The headline is missing the word “profitably” at the end. They could hire other studios to make more games simultaneously. It’s not a finite resource. 

I can’t believe you’ve come here to console-shame. /s

The next single player steam game on the top selling list is Jedi Survivor at #5 which has 1492 ppl playing right now, nowhere near the 6800 number the article claims is so low...  

Yup. I didn’t pick up Hogwarts, because it’s not the kind of thing I wanted to put money towards, but this is such an inane article. Shocking news: single player RPG isn’t a live-service game!

It’s a single player RPG, and like the headline says it’s been 6 months after release with several high profile games that have launched in the interim and soaked up the limelight.

Fair point. Also Bialik is a terrible person, so it is good to hate her.

I know the writers here hate Mayim Bialik, but putting her picture here implies that she is willing to cross the WGA line for Jeopardy - when in fact the opposite happened. She already left the show to support the WGA and Ken Jennings crossed the WGA line to film the latest episodes.

You should change the picture.

Plus it’s a free upgrade on Steam if you owned Quake 2 already?! That’s insane.

Also, it was a free upgrade for those that already owned it on Steam [like me :) ]. I can’t say it the same is true for the other platforms.

So we know that they’re short, but do we know *how* short? The videos of the Rio mission were like 15 minutes, so I assume this is around 45 mins of gameplay for $15? 

What? The Physics puzzles they jammed into that tiny Switch is pretty impressive. Definitely a programming achievement.

If we’re being pedantic, then we might as well mention that ToTK also has a much wider gulf between its critic score and user score?

I can’t even imagine them recasting Luke Skywalker or Obi-Wan for a new movie, since they’ve started using CGI to recreate the old actors

Should’ve stolen the pet idea from Torchlight, imo.

It was the same story with the X-Men and Fantastic Four. Everyone loves a conspiracy, even when the ready answer that “sometimes comics go through a period where they aren’t what you like” is right there. As if there’s some smoke-filled room where Marvel executives arm-wrestle their editorial staff and/or contract…

I think it’s also important to understand the difference between “overrated” and “bad”. I think FF7 is a very good game, it’s not in my top 5 of the series but it’s a very good game among very good games. I also think it’s overrated in how people tend to regard it. It was certainly technically groundbreaking and did a…

It’s worth what people are willing to pay for it. If not enough people buy it, watch it go on sale quick.

I remember when I achieved the age where I had to make a sound to either get down to or get up off the floor. Time makes fools of us all.

Why does it say ‘Former Pro Cyclist’ and not ‘Well Known Horrible Cheater’ or ‘Got Rich Hustling Stupid Rubber Bracelets’?

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