Beat the racist team.

That’s true, it’s not.  But marketing can have an outsized effect on the performance of a product.  My larger point is that Cliff Bleszinski is good at making a particular type of game that needs the backing of a larger apparatus to work correctly.  He doesn’t work as an indie developer because doing the same thing as…

What’s sad is that this even had to happen.  Anti-fascism shouldn’t be controversial in America, my grandpa got his leg tore open in World War 2 fighting these assholes,  they don’t deserve a voice and their hate has no place in modern America.

The difference is that with a physical card the value isn’t just because you got the card, it’s the quality of the card and the age that determine value to a collector. A mint-condition Black Lotus from the first edition of Magic: The Gathering can sell for $27,000 at auction; such value factors don’t matter in a…

So true about Artifact, they’re pricing it like it’s a physical game instead of an online game.

The stock market in general is down, doesn’t mean that these specific stock dips are due to that.  Activision-Blizzard’s big dip hit after the Diablo Immortal backlash, for example.

Yes, stocks in general are down, but they aren’t as much as 38%, at least not yet. Just because stocks in general are down doesn’t mean that every stock that went down at all is a victim of the general bear market. If you’re trying to play at being a day trader, then you’re missing key details by just saying “down…

Right, but the backlash is surely hitting the bottom line, especially thanks to looming legal concerns in the EU.

Wasn’t talking about workers.  Was talking about the backlash and legal trouble relating to the “live services” model which is built around microtransactions and loot boxes.  I’m well aware investors don’t give a shit about workers.

I think it could have. Quite frankly, I was only vaguely aware Lawbreakers existed; you know if this was backed by EA or Activision-Blizzard or Take-Two there would have been a huge media blitz that would have lured at least some folks away from Overwatch.

Given that the general scent of bars with darts is “rotting bloody vomit from alcoholic with a failed liver and a love of cheese” I’m surprised he can smell anything.

I feel like Cliff Bleszinski just can’t make games as an indie developer, he’s very much a “blockbuster” developer that delivers mentally shallow but beautiful games with good controls; you can’t sell people on that without a big marketing budget. There wasn’t really anything particularly novel or interesting about…

Not shocked at the decline in stock prices for EA, Activision-Blizzard and Take-Two; the industry is starting to see significant backlash to its scummy practices and that can only mean a decline in profits.  The question is whether or not the industry can properly adapt to the new reality after going in so hard for…

I mean, It’s Billy Haisley, of course he’s wrong.

It’s also about safety.  You go to Hertz, Avis or any other rental company and they are required by law to keep cars up to a particular maintenance level; some rando on the internet doesn’t necessarily need to follow the same rules.  Making everyone follow the same rules may mean that Turo dies (at least in Chicago)…

I believe they would be considered certs as they’re highly specialized, but I could be wrong.

Servais wasn’t her boss. Beyond that, while that response you typed out is dickish it’s not what they said, they told her it’s because she’s a woman, which is a pretty big difference.

Which is weird, because she’s worked for bigger teams in the NFL and NBA so she’s used to the environment of big sports teams and isn’t likely to be intimidated by them. Not to mention she’s incredibly well-educated and smart enough to be a speaker at MIT-Sloan sports analytics conference teaching other very smart…

Education isn’t over for many people once you get a PhD, particularly in the medical field. You can get post-doctoral specialty degrees that show you’re certified to do certain things, many are tied to state or federal requirements to call you a particular type of specialty doctor. So for example, to call yourself a…

But at least the Resident Evil movies kinda sort followed some of the plot. Umbrella is an evil company that makes zombies for reasons and only a few people know the truth and fight to stop them. Yes, the plot is completely different past the broad details, but at least they kinda sorta get the right vibe. This movie…