That’s not true. Don Mattrick was shit-canned at both M$ and Zynga for poor performance. Same thing with Alex Garden. They just don’t call it that. Executives don’t get “fired.” The “look for other opportunities” and have a golden parachute.

I mean, they can. I blame the Unity store for all of my problems.

SO HYPE

Sick. Now when I report people for it, I can feel 100% justified.

What about people already in the gaming industry? Is it a conflict of interest to offer insights that will automatically seem biased?

Not entirely accurate. Showing that your game has growth potential and solid EBITDA in a corp that houses multiple studios can cause execs to increase your budget for more offerings. However, the studio has to decide how that budget will be allocated. They may use it all for more revenue generating features, they may…

This is why Kaplan needs to stop talking to the press. Go through your PR people, Kap.

Doesn’t it seem more likely that Blizzard just stormed cheater forums with fake or even real accounts merely SAYING that they were banned in order to prevent others from doing it?

omg

You were catching them too fast. They realized people would be disengaged by December when the next generation is slated to release.

In it, Kratos has a precious new family member (his beard) and also a son.

Where’s the [Opinion] tag?

Or, ya know, China’s investors are pulling out and he’s being paid to try to get people to put money back in for reasons of nationalism.

Not all those who “wander” are lost.

I’ll fight you, punk. Come here, punk!

I’ve heard Overwatch described by my friends as “just a competent shooter with a lot of polish, nothing amazing.”

It is kinda crappy that the price point on console is $60 just to keep in line with other title costs, with or without the promise of free content in the future. I will say, however, that the $40 price point on PC is much friendlier and that this, unfortunately, feels like a PC title shoehorned into a console release.…

It goes without saying, but my two cents:

mmm Smoke testing is only going to cover basic functionality. This would have been more relegated to the feature alpha and its possible that the ability didn’t exist when they ran it the first time.

With any form of art, the creator runs the risk of it being unprofitable or under-appreciated. Is this fair? No. Has it happened to artists and content creators throughout history? Definitely.