That is not even remotely how that works.

I mean, in all fairness, Microsoft has done a much better job at crushing XBox than Sony, historically.

It isn’t that you can’t buy your way, it’s that you have to do so smartly and, well, within your means. Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard, yes, but AB and its continued operating costs are still just a drop in the bucket of MS' coffers. Embracer just bought and bought and bought, assuming these franchises would…

Please, this is all deflective PR buzzspeak. The real reason game budgets keep ballooning is because investors keep expecting bigger and better returns and the entire economic system has been incentivised to deliver them. Other factors like tech costs and inflation have a much smaller footprint comparatively.

I can’t feel sorry for people defrauded by NFTs, because if it wasnct those, it’d be by something else. If they couldn’t put forth the token effort to see how little value they actually had, they were never going to hold onto that money in the first place.

“...and it also makes sense that you wouldn’t be able to change your race, given how much that factors into your character’s place in the world and their relationships to other people.”

You don't have to cull your subscriptions if you never subscribed to begin with.

I’m sorry if that happened, but in fairness, crossing a progressive protest line wearing a red hat kind of falls into “really should have known better” territory. Yes, the protestors shouldn’t have done that, but that was just dumb in the "don't stick your dick in a hornet's nest" kind of way.

You're welcome, self-upvoter! I'll send kisses your way. <3

In fairness, what color your life is shouldn’t matter. It does, but it shouldn’t, and I don’t think we should be encouraging that certain lives don’t matter. We can recognize an institution is flawed and bigoted without becoming what we hate.

Always love watching a loser laugh by themselves.

Inconsistent? Blue Lives have been ruining other lives for longer than you’ve been alive yourself. The only lives ruined by Pride flags have been those who ruined themselves because they don’t want to accept that they have the right to exist.

Bravo on Nexus for this decision. I am constantly amused watching bigots try and mental gymnastic around how their freedom of speech is being smothered... while doing everything in their power to smother the freedom of speech of others because THEIR freedom of speech makes the bigots uncomfortable.

That may have become the catalyst, but you can’t tell me Square Enix would have kept FFXIV the way it is now. It’s definitely Yoshi-P’s baby and markedly dissimilar to everything Square does.

Admittedly, in some cases indulging the producers turned things around, like in FFXIV’s case. But unless there’s oversight, it can quickly turn into a mess, and such a privilege shouldn’t be handed out all the time.

Yeah but, that would require me to either use Gale or be a Wizard instead of a Sorcerer, and that's a sacrifice too great for me to agree to.

Uh huh. You’re about two weeks late, bud. Take you that long to think up your witty retort or you just browsing old content for the lulz?

Maybe that’s why the villains in my TT games tend to be popular with my groups; you can look at anything they do and see the reasoning behind it. Anyone truly deranged and murderous isn’t going to reach levels of importance in the story without some SEVERE deus ex machina.

Yeah, I’m not going to spend hundreds of dollars to upgrade my system for a prettier version of a 2008-2011 game. If you like it enough to do that, great, happy for you, hope you continue to enjoy it, but for me that’s a no-sell.

The key word is “factored”. News would be a factor, because news of new consoles moves stock, and thus affects the current fiscal year. They’re saying that there will be nothing regarding new hardware as a factor this fiscal year, so there won’t likely be news either.