‘Viral’ marketing or whatever else you want to call it, the fact is they purposefully obfuscated the origins of the mod to create hype, thus misleading people. This isn’t a judgment call on the ethics of doing so mind you, but the fact does remain, they mislead people.

“I didn’t mean to mislead anyone.”

Ahh, but what happens when Chairith Painsborough interrupts the match?!

From what I understand having read a few articles about this in the past (please correct me, anyone, if you are an expert in Japanese law as I certainly am not), as long as you are acting in public interest, such as being a corporate whistleblower, then the law is waived. But if you are doing it without a public…

I generally have to drop $100 just to get ONE of the new 5* banner units.  If I'm unlucky, I buy another $100 pack and save the leftovers for next banner.  I don't also whale on the weapons unless I REALLY like the characters, but Genshin can get very expensive very quickly.  

The game industry will never freeze out folks who prove they know how to make stuff. Demonstrating you can do the job is more valuable than a degree for many game industry disciplines. And mod making has been an entry way to games for over a generation now and that won’t change.

To play devil’s advocate, Platinum has been developing on Nintendo hardware for like the last ten years. I would trust Platinum to do a port of a modern game to the Switch, I dont know about Square Enix’s ability.

How is the 5th best selling console of all time a “niche bit of hardware”?

I can’t imagine having the time or mental headspace to be a Kingdom Hearts fan when I could use that energy to have a second master’s degree.

If what I’ve heard about Quebec and this law are true, it is 100% about getting immigrants to not even consider moving there.  They are pretty much setting up the perfect “We don’t want immigrants but we want them to leave of their own volition” law.

This was all about 3rd party games.

“Amber Heard may not be a great person”

Thank you, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills with how many dudebros saw this trial and thought “Surely this guy who had two judgements against him for beating his wife was the hero all along.”

Yeah those suck too. They can both suck.

Not just that. Gamers are typically REALLY BAD with their money, and they - ‘they’ as in THE FULL INDUSTRY takes full advantage of that.

Phil Spencer is the king of saying a lot of shit. The doing is where he trips and falls.

It’s not a moral crusade to not buy a Cricket game.

It’s unlikely that that’s true.

I think he’s right in both cases: Unionizaton *as a movement* is a good thing, period. Unions as actualized, individual entities are neither inherently good nor bad. They do generally mean that employees have concerns or complaints which are not being adequately addressed, so in that sense they are an indicator of a…

I think I remember seeing someone comment on one of these types of articles before that Kyoto has pretty strict building codes for how office buildings can look.