There was also Playstation All-Stars, which was so horrible that Square took arguably its most iconic Playstation title, and said, “Yeah... we’re just gonna let Smash use Cloud and Sephiroth if it’s all the same to you.”

And would get almost double the clicks by having a headline that formulated to incite a response.  In that regard, it follows an axiom that has worked since even before the internet.  “Any press is good press” merely became “any click is a good click.”

At the end of the day, what I see is a lack of polish and presentation that comes from having to cut corners in all aspects of development... which is a result of trying and failing to keep up a content cadence that is simply impossible to do without a sacrifice in quality.

Gamers: Progress takes too long! They need to give us more rewards faster!

Problem there is, and Greta is noticing it, is that it isn’t just that people don’t know there’s a problem. They don’t want to know there’s a problem, and actually resent being made to think about it.

I think the issue is that “without the heart” can mean some very different things that what the reviewer intended (which was that SMT does not have the relationship building mechanic that Persona does).

Have you seen how gamers react to announced delays?

Yeah, something tells me the backers requests for updates weren’t exactly measured, either.

SOME of you pre-aughts XBox games can, almost assuredly the ones that didn’t need a lot of under the hood work to make playable on new hardware standards.

Because people were complaining that they had to buy their games again every single console generation.

See also, “communication” really only means, “I want to yell at developers for ruining my fun.”

The 3DS is the other one, not the Switch.

You’ll find a lot of companies are moving away from “in the field” marketing and sales, especially as stores are moving away from “on the shelf” to increasingly more of an online presence.

It sounds like the plan (at least to me) is that $50 is going to be a catch all price for everything they eventually add to the service so that they don’t feel compelled to make another tier when they start adding Gamecube or Game Boy titles or other first party DLC (and thus start all this drama all over again).

Displeased people find reasons for their displeasure.

There are some things where you know even if there’s no stated law that it’s not the right thing to do. For example, just because you don’t see a speed limit sign next to a school, doesn’t mean you should be driving 120 past it.

Long story short, they weren't going to put too many resources into something a minute fraction of players were ever going to see.

It sounds like those taxes are being imposed by the factions controlling those areas, rather than the developers, though.

That's exactly it.  There are mechanically three types of characters.  Swordfighters are if anything UNDERrepresented.