We grown, and we dying.

You see how this whole article is structured, right? It begins - literally the opening sentence - by acknowledging this could be an “embarrassing gap in our knowledge”, then I repeatedly mock myself for reporting 23-year-old news throughout, and then finish by mocking us again by suggesting we’ll report on a Wii egg…

And this is such a tired rebuttal.

The influx of new purchasers alone is so much exponentially higher than it was in the 60-dollar era. Personally I wait a year or two, since FOMO has no power over me in my 40's. Then I snag a copy for a quarter the cost.

You got an excellent game and helped support the people who made it and backed future releases/content. 

I know you hate when it happens, but this is one of those games that if I played on Game Pass, I would still buy so I can own forever. It’s just *that* good. 

“They felt betrayed by the company because they were promised they wouldn’t have to go through another shortened timeline after the release of their previous game, Call of Duty: Vanguard, which was made under a similarly constrained development cycle,”

It was you!

I am complicit, as well. I bought it. And the worst part is that I couldn’t even use it, because I wanted to use it for my unicorn in the game. But if memory serves, you couldn’t actually “tame” the unicorn and therefore couldn’t use the armor on him?

As a dev, let me just say big L-O-L at “inflation” being the reason. It’s corporate greed, period. You think those profits go back to the devs?

“So rising prices of gaming primarily goes to increased development costs.”

Just false. Maybe take a look at how many layoffs there have been this year.

In 10 years the next huge Bethesda RPG will come out and critics will be saying “it doesn’t have the charm of Starfield or Skyrim”.

Seems like the more of the game the reviewers played, the more they seemed to like what they uncovered. Which I guess makes sense. You won’t put more effort into a game than what would be required for a review if you weren’t into it. I’m curious at how similar the playthroughs were between reviewers, though. 

Please stop fixating on the tree so that you can see the forest.

Not to be -that- guy, but it is far from just men. The level of absolute frothing obsession that I’ve seen from folks on Tumblr for someone who, like, posts one piece of art a week and said one thing seven years ago that they didn’t like is truly staggering.

I think this whole ‘internet’ thing might just be something…

You don’t; it’s as easy as 1-2-3. You don’t gain anything sympathizing with people who have no empathy themselves. That just leaves you in a trapped relationship, arrested development, “I can fix him”/Stockholm Syndrome mentality, etc.

meh, doubt it was mental illness. He was showing off for other shit bags in a discord. He probably kept ramping things up to get the dopamine rush of being king shit bag for a day.

I don’t know if you haven’t spent much time on Twitter but this is like...the normal capital ‘G’ Gamer reaction whenever a black person/queer person/woman exists within 100 yards of their video games/movies.

Don’t conflate being a racist asshole with having mental health issues.  

Maybe I’m reading too deep into your comment, but let’s not conflate racism with mental illness. There are plenty of people with mental health issues who manage to not be racist in their treatment of others.

This sparks joy.

Borderlands seems like the franchise you’d immediately go to James Gunn for since it basically runs on the same kind of humor and character interaction as his Suicide Squad and Guardians films.