This is the way.

You don’t have to buy one if you don’t want to

They should make one with a touchscreen

For a show that no one likes it sure does seem to generate a lot of column inches.

It sounds like that is what he was actually saying, and Jezebel just quoted him out of context.

I don’t think that’s true at all, notwithstanding the article - mods add value to a game and monetizing them incentivizes people to do that. Bethesda famously tried to let people monetize mods a few years ago and had to back down because players didn’t want to pay for people’s work that they were previously getting…

How do you feel about people who write plugins for commercial products, such as the people who write Visual Assist? Are they leeching off Microsoft, should they release their plugin for free instead of charging for it?

Interesting point but it would depend on the licensing agreement.

Not if it makes less than 100k usd though.

The difference is, if someone makes a mod of a game, people still have to buy the game in order to play the mod. So it’s as if, as a musician, someone remixes your album but in order to listen to the remix, people have to buy your album too. I think most musicians would find that acceptable.

There is no such thing as a standalone product in software.

A modding ecosystem adds value to a game meaning more people will buy it, some mod commercialization models gave the developer a cut, and ultimately the modder bought the game themselves, so no, actually, the game developer benefits in numerous ways from the use of their. Also Unity is free if you make under 100,000…

Yeah and people should write their own engine each time as well, I’m so sick of people leeching off the work of Unity and Unreal engine. They should also write their own programming language and operating system, it’s just scummy to leech off the work of Bjarne Stroustrup and Microsoft all the time. And they should be…

They don’t have much in common apart from a few superficial similarities. But one of those similarities is they both have a small campaign to try and get them into the rock & roll hall of fame as part of a drive to get more women in there.  So now that Kate Bush is in, I would like to see Tori too.

Tori Amos next please

It’s a show about helmets.

You forgot “the price of AAA games should never increase regardless of inflation”

The Vita is the PSP2. You should refer to this as the PSP3.

If anything what they’re learning from this is that if you release a buggy game and promise to fix it, you’ll get more articles in the games press which helps let people know the game is out in the first place. I wonder how many people read this and thought “oh the Last of Us Part 1 is out on PC now!”

Well, Russia actually.  1917.