We gotta start teaching “it’s okay to not say anything if you have nothing of value to say” in schools or something.

Try watching an actual episode or nine, not whatever “highlight reel” led you to believe all this inaccurate stuff.

“I haven’t watched the thing but I did skim it”

Can we just acknowledge how incredibly cool it is to release something like this? More of this, please, from all companies. 

I too look in admiration at rich execs having fun parties on their yachts together.

Or they can go the route of Pubg mobile and realize theres a market for PC emulator for mobile games and we will spend cash at their stupid store if they don’t ban people, just let us queue with other emulator people. Problem solved. But many corporates here the word emulator and think piracy, when in some (i.e. most) …

Because Square Enix is the king of shooting itself in the foot. They’re basically riding entirely on FFXIV right now, and I get the impression that aside from “naoki yoshida” the higher-ups have exactly zero idea why that’s successful, either. (as in, they know the success has something to do with him, but not what;…

The could rounds that I played were enough to drive home that if this was on PC I would play the hell out of it. As it stands, though, the mobile controls hurt my hands. I might pick it up again with gamepad soon.

He has nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Everyone at Blizzard is exhausted from trying to explain to everyone who learned just this week about everything this son of a bitch has done exactly why he’s still in charge.

Let’s be real, threatening to have an employee murdered and actively protecting people accused (and in one reported case, proven) of sexual assault ABSOLUTELY deserves being fired. Those are only A HANDFUL of the allegations against him.

He’s been in charge of this company for DECADES. The entire point of his obscenely high salary is that he is constantly claiming that everything the company does is related to him. You don’t get to claim credit for decades of success and say you weren’t responsible for the decades of abuse. Kotick even has a level of…

That’s what the last 6 months could have been for.

He thinks he can ride it out. No other explanation. He thinks we'll forget and move on and he can keep his vanity job.

Yeah weird how they only seem to realize the product doesn’t meet their standards of quality until after they release it for sale.

“The updated versions of these classic games did not launch in a state that meets our own standards of quality, or the standards our fans have come to expect.....but we released them because you gamers have shown you will buy any broken piece of crap day 1 lulz. We wasted so much money on QA on RDR2 for no reason!”

Exactly, the vast majority of the gaming public doesn’t give a shit or doesn’t pay attention.  They just care about if COD is working properly.

“I mean, Activision has to understand that they’re losing customers over all of this, right?”

I mean it definitely cost money to make anything back-compat. So there was a price involved. And it’s that very cost that’s preventing further work. I’m sure the pay-off hasn’t exactly stuffed their coffers.

I appreciate the dedication to emulation, but have no worries, Phil. I will continue to illegally emulate all the games that cannot be legally emulated due to licensing and other constraints.