Generally... no, not at larger companies. The individual staff usually don’t get any extra kickbacks besides their pay. So you’re not directly stealing from them.
But you are indirectly damaging their income by hurting the market. In theory (which doesn’t ALWAYS hold true), the better the games do, the more jobs, more…

I actually don’t know either way and it probably varies from studio to studio...but generally speaking, a studio is less inclined to have all those people on staff if the games they produce are underperforming.

BoardGameGeek tends to focus on “geekier” / “hardcore” games that are complicated, involved, and niche. It doesn’t surprise me that something as “simple” and “low-brow” as Exploding Kittens is not all the rage on that site. Don’t get me wrong, I play and enjoy more involved games like Pathfinder and Arkham Horror as…

Yeah it kinda reminds of Mega Man and Mega Man X in that regard.

Two people having a healthy, respectful disagreement on the internet over a videogame, while giving credence to each other’s ideas.

It is possible, after all!!

Fair enough, on your points. I think that Bloodborne is far from perfect, for the record. Personally, I wouldn’t go far as to say it feels incomplete, but it does feel a bit rushed at times. The game suffers from a lack of balance in certain areas; going through the incredible Yharnam stages early on, to the Forbidden…

I never have the slightest bit of trouble. Hell, I worked there for 3 years. But even at other stores, I never experienced a single issue. I enjoy chatting with the staff on a semi-regular basis. When I worked there, my manager was very keen on hiring people who knew about and enjoyed playing games (very against the…

I love my Gamestop. Well, actually, I love the workers at my Gamestop.

Mine must be weird, I’ve never had any issue with my local Gamestop. Quentin (the manager) is a fuckin BAMF

This is always going to happen; new thing comes along, folks don’t get it, jokes are made.

Wow, dude. That’s a pretty horrible thing to say.

That makes sense to me, I imagine the context of the developer and Japan’s market is something I’m missing when it comes to my comments. Thanks for sharing your opinion and how it relates to your own experiences, sometimes people get upset when talking about these issues, its nice to be able to talk about it in a…

I wish there were more awesome Yaoi games... it makes me all sad panda that even the good female protagonist bishojous are kinda tame, they don’t even have good romance in them which would be something. Heck I’d even take some good Yaoi romances most of them tend to not be very erotic OR romantic which kinda blows the…

Oh god I would LOVE a Yaoi game. Someone needs to get on this.

Not at all. You were quite civil for the most part

MangaGamer recently released a sexually explicit yaoi game. It’s not being released heavily censored on Steam because sex is actually an important part of the story! If the game had a non-porn version in Japan or had scenes that could reasonably be cut to make it fit Steam’s criteria, they almost certainly would have…

I have no problem whatsoever with this, except that I hope it opens the door as well to Yaoi and Heteresexual games as well in time.

Totally. Choices were irrelevant.

1) I cared about who ended up Divine. It changed the epilogue. But then, I didn’t hate DA:II. Choosing a Divine that will solve a conflict you’d been grappling with for two games now was pretty satisfying, at least to me. I can see if you feel the epilogue has little to do with the game’s narrative since the player…

Agreed. I loved Origins, I beat it like 5 times. I even prefer II to Inquisition.