I do not condone hacking any hardware that’s currently being supported, but when hardware is discontinued and the storefronts are shut down, when you cannot legally buy the things in a way that supports the people who created them, as far as I’m concerned it’s open season on modding.

I’ve always firmly believed that if your faith is easily threatened by a moment in pop culture, then your faith was never a strong faith to begin with. 

I mean, you’re not alone - lots of people have been voicing your exact concern since the earliest days of F2P mechanics.

“If you ignore the bad stuff, there’s good stuff” is the sort of appraisal that can apply to basically anything that isn’t 100% garbage.

Because the industry doesn’t treat games as art to be preserved but products to sell and later drop in the shitter when they stop doing that.

If a citizen engages in journalistic behavior, they ought to be held to the same standards of a journalist.

Because Trackmania is a game about pure racing. Everyone uses the same car and the tracks are abstract rather than realistic, meant to challenge the player’s ability to find new routes and control their car as optimally as possible to get the lowest possible time. Car collisions has never been a thing in any…

Canada went from $50 games in the late 360 era (2011) to $90 games by 2014. For a lot of gamers in Canada, Oceania, and other nominally developed countries, gaming is more expensive now than ever.

Those both look like perfectly fine video games.

Agreed, so hard. So many “hey let’s see if people like this” kinda games, and the industry has been piggy backing off of that ingenuity ever since.

Katamari Damacy is still very, very fun to this very day. We went from top down to true 3d with MGS. The over-the-shoulder 3rd person view in RE4. For sony gamers it was…

The frustrating reality of this 4k obsession is also that almost no one actually sets up their living rooms in ways that even matters for the distinction between 1080p and 4k.

Focusing on 4K is a colossal waste. Focus on framerates, more complex simulations, higher player counts, ANYTHING but fucking 4K. Breath of the Wild looks just fine on my 4K set thanks to decent upscaling, and I would be perfectly contented if the next Switch remained a 1080p system.

That echoes my own concerns about Epic. Competition is generally good, as it promotes innovation and the consumer will typically see some benefit from the company trying to win them over. But like your Netflix example, they aren’t really bringing anything new to the table.

My problem has always been Epic pushing for exclusivity for exclusivity’s sake even if something has been sold/pre-sold on other retailers. Add in the total half-assing of their storefront/launcher while also starting a hypocritical conflict with Apple/Google while simultaneously trying to weaponize their fans for…

The best part of this is when you consider this conversation happened because a search engine got popular.

I mean, I think developers are going to put their game up on anything that’s willing to pay them for it on terms they find favorable. The only real question is whether Google’s willing to stick it out to develop a game-streaming subscription service.

For anyone that wants to know the difference, there was a lawsuit filed against Nintendo regarding Pokemon cards as gambling back in 1999. The lawsuit was dismissed by the judge.

The long and the short of it that makes a difference vs lootboxes is

1. Your ability to resell the product
2. You purchased something that has…

Yeesh that school shooter take. A fair amount of school shootings are perpetrated by kids/teens, his answer is just... Shoot them first?

I agree, but at the same time, I would like to have all my stuff in one place. The way I see it, if I don’t need to play a game right this second, I’m willing to wait and see what happens. My backlog is impossibly large as it is, so I can wait for either a huge price drop or for it to come to Steam. And then I can…

“Essentially every business resells their products,” said Jordan. “Tesco, for example, buys milk from farmers for 26p or so per litre and sells it on for upwards of 70p per litre. No one ever seems to complain to the extent as they are currently doing towards ourselves.”