This could very well be Taro’s finest NieR game and I’m willing to admit as much, but I refuse to sink time into a gacha game. I’ll just head the series’ wiki to get my lore dumps and watch YT compilations for crucial cutscenes if any. 

Hell no I’m not going to play a gacha, and least of all when it’s already been announced that the servers are shutting down.

The problem with gacha games isn’t that they cost money. I’m glad to pay money for a good game.

fuck gacha. and why the hell are you promoting it on Kotaku, of all places.

Would be nice if they ported this to PC and consoles. Without the MTX.

Meghan Kelly has no room to talk about getting work done.

When a studio goes under, its employees lose their jobs. You stated that mergers are more harmful than studios going under. Therefore, you’re stating that being acquired is worse than being fired.

These were NOT contract workers.

On a side note, claiming that it’s better for people to be fired than acquired seems a bit... selfish?

“Because the execs are viewed as more important while workers (contract ones particularly) are seen as expendable?”

It’s almost as if layoffs can be caused by more than one or two things. But these giant mergers ultimately have more harmful effects on both consumers and workers than when an independent studio goes under.

honestly, unizionation. it might not sound like anything. hell, it might not always result in job protection, but a unified workforce is a scary workforce. that’s why corporations are always union busting; they don’t want workers to engage in collective action. the moment workers realize they actually hold the means…

Zooming in on something is editing it? I’ve seen some terrible takes around this game, but this is one of the worst.

What? Scaling means nothing. Scaling is a completely transform-free process in 3D modeling. 1 inch means 1 foot means 1 astronomical unit because these virtual worlds are completely unit free.

Exactly. I don’t care that how ubiquitous our internet connection is, the inability to play an offline game without the internet is unacceptable.

The Xbox One was designed from the ground up to make publishers happy, not the consumer

And let’s not forget that the mandatory Kinect, coupled with a mandatory always-on internet, was a major privacy issue.

“It combined a console, streaming device, and Blu-Ray player into the original all-in-one media player. But like Marty McFly rocking out to “Johnny B Goode” in Back to the Future, people weren’t quite ready for that. Yet.”

The people who will run in with attempts at “told you so”s will ignore two major elements:

1) Even if it was the best thing ever, Microsoft did such an ATROCIOUS job explaining/marketing it, it never would have mattered. The case study of just how you could botch a console launch from every conceivable angle is…

I see we are to the point now where it’s time to try to rewrite the history of the Xbone and make excuses for why it, once again, was a failure. At this point Microsoft has given up completely on even trying to learn from and correct any past mistakes, they’re not even trying at all anymore to attract new customers…