The price has remained the same, but the profits AAA developers/publishers bring in has increased exponentially. FAR more than the cost of development has increased. The price hike is unnecessary.

Exactly. If your kid isn’t a nightmare, and is on the older side of that age range, I can’t really find the will to be upset about letting them entertain themselves in a video game store for a bit. But to expect the staff to actually look out for them is insane.

Unless all the merchandise is behind a glass case, any retail job is going to require the employees to straighten the store up after customers. Sucky though it may be... that is basically the job.

It would have to be gamestop policy and gamestop is not about to piss off any parents. Hanging a handwritten sign in your store is a big no no. I’m a former store manager and I had to fight for my assistant manager to not be fired for hanging up a ‘we are not a day care’ sign on our door one summer day when he was…

I worked at a mall location like a decade ago and this was a issue then. If I’m being perfectly honest though, it didn’t particularly bother me. It’s not like we were expected to feed the kids or change diapers, and kids are generally shy, so really they mostly just played demos. Maybe as a former latchkey kid myself…

Leaving your (well behaved) kid to their own devices in public is one thing. Kids have the right to exist in public space. Expecting the employees to be responsible for keeping kids from wandering off... very much NOT the same thing.

I’m old enough to remember my parents giving me $5 and a Coke, and leaving me at Aladdin’s Castle while they did their thing at Dillard’s, or whatever. If I ran out of tokens I’d hit KB Toys. Last ditch was the record store or Sears, in case they had a video game demo station set up. They knew where to find me. Of…

Ok, considering how long Gamestop has been around and such a common part of the mall footprint, how does any employee today not realize that kids end up in there alone.

Hey, guess what, if you didn’t make your game a fucking Epic exclusive, I would have bought it.

I imagine the EGS exclusivity hasn’t exactly helped sales either. I know I’d like to check it out, once the exclusivity expires.

It’s a reboot of a second-tier open world crime franchise that steers away from the one thing that set the franchise apart in the first place (wacky, over-the-top irreverence).

Making a better game probably would have helped. A lot of the reception that I saw online was something along the lines of “I was really excited about this but it looks like it sucks”, especially with all the technical issues that accompanied the blah characters, story, setting, and gameplay.

This news is going to please the worst people.

Splatoon lifted its ideas directly from super mario sunshine, not portal 2. 

I hope Nintendo sues the $h!t out of them.

“If Rockster contact me with an offer it won’t be leaked” - an easier case of extortion a prosecutor could never have.  Holy shit, was this hacker stupid to lay it out in writing like this.

Yeah like you can plausibly defend yourself to get more or less a slap on the wrist if it was just theft, saying you did it as a lark to see if you could, for the notoriety, to point out security flaws, or didn’t think it would be a big deal, etc., but extortion is whole other legal ballgame. You can’t pretend to not…

Portal 2 had paint guns? Was it part of the Co-Op mode?

Half-Life 2 is the best example, more than 90% of the original half-life 2 code was leaked online. without any way to really stop it (the DMCA was still very young at the time) valve chose to scrap everything and re-do it from the ground up which delayed the game a few years.

The stupid motherfucker was the first one to broach the topic of money. They can add extortion to whatever else Rockstar is going to drop on their head.