I’m not a Bethesda fan, but one of the good friends in my circle is, and I can tell you without bias that people were livid. And not in the “suddenly explodes” sense, but in the, “pot left on high heat and only glanced at over years” sense.

You mean that thing that so few people cared about that even Nintendo basically stopped bothering with it?

Pretty sure the first possible interaction with the Red Prince can have him offer to make you his slave, so not that different. Lizards were Swen’s favorite race in D:OS as well, so apparently he has a type.

IIRC, Swen went on record stating that they had designed the narrative specifically so they could include the Gith from the outset. You don’t put that kind of effort in if you don't heavily favor the race, so the Gith being purposely OP wouldn't surprise me.

Except it’s not shitty behavior. Expecting the rest of the world to not talk about things because you decided not to indulge for literal years is shitty behavior. One person does not get to decide how a hundred people act.

You can think the truth is terrible, but Minthara being killed in good playthroughs has been known for well over a year. Again, Early Access since 2021. No one is obligated to not spoil something for you that’s been in circulation that long.

Instant spoilers for a massively mainstream game’s first act that’s been available for years at this point due to early access? Yeah no, statue of limitations on that spoiler has long passed, friend-o.

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.”

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