uh isn’t context important? he cheated on a video game. nobody was actually physically hurt. now you’re asking us to draw some kind of moral equivalency between a child not playing by the rules and a corporation that generates millions in profit and has infinitely easier access to legal resources suing said child?…

It’s on the company for not verifying legal age, not on the parents for kid lying about it. Like how the kid or parents aren’t at fault if a kid gets served alcohol at a bar, the bar is the one at fault.

We’re always asking “can we?” but we rarely ask “should we?”. I mean - giant open world games have been getting boring and lackluster, and then we get Breath of the Wild, which is amazing specifically because of the massive attention to detail in lovingly handmade world.

“Making matters worse, ex-Gazillion staff are also reporting that they’re not even being paid their severance or PTO, and that their medical insurance will end next week.”

I have no evidence to back this up besides decades of Old Man Cynicism, but I would bet good money that the higher-ups made off with a nice shiny…

Not a huge fan of Disney, but before anyone goes off on this - this is Gazillion’s perpetually shitty management, not Disney.

This doesn’t look like a note that was intended to elucidate the receiver as much as it was to be cathartic for the sender.

Deus Ex is NOT “some other” cyber punk rpg shooter... C’mon now

Yeah, I know I was just speaking for me. :)

That doesn’t matter, they have a CEO and I assume shareholders. If EA or 2K come at them with hundreds of millions of dollars you think they’d say no just to please people on twitter?

It’s a shame I dislike Geralt so much, it’s why I skipped 2 & 3, after forcing myself to finish 1. :/

:( What a hero she was though, even though she was essentially dying and must have felt something was (perhaps seriously) wrong, she still managed to stop her car responsibly by the side of the road and put on hazard lights... I did not know this woman or her work, but this one particular detail struck me...

That’s certainly not the intention. Hopefully people come away from a silly comparison like this feeling less enraged. Harassment is bad and never an appropriate way to express frustration or anger over something.

Great job man! Seriously Jason. You do some of the absolute best investigative journalism not only in the gaming industry, but period.

Oh my god. It’s not predatory. Fuck. He kept the game x number of days. It costs x dollars per day to keep said game. He returned it. He got charged the price of that There is nothing predatory about this. It’s just simple math and common sense.

When I was raped at my college, I was asked to sign a similar document by the administration that basically said that I had also acted inappropriately and was forbidden to have any contact with my abuser. You might think “Why would you want to have any contact with him?” I did not, but that also meant that if say he…