Shoutout to Zeboyd Games, whose random encounter system in Breath of Death VII (and CSTW) was basically perfect. Every time you entered a new area, there was a set cap on the number of random encounters that you could... encounter. If you do all of those encounters, you are slightly ahead of the power curve. You will…

There are not 65 million HTPC users. And the current mainstream options such as Roku or Apple TV are not Steam users on those platforms.

Were that the case, they'd probably have another plan in place instead of just letting it die. The prior and current efforts more accurately indicate that they just do not care about becoming the gatekeeper for this market.

It shouldn't be theirs. That is what an open ecosystem is about, not having someone like Valve or Apple or Microsoft or whoever take a 15-30% cut off the top.

The storefront they buy games from is irrelevant to Microsoft, because they are mostly interested in selling Office licenses and keeping people familiar with their tools and ecosystem to drive business users to their systems.

At current, 1.11% of Steam users agree with you. 18 full percent less than users on the much hated Windows 8.

sure, if branding is more important to you than the operating system that it's actually running

yep, I'm sure Microsoft is super pissed about that install base of 65 million windows PCs

"Over 3 million Xbox One consoles were sold to consumers in 13 countries before the end of 2013."

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Where's Street Fighter: The Movie Ryu? (Top left)

So... are you saying that you don't put sriracha on your eggs?

Penny Arcade decided to shut down all their non Penny Arcade activities. PAR is closed, and all of the non-Penny Arcade TV shows (LRR, Extra Credits, etc.) are no longer part of PATV.

Currently yeah, medical dispensaries are all over the place. You do need a card to buy from them. Retail stores are expected to open around May/June at the earliest.

you capitalized #CatDoMe wrong

All part of the Year of Luigi

But how does it compare to this?

Japanese consumers followed where Monster Hunter went.

I think you made a mistake