This is why hearthstone can never be a true competitive game. It is far too random.

The only people that loot boxes etc... ‘prey’ on are those who are incapable of delaying their own gratification.

I...you’ve never met an alcoholic or looked into the doctorate of AA and it’s ilk, have you?

Even the ‘more expensive to make’ is yet another fig leaf they put on it.

Get. Them. All. Let every fucker who thought his job was his toy box shit his pants with every announcement thinking he might be next.

Nah. I think it’s all pretty much bullshit no matter how you slice it.

As has been said multiple times, EA doesn’t want to make money. They want too make ALL the money. If they can’t make ALL the money, the game is a failure.

This right here is my exact issue with this stupid game. Everything about it is awesome from the class play balance to the huge maps and the mountain of content. It is finally a dream star wars multiplayer game and they’ve boned it with a f2p p2w loot crate model in a full priced game.

It’s fine that you have to grind for nearly two days to unlock Luke Skywalker, the dude who Star Wars is largely about?

EA, why you gotta do this, man. This game is fun. The bones of it are great. The shooting mechanics are on point. It’s fucking gorgeous. It absolutely nails the Star Wars feel and atmosphere. It’s packed with content. It’s vastly improved over the first one. You’ve got everything you need to make this a fantastic…

But you can buy all of this for the in game currency. Real money are there just in case. So everything is fine.

Except that this is gating entire characters, not skins. Imagine how pissed everyone would be if you had to play ~40 hours to gain enough credits to buy Mercy and other popular characters in Overwatch, all while Blizzard advertised in-game currency.

But even then, Batman’s always been about having tech gear way more advanced than anything else in the world. It’s gotten a bit blurrier in recent years, but it still holds true. This isn’t really all that different. It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if Batman is the only one in this era to have a motorcycle or…

Worker and consumer rights are absolutely moral issues, largely because compensation for labor and the cost of goods (at least under capitalism) is fundamentally exploitative in execution. Usually, we roll with it and that’s fine. For instance, I don’t have a problem giving my guy at the bodega a buck for a soda even…

Okay, some further editorial.

Loot crates have always been a moral issue that the industry (publishers, devs, journalists, influencers, and whoever else) has mostly ignore or dismissed and that’s incredibly screwed up. Even cosmetic focused crates, which don’t affect gameplay, use specific audio/visual cues and…

I couldn’t disagree more with this. Max joins them in trick-or-treating, because even though she has absorbed Billy’s personality a bit, she wants friends. Her blunt refusal to say something, and then jumping into the group is her way of trying to cope with it, of being involved and not saying she is a part of the…

Not to take away from this, but I’m honestly most upset that the tripwires never come up. They have a whole thing about watching Hopper build the tripwires, explain them to Eleven, and then, aside from a few times where someone clearly steps over them, we never hear about them again.

Max’s big moment isn’t when she stabs her brother with the needle or the dance at the end. I feel like it’s pretty well spelled out that her moment to shine is directly after that scene. She’s the one who drives the other party members to the tunnels so they can light the fire bomb and distract the demodogs, she even…