I met a rude sponge once, it was so self-absorbed...

But the emerging truth from all of them, and your book, is that the basic structure of designing games is broken. People have this desire to build these awesome worlds for us to enjoy. And in too many cases that desire, and the joy that must come with it, is turning into this nightmarish scenario.

It’s weird, because he always seemed like a pretty normal guy back in the alpha days. Then one day he just... snapped and started posting absolutely wild rants on Twitter. I wanna say it was around the time he made the news for outbidding Jay Z on that giant mansion.

It’s definitely a weird cultural conviction, to completely disassociate with an individual who has used illicit drugs.

That said, while there’s definitely a stereotype surrounding creatives and drug use (and it exists for good reason: there’s a kernel of truth at its core—though the area I occupy, specifically, tends…

It’s an expression, and not intended to mean “you are the only one with these problems.”

Good show on that straw man, though.

unmitigated disaster? dude i finished andromeda, it was not amazing, but calling it a disaster is the kind of unhelpful hyperbole that leads to discussions devolving into screaming matches. even anthem was flawed but playable, You can help guide the response by discussing what you felt went wrong in a calm and…

Anthem isn’t a good game. It deserves to be criticized.

Your reading comprehension is so poor that it’s saddening.

No one is arguing against your right to complain when a product or service does not meet what was promised.

The argument is against death threats, threats of other violence, and similarly toxic horseshit—which is the focus of both this article, and pretty much…

There’s a difference between offering criticism of a product you feel does not meet your personal standards and behaving like a child throwing a tantrum because a plastic action figure failed to fly of its own accord.

You and Leshrac are in the wrong thread. To reasonable and not toxic enough for here.  (Totally agree with both of you)

But it’s NOT just Bioware. EA Sports, Bethesda, Rockstar, the list goes on and on.
SO easy to tell people “go find another job.” SO much harder to do just that.
Such simplistic advice is honestly worthless. ALL the game development companies are the same grind for the devs. It’s hard and mostly thankless work.
Adding…

Yeah, it was finished in the sense that we’d never get an update—and if the game was broken (E.T.), or just borderline unplayable (far too many NES games to list), then that never changed.

But hey, way to stick to the “but it was FINISHED” line, carefully and deliberately eliding the quality problem we had then.

Don’t buy my games then . Keep your $60, asshole. Your money gets you a game, not my dignity.

I really don’t get people who gripe about betas. They’re broken from the beginning; it’s the entire purpose of releasing betas. See what the public can find that’s broken in the beta and test it in the wild. What I really don’t get is why companies even bother releasing betas in the wild nowadays. It’s kind of stupid.…

“Unsuspecting customers.” You mean the hordes of gamers who read sites like this every day, or the people who downloaded a broken beta, or the fact that the games been delayed? If you thought Anthem was going to be a smash hit on release, or even relatively good, you just weren’t paying attention. 

You are conflating the idea of levying valid, reasonably-delivered criticism with the issuance of death threats and needlessly profane rants.

No one is arguing that you as the consumer do not have the right to voice concerns with the quality of a product for which you have paid; we (and the article itself) are arguing…

And that’s the problem I have with articles like this, and a number of the comments that inevitably show up in them. The vast majority of people who are criticizing these games are doing so in a general and constructive manner. If they are particularly upset, it may contain swearing, but it’s about the game. Those…

>Comes to article about developers not wanting to deal with toxic community

Others have already said it better: “No fucking shit.”

The purchase of a game (or, really, a license) doesn’t entitle you to shit all over the people who made that game just because it doesn’t conform to your individual expectations.

It entitles you to voice your concerns, certainly, but not to issue threats, drop the…

I see Ashley is wearing another dress from her “Salute to the greatest World War II warship dazzle camouflage patterns” collection.