That’s simple to say, but as gamers demonstrate time and time again, a lot harder to do. The problem there is a bit on the dev side; especially in gatcha games, they actively seek that feedback loop that makes it hard to say, “Okay, I’ve done enough here.”

This is a fundamental problem with “games as a service” as a whole, not just gatcha games in particular, and it’s a problem with both the business and the audience.

Well, what I’d wager is that it’s less about the money, and more that someone (or someones) high up in Cloudflare’s corporate structure is very sympathetic to reactionary causes. After all, they’ve had no problem shutting down access for other sites that crossed their ToS, regardless of the money involved.

Yeah, I rolled my eyes at that point too.

“Accidentally.”

Tie for worst: All of them.

She’s not allowed in.  Too deadly.

My initial thought was that she looked like a derivative of the main character in Scalebound.

Any concession is a surrender.

I think the “alleging” is doing the work there; it’s saying someone making claims of fact that aren’t true is committing defamation, and is subject to the penalties listed.

On top of that, while Genshin’s prices for what you get are rather ridiculously on the high end (it’s something like $30 or so for a “guaranteed” 4-star), it’s generally innocuous about it. You actually have to go quite out of your way to find the page to straight up buy currency.

At the end of the day, there are a lot of gamers who are more than happy to let a bunch of whales addicted to gambling ruin their lives (and potentially the lives of people around them) if it means those people subsidize the games they play.

If it’s any consolation, they would have resigned her to dust regardless of her skin color.  One nature of these sort of games is that there is VERY little compulsion to go back and fix old characters and/or mechanics, nor are you really rewarded by players if you do (the people who have the money want the next new…

Well, at least in Genshin Impact’s case, there is reason to think they aren’t supposed to be Japanese, considering they allegedly base their settings on real world areas and cultures.

The lesson I gleaned of the whole thing was that the line between hero and monster is a lot thinner that one would like to acknowledge, and also depends a whole lot on perspective and if you get your way.

“I will never stop looking for or at wieners,” he told me. “Wieners will be on my mind until the day I die.”

Anyone who thinks gamers are unusually numerous or toxic community have never seen the typical European futbol rivalry fixture.

While I was one that figured Sumeru was referring to the Sumer region, and thus expecting more Mesopotamia rather than Egypt... it’s not like the people of Sumer were particularly “white” either.

Let’s not dismiss that Platinum seems to have a bit of that Nintendo Magic (TM) that makes their software look and run beautifully on Nintendo hardware.  If they had a significant hand in the port, it doesn’t surprise me that they got it running well.

Could you imagine walking into a Taco Bell, and getting pissed off that they won’t make you a Big Mac?