You’ve officially cemented yourself as my favorite author on Kotaku since that last loot box article and this one makes me love you more.

Hey, just wanted to give some input- by trying to make these podcasts look like articles, I am less inclined to actually listen to them. Every week it’s something I’m genuinely interested in reading, but because it turns out to be some sneak ad for the podcast it just makes me frustrated. I don’t mean this as…

Fuck GTA Online’s economy.

as with any public forum, things can get heated. Some players accuse fans of just wanting to play “Barbie dress up.”

I mean, I like that I own a version where I don’t have to buy skinpacks and mods and whatever else.

Yep, it was inevitable. We can only hope there’s as much backlash for this as there was for paid mods in Steam.

I’ve been waiting for this to happen ever since Microsoft bought Mojang. There are way too many mods floating around for this game for Microsoft to not want to monetize it somehow. Now, the next step is to push this to the PC and console versions, then start squeezing out all the third party mods that aren’t going…

This is actually awful. Philpot stayed quiet and shook hands at the end like a decent human being.