And yet, it’s absolutely obliterated Lost Ark on Twitch. 10x the viewership. Amazon paid all that money and it’s wasted in a week.

Well, yes, the department did hold the company back, in a way; had they not underperformed, the company, as a whole, would have made more money. It’s not a binary thing. It’s not an albatross, no, but at the same time, this is just a thing companies do: cut underperforming areas. It’s not an unreasonable position to…

I think the problem is that there’s no LOVE for games by the decision makers and no room for any deviation from business projections. “Here’s your $50M, here’s your 100 headcount, and you have 18 months.” They hardly ever take into account the that places like id, Blizzard, etc all have a ‘It’s done when we finish…

Why not get a refund and buy it later when it is in a better state? Maybe by then it will even be cheaper. There is nothing to lose.

The “mixed feelings” in the title come off more as overwhelmed ambivalence and fatigue in the article, than like you truly have had a mixed experience with good and bad game elements. Again and again and again you bring up things that seem subjectively good, and then qualify that by saying they left you cold,…

So if an animator has problematic social media posts will they remove animations they built? 

“Neither Ubisoft nor the game reflect this journalist’s viewpoints.”

While I absolutely condemn her statements, I do not support cancel culture. Unless the statements are related to her job, it is disgusting to stalk her everywhere and demand she be fired in perpetuity. She is not some walking caricature. She is a human being with some very troublesome opinions, but those opinions are…

Should the Xbox review be updated to include a tangent about the state of the world and how you should worry about that instead of games? It’s fine to be worried about this stuff, but the messaging should be consistent.

Why do replies like these get approved, but everything I’ve ever replied or commented on stays gray?

You know, on any given day you’re alive and enjoying yourself (or not), there are millions of people suffering. Disease, poverty, violence, slavery, and ethnic genocide literally happen every day. The pandemic is just a newer blip on the radar of human distress.

Stay classy.

As someone who’s legitimately excited about a Biden presidency, the notion that having ‘a different old white man sitting behind the Resolute desk’ would somehow make the ‘worst people’ ‘go away’ is... a bit much to take in a PS5 review. And kind of creepy, honestly. I’m not saying there’s no reason to feel that way,…

I actually don’t have any revolutionary info for there’s absolutely no scientific evidence to support that it’s a real phobia. It’s not recognized by any medical body.

but it’s estimated that 16% of people suffer from it. I am, unfortunately, one of them.

No, it’s completely fake. Some people posted a bunch of pictures of maggots and shit crawling out of people’s skin, said “If you are afraid of these images, you have a phobia of small holes,” which is extremely stupid because that’s gross and disgusting and scary to everyone, and a bunch of people self-diagnosed…

Trypophobia is made-up internet meme, like hating the word “moist” or having strong feelings about pineapple on pizza.

It's gonna be how we Latin Americans suffer with our governments... We always choose the "Lesser Evil" because there are no good choices... It's depressing 

Yeah there’s some real shaming going on lately, specifically for the people who play this game.

The original release window was April. The pandemic didn’t really start affecting timelines until March. It was never going to hit that April target regardless of the pandemic.

But of course, everyone understood that first pushback...but they threw out an exact date in September as the new date and then still had to…