I wouldn’t say the responses are so much “homophobic” as they are “unabashedly ignorant”.  You can act like a completely brain-dead jack-ass and still not be homophobic.

Individuals not buying a game or DLC doesn’t really amount to much in the grand scheme of things.  Raising awareness, building outrage, and organizing mass boycotts and widespread bad PR, though, has the ability to actually make large companies pay attention (however temporarily)

This was addressed in other articles about this DLC.  While the original AC games relied on a genetic connection between the assassin and the person in the machine, Origins blurred that a bit, making it possible for people not related to the Assassin to dive into their genetic memories.  This gave them the ability to…

You don’t have to be creative at all to be offended by this if you’re the one being repeatedly told that your personal identity is a fleeting, and ultimately inconsequential, choice that you will eventually “grow out of”. Doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination to understand how that would be hurtful....just takes the…

You’d have a point.....except for the fact that the feature the DLC directly impacted was a feature directed at the LGBQ community in its marketing.

It amuses me how we always seem to see the same arguments trying to justify piracy as if the art and code that comprises games is the entire point...the be-all-end-all of the game.

The problem here is that your looking at the 1s and 0s that the developer released as the only part of the product with any merit, and completely missing the point, as a result.

“To be fair however, you did say they don’t track it. Or at the very least you questioned it since your reply to my statement of “they know the machine which the winning ticket was printed from, so you can’t claim you bought it somewhere else” was “I dunno”. That is exactly saying that you don’t believe they track…

*slowclap* Way to choose the snide asshole route when replying.

I dunno. I remember reading about some dude who, upon finding out he won a multi-state lottery, went to Arizona (i think) that was also a participant in said lottery, bought a cheap house, lived there for a bit to establish residency then claimed the prize winnings there because that state had more beneficial lottery…

I’m kinda on the fence about this one. On the one hand, certain companies, like Amazon, could bring a ton of new jobs to an area which, in turn, could make the city’s economy boom. On the other hand, you have the example set by sports teams holding their city for ransom for public funds to build them new stadiums even…

...and here you are, continuing to dig yourself into a hole.

The fact that you don’t see what’s wrong with that statement is a sad, sad thing.

...said just about every sexual predator in the history of the world. “She showed her ankles, so she was simply asking for it”.

Always gets me how these guys could develop this type of borderline sexual predator/rapist mindset and not get called out on it more. A lot of their justifications for their behavior is straight out of the convicted rapist handbook.

*clap* way to be the stereotypical comment thread asshole.

You guys are assuming that people are coming into this with zero knowledge and doing the research to inform themselves of all the ins and outs and ignoring the fact that many people come in with half the info and are ignorant of their ignorance.

Still not buying this. Is the info readily available? Yes. Is the info “common knowledge”? No.

Which is the opposite of ‘common knowledge’.

Or you could simply remember from trips as child or were told by someone “in the know” that you don’t need a visa if your trip is short and figure that everything is kosher. Everyone around here is assuming that people are going into this with zero knowledge and doing all the homework to be informed, but completely…