Eh, it’s not exactly a conspiracy theory that executives time dumb, risky  moves like this to coincide with sold stock. Saying it wasn’t malicious greatly underestimates the planning abilities of these parasites.

In a vacuum, that sounds logical. But the economics of a single company, product, or medium are never in a vacuum. New competition happens all the time. People abandon a company for moral, practical, or even stupid reasons. Merely having more people to sell to does not automatically make up for this.

If you needed the crutches of Songbirds, Zimmermans, and Stun Needle Launchers? You probably needed to get better at the game anyways if you wanted to survive the alternate routes on subsequent playthroughs.

AC actually had it back in the 4A days, played a lot of it with my roommates. Sadly, they dropped it for V’s largely online PvP structure and it’s been missing since.

You mean Rayden?

I always assumed Tidus was pronounced "TIDE-us" because it made so much sense. The game itself puts heavy emphasis on water, like with Tidus' weapon on the cover art, his playing of an underwater sport, the big monster thing they're trying to get rid of rises up from the ocean, the emphasis on the tides of fate vs.…

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.

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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.