That’s the absolute truth. Regulations that protect my wealth? GOOD. Regulations that prevent me from destroying the planet and other people to make more money? BAD.

I don’t believe in God, but the thing that convinces me most that the majority of conservatives don’t actually believe in God either despite their many pandering protestations otherwise is... well... their actions in life.

If only we could just chuck them all in so they can live out their Mad Max cosplay fantasy and quit mucking it up for the rest of us.

To co-opt a Bette Davis quote: “Mother always said to speak good of the dead. David Koch is dead. Good.”

I think it’s less of a contradiction than a roundabout way of saying that he’s old and experienced enough to not be excited by the same thing with a new coat of paint thats passing for AAA titles these days (your Spider-Mans, God of Wars, and RDR2 notwithstanding...maybe).

Indeed. Also, I forgot to add that the price of top-end games not changing is entirely unrelated to the insidious expansion of micro-transaction models. If we raised the price of games tomorrow, these added pricing models would not disappear. We’d simply be paying more than usual in addition to being force-fed…

Yeah, Joshua’s article seemed to be leaving out some key issues. Most glaringly was the outsized effect of the modern corporate structure and executive compensation.

If any game deserved to be priced at $80, it was The Witcher 3, and yet they still made a shit ton of money at the $60 price point. The $59.99 price tag is not the problem. The insane salaries of these CEOs and the demands of stockholders is. Bobby Kotick is the devil of the games industry, but he’s hardly alone in…

I totally agree with this article. When Sony first announced the Vita and it’s pricing I laughed at the whole thing. I found it ridiculous to pay that price for a handheld especially one that used a mobile network which would cost even MORE money (the mobile network was from AT&T). Then a few years ago after…

Well. Said. I’ll never get why Sony didn’t push it harder here in the West after the PSP took a respectable chunk of the mobile market. I may actually fire mine up with Megaman Legends coming out tomorrow.

:(

This is precisely why you don't pre-order stuff. If a game is really worth fifty bucks you'll still want to buy it two weeks after it's released and all the play-throughs are online. Pre-order it and developers will still think they can ship an subpar product so long as it makes all its money before it even gets in…

So because he has an opinion differing from yours, that's an embarrassment? He pretty much backed up every reason why he dislikes the game. Perhaps you can provide reasons why you like it instead?

Wow, what a waste of someones precious time and effort. It really is as simple as 'if you don't like it, don't watch it'. Hell, if you'd already decided that Jackson was only stretching the films out to purely make money (something that doesn't ring true with anything we know about the man or anyone else over at Weta)…

Oh, things "aging" is really not the problem - fads come and go and come again, and eventually everyone wants something retro or remade or remixed.

I respect their choice, it's a decision they have made for themselves. I think that feeling sorry for others (as far as preferences go) is a bit of an arrogant statement, it paints them as inferior beings whom we take pity on, and that's no good. Also, I don't think that the statement "people who only play one video…

If you have a product that lasts for 40 years and brings in loads of money, I really can't say that you have failed in any aspects. It is only logical that things age, no?

Dude, I'm 23, right in the prime market for games like World of Tanks and League of Legends, and EVEN I DONT UNDERSTAND THEM lol.

I am pretty sure in the very same sentence I also condemned the video game equivalent of sports. So it was less about being a "nerd" and condemning sports as it was about condemning all things painfully repetitive and thus boring. But, you know, go ahead and feel persecuted by nerds for your decision to watch sports…

Couldn't agree more. I've had similar experiences in Street Fighter and other fighters, and it gets really annoying. Ultimately I play to have fun (because it's a game), so although I have my mains, I'll use characters I'm not so great with; even hit up the random select box. It's always a lot more fun playing with…