime. I'm not much of a multiplayer person but I always loved it in Dark Souls, so I'd recommend you start out online…

Wasteland 2 and Divinity are both fantastic, I've got 30 hours on Divinity and I feel like I haven't even gotten anywhere. I really need to get back to those but I just don't have the time for long session games right now (that and Pillars of Eternity comes out in like 3 days, which is conveniently right before the…

It will certainly be interesting to see how further developments in neuroscience impact psychology going forward, as well as to what extent genetic and epigenetic factors can be tied directly to behavior. (Particularly epigenetics, as that is something that would be much easier to manipulate).

Anyway regarding Dark…

Fair enough, there is clearly a gender bias toward certain types of games for both genders, I just see it get boiled down to "girls play this, boys play that" a lot which is way too broad of a generalization.

I don't know much about the SC2 scene (mainly because I'm terrible at it) but from what I've heard they have a…

On a related note I recently saw some stats of gender breakdown by game and a pretty substantially percentage of a lot of the AAA games playerbase were women. WOW and pokemon were both ~40%, Diablo and Skyrim were both 30% etc. So clearly women aren't exclusively playing puzzle games and life sims. But when you look…

You can pick up a beta key on G2A for relatively cheap, although that may be against the terms of service, I'm not sure.

https://www.g2a.com/heroes-of-the-…

You can buy a DK2 right now if you want one. (although allegedly the consumer version will be out by the end of the year and that will probably be cheaper and more advanced).

https://www.oculus.com/order/

Haha excellent, that will keep me busy for a while.

I started reading that earlier this month! I haven't gotten very far in it because things are real busy right now, but I have loved what I've read so far.

What other books of Murakami would you recommend?

I think it very is interesting how the first few years of gaming has such a lasting effect on peoples taste in games.

I only had handhelds for the first few years and I feel like basically all of my taste in games can be traced back to the stuff I was playing on the GBC and GBA, despite the fact that I mostly play on…