It’s a lot safer to not send troops overseas to shoot brown people and create conflict in the first place.

Well not everyone.  

I feel so bad for microsoft’s employees. Like, I’m imagining I’m some low level code monkey at microsoft. On one hand I’d be thrilled to be working on/with such incredible cutting edge tech. On the other hand, I’d also be aware that I’m directly helping the american government waste grotesque amounts of money in…

It’s weird, the priorities our government has. Once upon a time, they accused Microsoft of having a monopoly and tried to break them up using anti-trust laws because they bundled Internet Explorer with Windows.

“Our games and company aren’t political.”

Why not just push forward with the Next-Gen updates? I genuinely want this game, but I don’t want the watered-down and held-together-with-tape version.

Agree with everything here. And too many games are taking this mmo-lite approach with dailies and battle passes and limited time events and the majority of us do not want to only play one game as end all be all. And i know for people like me who have OCD completion tendencies it frustrates and mentally hurts so much…

You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it.

I feel like comparing WWII to Iraq is extremely disingenuous when the causes were very different. War is never good, but WWII you have an extremely legal justification for partaking in (our country was literally attacked). I’d be interested in a “realistic” WWII game because absolutely war crimes were perpetrated…

Curious!

You don’t actually know that - you’re making an assumption that that must be true. Gamebiz also managed to ask him some tough questions, and they didn’t host the reveal, which appears to suggest that the only thing you had to do to “get the interview” was request to do an interview with him. It’s a game that is coming…

there would not have been any deaths in the Iraq and Afghani campaigns if we simply hadn’t invaded. the fact that you miss that point to argue, that “well acktually” it was only our destabilization of the region that caused the deaths, and not all of it was directly due to our soldiers murdering civilians...is…

This type of game has always had a market. I mean, Call of Duty has been peddling xenophobic power fantasies for the last 10 years while making billions. They just had the common sense to veil it behind fictional names.

My thoughts exactly about his line saying no one wants to play as an Iraqi civilian. I mean, for one thing, This War of Mine did very well for itself and almost certainly sold more copies than this war crime simulator could ever hope to.

They could have made a great game if they’d chosen to tell a story of both a US marine and an Iraqui civilian (Similar to Memories Retold), with both getting enough screen time.

That game is fantastic. MS move to... pretty much remove console barrier must be the best thing to happen to gaming in many years. I just hope more companies follow this trend.

Why does it bother you to see racist white folks called out? 

Literally gambling, but with out any regulation, restriction, oversight, or anything that gambling deals with.

It’s the same argument billionaires have for Trickle Down Economics... and it’s as bullshit now as it was then.