Steam won’t let you review a game you don’t own. This rule means they don’t let you review a game you got for free. It’s a good rule. Review scores should not have the potential to be skewed positively by a company who chooses to hand out a bunch of free copies in the hopes of bumping up their score.

Double meaning of dwell.

Completely different scenario, Apple and Google colluded with each other and the class action group won damages on the basis that this secret agreement lowered their opportunities and earning potential. In this case the employee himself signed a contract not to work for a direct competitor and not to poach former…

“The overlap between people who play survival games and those who play tower defense games is rather limited.” Complete conjecture, my gamer friends and I play all types of games. In fact, I’ve even never met a gamer that only played one genre...except the sports game bro, and even he has Call of Duty.

You’re completely ignoring the part about him allegedly poaching employees on top of it. Also, no one said he couldn’t earn a living, just not work for a direct competitor. Someone else that also sells PC games on Steam is a direct competitor even if gamers would say “well they sell a 3rd person tower defense, and…

Best game to never get a sequel in history.

This is somewhat different in that they lost licensing rights to items within the game (likely paid for the rights to use certain tanks, planes, guns, etc. not sure why you wouldn’t just design new ones but whatever) One time in my gaming career has something like this happened to me. X-men Legends (or maybe one of…

No, if they lost licensing rights, they can't sell it anywhere without being sued for a cut of the profits.

You bring up some good points, but there’s a very large “this is the big picture, so that’s why” bend to your posts and those that agree with you...which ironically to me seem to be missing the actual big picture. Yes, split screen might have been a statistically lesser used feature, but as you can see here, for the…

Have you ever done this before? No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

I miss a realm reborn now kinda, for what it's worth; a far far better game than ESO, not even in the same league.

My friend and I unsubbed within a month, and loved skyrim and enjoy yet are getting bored of mmos. It might be better now, but the bots were so incredibly ubiquitous that I was downloading and trying 3rd party anti spam addons because the in game report option was so woefully inadequate. Then I was like..wait a…

Saying that you don't think you have to apologize for wanting to be good just for the sake of being good= acting like you deserve a prize? The annoying part about her piece is that it doesn't leave any room for people to actually just be good. If you think people are good just so they can show all their friends how…

You have to have heard of someone before to give a shit about them *shrug*

We're closer to each other's views than I previously thought actually, hooray for staying civil. I still think that penalizing score, or not being able to get the achievement or other carrot *is* punishing the bad behavior, maybe not much or not enough in her view (sorry, I won't imply your implicit agreement with her…

My degree is in psychology, with enough funds I could easily study this scientifically with double blinds etc. It's not "how its done" here because it would not be kind to the points she is making in my estimation. It does make it less rigorous to ignore the counterexamples, and for once we will fully agree that "Of…

Not sure if I can relate, as I've just never had a problem playing as a female protagonist, even one that wears clothes.

Well thanks for pointing it out anyway actually, it wasn't my aim so if it reminded me to be more civil, you did me a favor.

Sorry to pick on "full of" it was just an example of the lack of specificity all these discussions have.. but I feel you're being obtuse here. It definitely matters whether or not X exists in a majority of games when we're actually talking about the creeping prevalence of X. Nothing could be more to the point in my…

Sorry, more civil from here on out. I just plain do not agree that putting a possibility in the game encourages that behavior in and of itself, it's completely wrong to me as by itself, it literally can not do such a thing. In GTA I could choose to crash cars into buildings over and over, or jump off cliffs, or see…