If you breed Pokemon for competitive play, your rejected breeding failures are all "almost perfect." If you are breeding from parents with 5 flawless IVs using Destiny Knot/Everstone, all the offspring will have at least 4 flawless IVs.

Here's what's happening:

I don't think people really have an idea of the outpouring of rage and tears that would erupt on forums and websites like Kotaku if Bungie enabled matchmaking on Nightfall.

WoW has a special faceroll difficulty for the random versions of its raids. If you're familiar with the normal or heroic versions, the extent to which the raids are dumbed down for random groups is illustrative of how bad random matchmaking is.

No. It's a gradual process. But look at that beard.

Content that is designed for random matchmaking needs to be tuned to random groups. If the raid is tuned for organized groups, and they offer random matchmaking for it, it is going to lead to a lot of bad experiences.

It's based on experience with matchmaking in other games. Hard content and random groups are a bad combination.

Calling it right now: In the "Walking Dead" series finale, Rick will finally become Santa Claus.

I have a feeling that a lot of people would still use websites like DestinyLFG.net even if there was matchmaking, because those groups tend to be better than matchmade groups.

Random matchmaking for raids would lead to failure. It would lead to abuse and toxicity and rage. It would be bad for the game. If you can't be bothered to find groups without random matchmaking, the content is probably too hard for you.

Automatic matchmaking only works for grouping players for content that is very easy. This is a lesson Blizzard learned during WoW's Cataclysm expansion.

This will make me sound old, but when I was in elementary school, the Internet was pretty limited, and there was very little video game community stuff. Certainly nothing like YouTube or GameFAQs today.

If the result of "Wrath of the Lich King" was to replace Arthas with Bolvar, only to have Bolvar turn into a Lich King exactly like Arthas, then the whole thing was kind of a jerk-off. I'd rather see the Scourge fight the demons than have Bolvar get corrupted and revert the Scourge back to the pre-WotLK status quo.

I think gamers will tolerate microtransactions if the underlying game is of the highest quality and the monetization scheme isn't unfair or abusive. The problem is that the vast majority of F2P microtransaction games are very bad and their payment prompts feel like a scam. Gamers don't actually hate the business…

Innervate+coin= turn 1 yeti.

"Nowadays, people aren't interested in art that's not tattooed on fat guys."

Every good deck in Hearthstone is kind of a complete dick deck, though.

I had one of these. Warlock survived by playing Jaraxxus. At the end of my turn, he was at 10 health, and was spamming "well played" emotes at me, and then he drew the mine.

There was a very large update recently, and there have been over a dozen weekly patches. I know conspiracy theorists love believing that this stuff was locked on the disc from launch, but most of the expansion files were probably in the patch two weeks ago, which, coincidentally, was around the time datamined stats…

The idea is that breeding and training your Pokemon is part of the process of building a competitive team. If you don't like that stuff, play on the simulator.