This spin of this article is so weird.

Yeah Kotaku is trying really hard to convince that this is going to be a a gamer cultural touchstone movie that somehow is going to legitimize all of our childhoods spent playing videogames. If it’s not treated with the importance and gravitas it deserves it will be a major insult to gaming culture as a whole...

KiraTV just dropped a pretty good breakdown of the publisher of this game and a bunch of other similar titles, and their ongoing policy of wringing every bit of money possible out of the games they own and dropping anything that won’t meet their bottom line. Then again, we knew Ark was a scam when it dropped paid DLC…

I don’t think he was ‘making demands’. He said ‘This is how I do my voice. If this is good for you, then cool.’ Blame the producers, if anyone. Seth was just upfront about how is performance would be and they still hired him despite that warning.

Putting it in the terms of service doesn’t necessarily make it enforceable.

Unless “plans change” and it never comes back. Remember, this is a company which prevented at least one fully completed movie from seeing the light of day in order to take tax writeoffs, among other controversial decisions.

Somebody’s fishing for a class action suit.

I don’t know what you’re talking about. The Audi A4 has been available for years.

Where did you hear this cancer business? Have not seen one credible source document any kind of long-term cancer battle, public or otherwise.

Also, you’re making a *ton* of assumptions about their production workflow. From the state of the game shortly before Lightfall, we know aspects of the third and fourth seasons o…

Um, what? The decision to stop development on the PS5 version was done before Sony objected to the Activision deal. So without any objection, they taught Sony that they would cancel their versions of games. Sony is now trying to keep them from doing that further. 

“If Sony wants this game, they should let Microsoft merge and then deny access to even more games except without anyone looking over their shoulder.”

I think people coming down hard on this are missing the big picture. This isn’t a “okay we want fortnite more” step by Epic, this is a “Let’s get people into our editing ecosystem and stay there”. I’m 100% certain we’ll see a story in less than a decade of a younger person being interviewed about their smash-hit indie…

Very simple.
They canned a planned PS5 version from a studio that they acquired.
Sony doesn’t buy a studio and then take shit from Microsoft, they acquire a studio and plan new games for their own platform.

Well, partially because Sony isn’t buying up major publishers and then making their games platform-exclusive, at least not yet.

Wait, are you trying to tell us that PHIL SPENCER MIGHT LIE TO US?

No, you’ll be able to pay it for a subscription fee on GamePass.

This excuse is of course total bobbins; who says you need multiple Battle.net accounts to play local co-op, when you can just have all the local players using different characters on the same account? I mean, you can still have multiple characters per account, yes? So let the local players bring one of them into the…

You don’t even need the MLB license, Microsoft! You have ten years to make your own super popular baseball game!

I love the hot takes from people who are taking their level 1-25, fraction of chapter 1, fraction of a skill tree, non-BiS, non-meta, non-endgame, single weekend experience, and just...mapping that across the entire game.

A bit off topic, but I’m still holding out until I can get to watch the whole series in order, movies included. I hope it’s all in one streaming platform at some point in the near future.