It’s conspicuous consumption. What to some is, “I got suckered into paying for this”, is for others, “look at me, I can afford to waste money!”

I think a lot feel this way. Insane pricing aside - most of D4's cosmetics look like hot garbage and all very similar within a given class.

Yeah. Played a lot of D2 back in the day, never bothered with 3 until I found a new sealed copy for Ps4 a couple years ago. Gave it about 15 hours and then stopped. The always online crap was too oppressive, though I’d skipped all that by waiting so long.

Fast forward to Immortal, and I maybe played 4 hours and just…

yeah. i didn’t play that ‘cause it looked like a crappy mobile game to me. i was “duped” into d4 because, while i played the hell out of D2 in college in the early 2000s, a fond gaming memory for me for certain, I ultimately switched to console and never bothered with D3. I played the D4 demo and it was fun to feel…

No

CFO’s need to keep their dumbasses out of technology. They don’t know shit and they ruin a lot of tech companies. 

The suits at Bungie really don’t get it. The solution to their 45% revenue miss is NOT new microtransactions. It’s player retention. Continual growth is unsustainable. Keep your customer base happy, and they’ll happily give you money. That means letting the devs properly respond to player feedback, which is something…

“We did the thing, we made a reference to a different game! We’re hip and know what you like. Please like us. Pleeeaaaseee.”

$15 for an emote??? HHAHAHAHA - um no. I am constantly surprised by the price tag games put on these things. I shouldn’t be at this point but things like this - everything in Overwatch 2 or Diablo 4. Its out of hand.

You aren’t paying extra to save money at fast food restaurants, you aren’t subscribed to a service you pay a fee for where the rewards of the service are discounts on products you can’t use.

If you are paying for discounts you can’t use you are being scammed.

For real. Honestly can’t think of a worse entry in the series. Don’t know when we decided it wasn’t terrible, but I missed the memo

“But I don’t have a platform to write a long winded article whining”

I still remember years ago when Kotaku was attacking Gamestop for bad business practices. Then covid happened and they doubled down with their anti-worker and often illegal violations of lockdown rules. Then when everyone had just accepted that Gamestop deserved to die, the meme stock rush happened — then put a ton of…

“Just normal frog stuff, Arden. Jesus, get off my back!”

It’s an excellent thumbnail. No YouTube mouth, no colorful outlines, no sassy font, no exclamation points, no high contrast field with copy/pasted space ships and aliens and colored orbs.

The amount that companies charge for what is mostly a rectangle of rubber and plastic is ridiculous to start with. I get more exotic materials or copyrights adding a bit to costs, but when I see cases from $5-$50 I may not trust the $5 one yet the $50 ones don’t look or feel like they’re 10x better either. For $72 I…

Stealing his idea is one thing, but stealing actual assets is another.

I expect this kind of blatant copyright infringement from sketchy overseas startups selling cheap knockoffs on Alibaba, but Casetify has always marketed itself as a premium brand selling expensive merchandise. I mean the cheapest phone case they sell costs $72. I hope DBrand and Jerry take them to the cleaners.

That being said Miligna000 is probably not wrong in that they’re unlikely to answer your questions because I doubt there is any answer that would make them look good.

He didn’t say they were lying about the incident *being* an error. He is asking for more clarification on the *nature* of the error. Probably something like: Was this a new feature being tested that got leaked? How did it come about that timely, live advertisements are tied to in-game button presses? What about…