Yeah... because you aren’t actively playing the game.

Yeah man, it was my four year old’s first movie in the theater.  He had a blast, and so did I!

“The plot for The Super Mario Bros Movie is paper-thin. Narratively, the characters are static bordering on inert; there’s no arc or growth to any of them. It’s just one action set piece to the next; your enjoyment is intimately tied to your pre-existing knowledge of these characters and your ability to recognize a…

Oh damn, they’ve finally realised the Sonic social-media team is the studio’s true A-team and let them make a game!

Fuck, are we now going to have to be nostalgic about corporate marketing events?!?

I want to like this game but it puts a lot of road blocks between you and the fun.

Looking at the player numbers and the fact that they’re taking the game offline to overhaul it, I’d say there’s a pretty good chance that the game will just be canceled. It’s all a question of how much money WB is willing to invest in a product that’s already failed once. Remember Amazon’s Crucible? It launched,…

Calling this now, but one of if not the primary argument in court is going to be that by having something called season 1 then the game has implicitly been released

I mean this IS the danger of early access stuff. Ppl play your game during that period, slowly drift away because it needs work and when it realises they feel they already played it so why bother, or have generally moved on to different things 

I am sure the 15 page terms of service we all read before playing covers them from any sort of thing

The game probably would’ve been hugely successful if they had launched it like a normal fighting game just like Smash Bros. The early beta numbers proved that, but once players tried the game out and found out that most, if not all the characters are locked behind a paywall. Obviously the player base shrank because of…

Made worse by how abused the “beta”/”Early access” tags are these days. With games going years in “beta” even though everyone knows that it is functionally released. No one expect a MONTHS long open beta with MTX to “unrelease” these days.

It isn’t.  I’ve seen this movie before.

The July launch you referenced was the actual beta period. I participated in the closed alpha, which was last May, and then the game came back in July for an open beta before launching with season one in August. They have just now decided that the game was in beta the whole time because they fucked up so bad. You…

Good for them. These hackers are fucking awful: “Just because our country is literally trying to murder you is no reason for you to not... localize the game for Russians”.

Entitled pricks. Like, sorry - the devs aren’t monkey forced to dance for your amusement.

Over the long run, 99 percent of Funkos are worthless outside of whatever depraved joy fans get from occasionally making eye contact with the ones lining their shelves.

First drip now stunting? I can't keep up with you kids. At least you didn't quote your own tweet in the article.

No, gaslighting based on the score would be if the game told the player all racers were weighted the same, and that the player must be imaging that they’re being penalized for being a certain character. The player “feeling tricked or lied to” doesn’t make it gaslighting. Gaslighting is about convincing the person…

Instead, the secret point bonuses led people to feel gaslit about how difficult it was to achieve three stars on lighter characters.

I haven’t played this game, but are those numbers significant? Like how many points does a winner usually have, 50,000, or 95? Those numbers by themselves mean nothing without scale. Just like the distance from earth to the sun is 1.