my dude, I’ve gotta stop you right there on that last line and drop a cold hard truth on you: collectible card games have always, since the beginning of time, been the progenitors of the modern gachapon model of “get people to buy a whole lot of junk in pursuit of the 1/50 chance of the thing they actually want”

No, the reality is that most investors don’t give a tinker’s damn about what the companies they invest in are doing to their workers. All they care about is anything that affects how much money they earn on their stocks.

No. The decline has nothing to do with any backlash. The reason the stocks declined was because the fantastic return investors were already seeing didn’t meet expectations. That’s right; a $500M opening on the best selling Call of Duty ever somehow wasn’t enough. Shareholders want more, and when they get it, they…

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

That’ll work!

Good.

Man I’m hoping for the best here but ugh! At this point it feels like Microsoft buying game studios is like rich people baseball cards. They buy them just to say they got them and then put them away in the attic. Never to be seen or doing anything interesting ever again.

“We have not yet seen the full core reengage in Destiny, which has led to the underperformance against our expectations to-date.”

Oh yeah, wildly buggy, I would never suggest otherwise. I just remember it being run through the ringer and written off almost entirely because of the bugs. Reminded me a bit of Far Cry 2 in reception––received as tedious and lukewarm, only to later be considered the series high point.

How unfortunate that all the effort poured into this game by talented artists and developers is going to be completely squandered in a naked grab for market relevance. Fallout 4 was fine, New Vegas was amazing; just give the bloated corpse of this game to Obsidian and let them make it good.

Give them their bonuses this…

What the fuck is this fucking sentence? Jesus. “Say what you will about this guy who perpetuates ‘no girls allowed’ toxic masculinity in the alt-right redpill breeding ground and drops n-bombs with the weak-ass 90s-era ‘just singin’ along brah!’ excuse, he presses buttons good!” is a fucking idiotic take. A n-bomb is…

but he’s damn good at video games.

This is the real problem, I think. Tucker Carlson is 49, which means he was . . . 22 or so when the Soviet Union collapsed. Megyn Kelly is 47, which means she was 20.

The Long Dark’s third episode has been delayed, Hinterland Studios wrote in their November dev diary. However, the overhauled versions of Episodes 1 and 2 and tweaks to Survival mode will arrive in December.

You: oh I might play this tonight

Unequivocally - NO. Crunch is always, 100% of the time a result of poor planning and/or management caring more about their and shareholder’s profits than the people who are actually doing the work. And this is true in far more than the AAA game industry.

Just taking the bird’s eye view here, but for me it’s yet another case of short term, stock price based, analytics overriding common human decency. Publishers demand target dates be hit, so studios demand crunch from their employees. Unless we as a society stop considering the #1 indicator of a businesses success to be…

So glad you’ve been relieved of the burden of playing this game. Thanks for sharing this critical update with your fans.

Remember how everybody’s favorite part of Breath of the Wild was the 5 seconds it took to cook food? Now imagine it’s that, but for every. single. button press. Realism! Yay! So worth spending my limited adult time on.

But that would be the smart thing to do and nobody wants to do the smart thing.