His initial response of “well ACTUALLY we didn’t sell it, we auctioned it” was so spectacularly stupid and ill-advised that it made me actually believe him that he’s doing too much work to actually function.  

I mean let’s all be serious, they did such a shit job it would have been cheaper to not do it at all. I’ve yet to see anyone call their strategy anything other than terrible. Even this site agrees it was bad. If you’re going to do your job, maybe don’t suck at it. 

Made worse by how abused the “beta”/”Early access” tags are these days. With games going years in “beta” even though everyone knows that it is functionally released. No one expect a MONTHS long open beta with MTX to “unrelease” these days.

Cuts should *ALWAYS* start from the top. If something is going wrong, it’s *ALWAYS* the CEO’s fault. Their job is literally to anticipate problems and stop them before they happen. So if something is going wrong, the CEO has failed spectacularly at their job. They should be the first to go. After all, the reason that…

It sucks to see someone break away from a gaint and crappy publisher and continue the same lousy practices in their own business.

Best episode.

““I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.””

No, Mark, you are making 11,000 other people take responsibility for that. You are taking no responsibility.

They don’t ‘have to’. They want to make shareholders happy and they already cut their staffing to the bone. The only thing left is increased prices.

Kotaku, your update is DAYS later and none of the comments are about that. Please post it separately so we have a place to discuss after Bloomberg’s article.

Wow, this reminds me of this year’s TennoCon. I was watching the sound design panel and the chat was just full of people saying it was “boring” and that “literally no one cares about this”. I thought to myself, “You know, actually a lot of us DO care about the artistry and talent that’s needed to pull off the medium…

It’s frustrating how much money and stuff seems to just come to you once you don’t need it anymore.

To be fair, Vegeta is still one of the only three characters with an actual growth arc throughout the series.

Publishers like Ubisoft really need to just bake in private server support so people can actually continue to use what they paid for. This requirement for games to lose features the second they are no longer profitable is annoying as hell.
The DLC thing really concerns me as that really depends on what kind fo DLC are…

Not for nothing, he wasn’t bad at WrestleMania. He pulled off the Three Amigos surprisingly well. And wearing that $5 million dollar Pokemon card around his neck got some good heat.

You forgot the most important one!

So remember how Ari and Zack were calling this game’s microtransactions “not that bad” just a day or two ago?

Yeah, the fact is, it IS an exploitative game. The entire model is designed to exploit people. Just because someone doesn’t have to does not change that fact.

Here’s what I remember hearing people saying:

Doesn’t look similar at all to what’s in the trailer.

I know I’m a bit older than most streamers’ target audience (33), but I don’t understand why multiple people would watch a streamer just... cook. She’s not known for her cooking talents if she’s lighting her kitchen on fire, right?

the only thing that makes my eyes roll back into my skull is that it is yet again about marines.  at least it’s good.  will likely buy it, but why not one about an inquisitorial team?  or based on a xenos kill team instead?  i’d love to play a 40k fps from the point of view of the tau or the aeldari or a kroot or…