No, go read the information posted there. That percentage of sales in 44 US states was what was being directly donated when you got the DLC. WB was going to take ALL of the profits that they earned in all 241 territories that the DLC was available and donate it ALL the profit to his family. The issue was that legal…

What you think doesn’t matter, because that’s literally what they stated.

The issue is that, some places don’t allow donation like that, but WB planned to take any profit from the DLC and donate it on their own – which they can do if they want because at that point it’s their profit. There’s lots of weird legal obligations and stuff around channeling things directly into charities and…

Yeah, but sometimes that’s the nature of legal requirements. In this case, overly cynical places like Kotaku that published articles assuming the worst to profit off the back of the negative microtransaction stuff basically screwed them out of being able to donate MASSIVE funds from the DLC sales to his family, which…

There’s a reason why they didn’t. Check the full description in the video, since it’s 1000x better than the two sentences we got on this from Kotaku.

THEY DID IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. They were going to donate 100% of the profits from the DLC, and knew that DLC sales were likely to be more significant than just a little donation link. It’s the cynics and negative press that fucked this one up. Just go read the description on the re-upload they did of the trailer:

Go read the full description on the YouTube video. They WERE going to donate 100% of the profits from the DLC. This excuse for a follow-up by Kotaku isn’t doing the damn thing any justice at all, especially because Kotaku is in part to blame for this not working because of their original article.

Go read the description on the YouTube video. This paragraph in particular:

“Specifically, we decided to sell the DLC worldwide and donate all profits from the DLC to the family. Although we decided to donate all profits to the family, we only planned to actively promote this donation in the U.S. (excluding certain…

You know: Maybe actually read the description of the video they uploaded and give us a fully-fleshed out article like this follow-up deserves:

Oh man, I’m glad to know FFVII probably had a Dairy Farming translator with the spreadsheet of imperfectly copied cells. Thanks again for all the work you’ve been diving into on this series. It’s been rad to help out in whatever little ways we can!

Clearly inspired by this excellent piece of artwork:

They mentioned that it costs $1.50 to have the DLC available on the stores, so really any of the profit that’s being made is going to his family.

These are so excellent, thanks for doing them. Glad some of the folks over from TheLifestream could help out with this, too!

So... You’ve made a devloution into a mix of a pure strawman & ad hominem attacks in your self-declared final reply. Not to mention that in all the 5 paragraphs not a SINGLE attempt to directly address the specifics of this system in this game that I have been overly adamant about discussing. It’s only going in…

Well, like you said, there’re Overwatch Loot Boxes – there’s also Destiny with Silver, Duelyst Mystery Crates, Halo5 REQ Packs, etc. Additionally, Mortal Kombat X had the option of purchasing an “unlock DLC” for their Krypt (which is similar but also slightly different). My point is that there’s a model that other…

...That’s not evidence that this game’s core mechanics were manipulated. A large number of modern games with RNG loot elements correlating to an in-game currency give you the option to also purchase said RNG loot with real money. That’s it. The game has the Market system in place already, and they’re just adding on…

First off: I’ve given no evidence that the mechanics haven’t changed from Shadow of Mordor, because you’re the one claiming that things are being intentionally changed from how they existed before, so you’re responsible for the burden of proof for that claim. I don’t have to prove a negative because you’re making an…

Please, do tell how they would possibly “bump up the amount of grind” like you’re claiming. Your entire argument rests on the fact that this must be true, otherwise it’s not malicious, it’s just innocuous.

Well in SoM & SoW, unlocking Runes, Captains, etc. is all just a natural part of playing the game. Finding the random things throughout the game is just the way it goes, but when it comes to attempting to specialize down different paths, your only alternative would be a sort of crafting system – which MIGHT make sense…