I’ve definitely played some betas that had cash shops, usually they say it was mostly for testing the cash shop functionality, and whatever you buy carries over to the full launch. The only major difference here I think is the length of time that the game will be absent (I’ve never played a beta that had a cash shop…

It’s definitely become a useless terminology beyond saying that it’s not “finished” which even that doesn’t really matter that much anymore with infinite games like Fortnite existing.

Wow hearing the name WildStar is a blast from the past. Was it really trying to peel off WoW’s hardcore base? I was definitely in that 99% category, having never gotten into WoW but curious what this whole MMO scene was about. So I got into WildStar’s beta and enjoyed myself decently, but I remember feeling like it…

So, did Steam delist it or did the devs delist it as precautionary compliance?

I continue to feel like this embrace of the Way or w/e will not be the end result, if only because it would be a really weird unsatisfying narrative track for Filoni to spend all of Clone Wars and Rebels making it pretty clear Death Watch’s religious extremism is bad and then saying “well they were right in the end!”

“an embittered ex trying to bypass due process” by.. formally pressing charges in court and not saying anything about it for 2 years until NBC discovered it when he had to appear in court? Sounds exactly like due process to me.

Heck even some AI devs (though a minority) don’t like calling it AI. Whatever the technical distinctions and specifics are within the field; the popular conception of the term is how people understand it, and is why we’ve got tech reporters writing about the coming robot uprising because they told a chatbot “act scary.…

Maybe they’ll just use his career for one of the lootable corpses.

Citing bullying is weird because yeah, I’m pretty sure that the real violation here was single letter emotes, which Twitch is very strict about. A small streamer I follow had a “W” emote that got removed for that reason, and so they resubmitted it except now it was “UU” and that was approved.

I think it’s the fact that he’s a film critic that makes this astounding. I can buy that someone so far removed from all media maybe hasn’t heard of it. But if your chosen career path is to watch films, of which Tetris is one of the few games that has been around long enough and has enough cultural footprint to be…

Steam? Probably a few months.

At the risk of being tin foil hat-ish; someone like this I always get suspicious if they were intentionally trying to become a “cancel culture” martyr to get in on the grift or something. I mean, you get kicked out of a judge position and immediately go and start persistently harassing a group until you end up lifetime…

While I generally hate this phrase, this is one place where “online is not real life” is applicable. Public online venues (where most ‘riling up’ occur) by nature are not really a place where personal conversations can be held in any meaningful way. Presuming someone is wanting to have a conversation in good faith is…

Yeah, my read on Star Citizen has been that it’s not a scam as so many accuse (at least, not intentionally) but the product of an undisciplined visionary who for once has no budgetary restrictions and no suits telling him he has to stop adding things and ship something already.

Patches break stuff, ah well. But there is something very amusing that a game whose supporters have insisted on it’s playability for so many years was unprepared for *gasp* significant amounts of people actually playing.

It really does feel like a lot of TV reviews these days are written as though the show is finished and we’re looking at the final product. Very weird.

Honestly it’s still sort of surreal that we have a video game adaptation that isn’t just passable or decent but honestly great by any standard, not just by video game adaptation standards.

Gonna be honest, this is a pretty wild read that makes me think the division caused by the ending will not be mitigated at all. Because to me, I was thinking during the finale: “Wow Joel comes off even worse here than in the game.” Especially because the show, for the most part, has avoided Joel being depicted as a…

My read on this is less that they want to polish things up (though I’m sure they will) and more that they want to move it out of what is going to be a pretty competitive quarter between Zelda, FFXVI, SF6 etc. Possibly before the backlash they thought it would be able to hold it’s own and now aren’t so sure.

Normally I would say that this reeks of legal trouble, but considering the Seinfeld official twitter linked to them at one point I’m pretty sure there weren’t lawyers banging down their door. However, I can see if they’re hoping to monetize this someway with like, merch or something, they might feel they need to…