It’s one of the reasons why “the founding fathers” of the USA were so against patriotism and national allegiance.

You’re absolutely right. NFTs are a pyramid scheme in which people artificially inflate the “value” of their NFT by buying it themselves at an outsized cost and then reselling it, themselves, at a reduced cost to make it seem like a “deal”.

I agree that developers are mostly soulless zombies these days. They have no inspiration, often aren’t allowed it anyway, and yeah. Games are suffering from this cookie-cutter mass appeal nonsense.

Maybe covid had something to do with it but it’s also not cheap, at all, to do this professionally or even semi-professionally.

SEGA is a corporate entity as well and their change in attitudes on how to engage in fan engagement frankly has a lot to do with them still being in business.

I think the best kirby games are kind of boring but also have optional challenging aspects. They should be accessible to single digit kids but they can also be rewarding for seasoned gamers, as well.

He’s a coward either way and he’s valuing his own self preservation over that of thousands of others, even children. So, it doesn’t fucking matter at this point. Plenty of other high profile russian citizens have had the courage to speak out.

No, that’s gaslighting and bait. There’s also thick hypocrisy within your own statement; if you actually believe it in its entirety.

Yeah but also Russia is deliberately targeting civilians. Sometimes, or perhaps at this point often, ONLY civilians.

Yeah it happens but that’s not what is happening here. There’s also plenty of ways to get around that. When aviation and weapon companies were wanting ridiculous amounts for licensing the developers made it known and made it clear for the reason why they either weren’t developing the game or making it generic. They…

It’s not just the microtransactions. It’s the fake online requirement for offline content. This game seriously made me stop caring about Sony entirely. I don’t trust them and thanks to the weird generation so far, I didn’t get suckered into getting a PS5 before they pulled out the rug.

Honestly, they should just go back to adding cheats to games via passwords or menus. It was common place in most home releases when Arcade ports were huge.

They’re not stupid about the economics of this. This is called lottery game development. The payoff is huge if you win it. Risk is minimal if you play smart.

To say nothing of how Sony tends to support their online components for the shortest amount of time. Even compared to Nintendo in some instances. Except, of course, Nintendo games don’t become functionally bricked after online support is removed.

I was interested in Sony and Playstation 5 until this. Only idiots like being exploited. Fuck Sony. Fuck Playstation. (And probably soon if idiots keep letting this exploitation slide, Fuck Gaming)

Squaresoft was a great logo. Square-Enix was and has always been a harbinger of doom and loathing. If you were lucky, that loathing would be replaced with a flawed but decent enough, if soulless, game.

You’re not entitled to infringe on someone’s legal rights because you want to. Stop venting your rage at companies and start demanding modern copyright and fair use laws.

I’d like to point out at this point that this is an industry that has far more people who “get” gaming than when this industry first started. When you’d have generic suits running things that they didn’t fully understand.

lol you realize that people thought almost EXACTLY like you at almost every era of war? People thought that about WWI, even WWII because of the post-war boons. Even the revolutionary American war wasn’t expected to happen because of trade connections and military power dynamics. Until we fought dirty and changed the…

It starts from a simple concept that a democratic government requires representation. People are self-serving so it isn’t crazy to think that the interests of companies should also be represented.