God, can we all stop fucking pretending that this is even remotely about the “70/30 status quo”? It’s about on-boarding new customers by making it literally impossible to find games they want on any storefront other than Epic’s. That’s all there is to it. This stuff about Epic having high-minded motives about giving…

The tone of this article, to the fact they had to apologize, to the total nothing level of offense in the messages themselves. The internet outrage culture is so tiresome. 

Certain games are intended to be consumed by certain gamers. The simple presence of an easy mode in Sekiro (or other Soulsborne games) would negatively impact the experience of the people who enjoy those games.

I never would have guessed that someone who spent $2k on a gacha game would have poor impulse control. 

No, I’m saying that if this particular game causes somebody pain, don’t play it. Same reason I wouldn’t recommend Rez to somebody with epilepsy.

Are you sure you aren’t interested in the Castlevania games? You seem moody enough.

I can dig it.

I honestly wonder if sanitization of lenguage does anything to fix the actual problems, hateful people are still as hateful than ever, homophobes wont change just because they are pressured to not use arbitrary words. Not defending this idiot’s behavior, but banning people over certain words only feels like a bandaid…

>”How hard is it to say ‘Kenta (Nathan Drake in Eng)‘?”

Since it invariably is going to come up, I don’t understand how people can scream “this is a witchhunt” or “people are too sensitive” or “this is SJW nonsense” when time and again big gaming/tech companies have proven to be navel gazing, bro-clubs who alienate anyone who isn’t a straight white male.

It’s not…

Thank you for this very thorough and detailed reporting. This seems the result of several different toxic cultures (Business, Gamer, Start-Up, etc.) all intersecting and building on one another. Very disappointing...

But we all promise to be really supportive of Elder Fahey if he’s unable to snacktaku because of his high blood pressure, right? Right everybody?... <sniffle> 

Welcome back, Fahey. I’m absolutely certain my usual bloviations wouldn’t do what I want to say justice, so I’ll just say this:

You’ve been missed, sincerely, the entire time you’ve been away, and this community did not feel whole without you. You’re a goddamned boss for clawing your way back from what you suffered,…

Did you read the article? They said they would refund anyone that want a refund. Jesus christ, you can’t do anything right anymore.

Wow, this sound pretty negative. Sounds like about a 4 out of 10 when reading the text.

I get that I don’t get to decide it, but I still see it as ridiculous and a borderline waste of time thing to get upset over. It’s a word, sounds coming from your mouth. Not to mention there was no intent to harm anybody, so it’s even less of a big deal.

even then it’s not a big deal imo

I’m black and the way I see it is if you don’t want people to say the n-word, don’t put it in your rap lyric. Honestly it’s not a big deal and like... it’s a word who cares. People give words too much power nowadays. People say “Oh but the history behind the word” and imo that’s the past and this is the present, it’s…