The weird thing is that we already saw this pattern with Marvel games.

While I’d be perfectly happy with either Bender Bending Rodriguez or Urdnot Grunt doing the VA for Ganon, Idris Elba legit knocked it out of the park in Phantom Liberty.

I at least hope we keep some of the combat from Andromeda, tho. The game may have been a disappointment, but it had the most fun gameplay of the series (IMO). Being able to mix and match powers in ways you never before could was really nice as well.

Ah, yes - GOG is famously “a gigantic company”, right? And the only way they’ve managed to compete was “to bleed cash for a long time”, right?

Exactly. Making a purchase online is completely devoid of the sunk cost fallacy of “We might as well buy some more stuff now that we drove 45 minutes to get here.”.

What point do you think it’s making that people are getting wrong?

The thing about Epic’s strategy is it’s basically just applying the brick and mortar ‘get people in the door and try to catch their eye with an impulse buy’ tactic but applied to the digital space, but without consideration that customers don’t behave the same way in digital space as they do irl.

I think their plan was to spend millions (billions?) on user acquisition, then slowly cut back on that and hope that consumers continue spending money in the store. They’ve already started slowing down on their exclusivity deals, giveaways, coupons, etc, but I don’t think they’re getting the expected growth in…

So... how exactly does exclusivity benefit consumers? Nobody’s complaining about having more choices. They’re complaining about having fewer choices as a result of arbitrary exclusivity deals. For example, being able to buy and play Dead Island 2 on Steam, GOG, the MS Store and EGS would have been great. Customers…

Biggest issue i see for Epic is that they are spending A LOT of cash to acquire users that are not spending money. Between the free games, sales and coupons they have conditioned users to wait and get games for free or at a steep discount.

Tim just keeps punching himself in the junk over and over again. He got his ass handed to him in the Apple case and Google is arguably even more open and free with their store policies than Apple is. What makes Tim think he’s going to get anywhere except another dead end and massive legal bills? As Google said, Epic…

So, affiliate links huh?

The Wii had nearly-mandatory motion controls, man. That’s the definition of unconventional design, regardless of its internal components.

And everything you just described about the Switch—particularly with the detachable controller and “video-out port” is also unconventional design. Otherwise, why hadn’t any other…

The switch is conventional design?  The Wii was conventional design?

One thing to notice, Third Strike, Brood Wars, and MvC2 are still supported and sold by their companies in various forms.

1993 called. They want their terrible retorts back.

 ...i don't care about any of those people.

it’s called “licensing agreement,” screaming about not understanding it doesn’t help it either. I know the internet has become 24/7 drama, but even now even with the promise, “We aren’t even sponsored, we aren’t awarding cash, we are just fans trying to have a small tournament.” Isn’t enough to pass in a court of law.

ssbm does not have a level editor