I don’t think this comment is being taken the right way.  I think the game sucks, so it might as well be free because it’s so damn cheap as it stands.

I really hope it gets overhauled. I bought the game on launch and returned it within two or three days. It really needed more time in the oven, and everyone could see that. I am disappointed that they tried to hide their woes behind such a thin veneer and also had the audacity to have that “roadmap” up for so long.…

Technically, it is? You pay once to own it and then play for free, but the price to own it is so cheap it might as well be free. There are countless images of the disc copies of the game marked super low, sometimes as low as $5 USD. I mean, yeah... it’s not free, but when it costs the same as a burger and fries I…

And I do love to hear your voice, Heather! But... not when I don’t expect to hear your voice. Like in a meeting. Or... in the bathroom. Not that I browse Kotaku in the bathroom or anything like that, but DEFINITELY in meetings.

I set the site to mute in Chrome.  Still didn’t really have the intended effect, since they are still playing immediately.  So Kotaku is back on my HEAVILY moderated Ad-Block list.  I just blocked the entire video element, which means I’ll miss a lot of the tinier non-youtubed videos.

I think there are a healthy bit of people wanting to see Google fail at something like this. Yes, they have shuttered some projects, some of which seemed like they’d be huge.
 
Their developers are encouraged to try new things and work on their own weird projects. They experiment. They’re willing to take chances on…

EXACTLY. They’re making a big bet on this, but they also have... the worlds largest dataset. They can make a pretty damn good guess on how well it will work out, and they can tailor the results to people.  I think this will do surprisingly well.

It really is a super tired “joke” at this point. I completely understand the concerns over lag, data caps, quality, etc, but if this were really going to be a “flash in the pan” they wouldn’t have spent something like the last 7(?) years working on the internal infrastructure (which includes adding endpoints within…

I was very unimpressed. I played TD1 on launch and it was a mess, but still kinda fun. The fixes and reconfiguring over the next year really made it better. TD2 was just bleh. I felt like it played like a totally different game in a lot of ways.

One of the best sequences from that show!  One of paper equals four of coin!

They better make an appearance this Halloween.  I DEMAND SHITTY CANDY.  I still have Cayde 6's Ascendant Artichoke in my bank.  Never gonna let that one go.

It’s an Albany expression.

This is a criminally underrated comment.

Yeah it was. What really sucked is that then many of those people blamed Hello Games for what they themselves had rolled themselves into. Some of them carry that hate to this day, 3 years later. I knew it couldn’t be that complex from looking at what they showed, but I wanted more. Still, the day it released I played…

I can see that, but that’s on the individual. There’s actual content details being released about this patch now, though. While this particular concept hasn’t been announced, it’s entirely natural for people to speculate.

I’m in the “wait and see” camp, but data mining has provided some interesting info in the past.…

Some keen-eyed folk have broken down the trailer video and think that’s going to be in this expansion. There’s even some speculation, based on screen shots and previous data mining, that fully customizable ships (parts, paint, etc) may be part of it.  This has been requested for so long, since the beginning of the…

If I had to guess, I would think that his parents are not native from the US and he picked up secondary accents from them. Two of my cousins have an English mother and American father, and they have weird lilts on specific words and phrases.

The same!  The burger chips were just too weird for me.  I tried them once and I couldn’t finish the bag.

For one brief, glorious, summer there was a flavor called “Late Night Taco”.  It was FUCKING AMAZING.  The flavor magicians even found a way to make the powder taste like fresh lettuce.  I ate an embarrassing amount of doritos that summer.

Georgia coffee... when I was in the Navy stationed in Misawa for a few months I drank so much cold Georgia coffee. I had a 3-4 cans a day habit, since we were all bored out of our minds working 14 hour days with only 6 hours of actual work to do. The two vending machines in our hangar were constantly out of cold cans,…