My personal guess is that Zelda will be incapacitated early on the story to allow for all the freedom player/Link want without affecting the story.

Let’s not forget that Iwata started as a programmer, and rose to CEO rank decades later. Probably a good proof that corporate culture at Nintendo really does try to keep valued employees, on average (I’m sure they had a few less than savory personnel decisions among the years).

Actually, most games @CMAllenToo pointed to actually have nearly of all of those. Especially ESO: it got DLCs, season content (events), microtransactions and multiplayer, while having a thriving mod community. Only thing missing if a bona-fide battle-pass, but many of it loot systems and collectibles would qualify in…

If I remember correctly, Path of Exile has a similar monetization option to add stash, but same memory also says it was much cheaper and could add a whole lot more than 2.

Practically the same definition as “Woke”.

It also ferryed COVID-19 vaccines in the last years.
R.I.P. Big Bird...

The first part of your post I cannot interpret otherwise as a justification for the remaking of the LTTP game. You flatly state that this endeavour is legal. That remaking project is not intended to be used by others to make their own game: it’s flatly stated this is intended to play the game as it is, as faithfully…

But the case you mentionned is only tangentially related to the case at hand: here we are talking about a faithful RECREATION of the initial product, without the assets (which ARE very firmly copyrighted with no grey area).

This is completely unreasonable request IMO.

Agree. There are too many people that got rich quick with fame and don’t give a cent back.

I’d say this is a “both side equal” fallacy: there clearly one party a lot more interested in helping people than the other in the USA. It’s just that it’s elective system is waaaaay too predicated on maintaining “status quo” by giving too many levers of brake on disruptive legislation.

That’s a deep dive.

OTOH, very few games like Ori made me cry in their opening cinematic/section....

Gameplay-wise, I entirely agree: it’s a good, underrated game.

I mean, Super Metroid was just a near perfect game: it STILLS holds up even by today’s standards for the genre.

It’s basically a huge social example for a strawman fallacy, with a heavy dose of self-victimization.

Some personally won’t buy it coz the franchise is “ruined” in their mind which is fair, but some are also encouraging others to do the same.

You would be very surprised at how much bizarre jobs exists in a single industry, from hollywood movie production to NSFW content creation.

As a counter-argument, maybe she did not like that kind of work all that much and is looking to do something else?

Probably some kind of state/province law that forces employers to give a fair amount of time before termination of job for employees.