Uh, actually...

1) Every single item you can get on an OW loot box you can also get from free either from the regular free boxes or by using gold you get from some of those boxes. I’ve played the game for a year and haven’t spent a penny, nor ever felt forced to.

2) OW loot boxes don’t even have repeat items since about…

Actually, that method was changed about a year ago. You can buy anything right away these days (well, except for seasonal items off-season, but that’s fair). The only difference is current-year items cost three times the amount of gold of old ones.

Until somebody in the government notices that paying for current crap in the hopes that you’re given valuable stuff next is exactly the same, as the mechanism the Netherlands are trying to ban remains intact.

I hope they’re served a huge fucking fine for this. This is not okay.

They can’t.

The licensing is simply a permit for Square to sell their games for the console, usually in exchange for a payment, be it a one-time or a percentage of the sales gross. The IP, and all the code in the cartridge, still belongs to Square. If Square wants to give away the game, they can and don’t need…

My guess is they’re trying to make an example out of this guy, and hoping other sites will close on their own under the threat of a lawsuit.

And I hope that’s the case, because if they’re getting lawsuit-happy it’s only a matter of time before somebody actually innocent gets sued and the PR shitstorm begins.

Nintendo can’t sue over non-Nintendo IP games nor demand a takedown for them, thus making the point moot. Sure, Nintendo can’t put Final Fantasy VI on the Switch without Square approval, but they also can’t sue anyone distributing FFVI ROMs because it’s not their damn IP. Every single game they’re suing over is their…

You mean consoles and cartridges that are no longer available first-party nor being produced anywhere and that, therefore, Nintendo isn’t profiting from?

From where I stand, the process of looking for all that stuff second-hand, buying it, and getting it to work on modern hardware is far too much and for Nintendo’s…

I’m very glad this is finally out. Base game was quite imbalanced against the player, and I decided to not give it a try again until the balance patch that came bundled with the Switch version was out for PC. Took over a year, but well... I can play this again now.

So they went and rented a house to fake live in and STILL couldn’t give PoorMichele a fake room?

This is adding insult to injury I’m sure.

By now you should be aware that the WoW team’s idea of “balance” consists on passing the OP scepter around with every patch. Whoever has the OP scepter has to pass it to another class/specialization each patch and get beaten to a pulp with the nerfhammer. Rinse and repeat.

I would expect having MS would make this guy an exceptional case. Particularly since thanks to the ridiculously slow development pace this game has taken it’s likely he’ll be long dead when it releases. IF it releases.

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And you keep assuming he’s “treating her as less” because she is a woman, therefore assuming that he wouldn’t have used the exact same words to talk to another man. Which I would have.

Honestly, the outrage is all in your head. But it’s fine, the internet is full of professional complainers and victims (the GamerGate…

And you assume he wouldn’t be telling the same to a male story developer because? I mean, I’ve seen fans tell the story devs of the video games they like how they think stories or characters would be better handled thousands of times, and in most cases said devs are male. I myself will openly state Blizzard’s…

The part I find wrong about this is the cesspool that is GamerGate joining the fray. There’s sexism being thrown both sides now.

But let’s state something here: While there’s rampant misogyny both in the video game industry and everywhere else, the answer to it can’t be mysandry, particularly of the unasked for kind. A…

You’re sounding awfully like an MRA, so my first instinct is to just walk away from the conversation as there’s no reasoning with that ilk. But I’ll bite.

This... man, this heavily depends. Men are literally always objectified... from a straight male point of view. In most cases, those “objectified men” you speak of are straight male fantasies of what a man should be like - usually lots of muscles, physical strength, and anger -, not necessarily something that will…

It’s a common trope with cartoons, actually. Since cartoon characters always wear the same clothes, it’s not odd to lampshade the fact by showing their closets having the same attire over and over. It was also done in Dexter’s Lab at least once.

trolls dont usually have friends though as their nature usually prevents that, giving other people the advantage in finding the codes.

Also they definitely said this to keep Jason from scooping it