Why does it feel like Epic is pointing this out for the court of public opinion rather than the actual courtroom? I feel like this has nothing to do with the merits of the lawsuit itself.

I wasn’t comparing the actual quality, but their status as clear hodgepodges of other successful ideas in their specific genres all glued together as well as the discrepancy between what was claimed about the impact they’d have and the actual impact of said product.

Ah, my mistake. For some reason I got Legacy and the mobile game mixed up in my head.

I’m guessing you didn’t play any other Bethesda game at launch, huh?

Not ENTIRELY political, as the critical praise went dry incredibly quickly when the game failed to deliver on any of its lauded potential. And that’s what a lot of the critical praise amounted to: excitement for the “potential” that Legacy had and never lived up to. I feel like praise only matters if it’s, you know,…

True enough, but it’s the sheer disparity that makes Starfield noteworthy. This is Duke Nukem Forever levels of grandiose claims about what’s essentially a copy and paste job of yours and others’ systems and ideas patched together with duct tape. There have been plenty of overhyped games that turn out to be bad, sure,…

...which would happen with most any cloud-based software, including Microsoft’s, so I’m struggling to see your point here.

Uh, no, needing to do an extra step like that is crazy stupid. Useful in a niche use case is not a good argument for this function.

The better items are meant to help you catch up. But as it was, you could literally be in last place by a matter of milliseconds and then use a Star, Lightning Bolt, Bullet Bill, etc to surge to a massive lead from the back of the (very tight) pack. That’s what bagging is, deliberately being in last place by the…

You already got it. It’s called “I put down the game 7 years ago”. If you jump back infor an update, you’ve got no one to blame but yourself for having no self-control.

an time-filled comback.

I refuse to recognize a name only given to Twitter by Muskrat because he’s salty about no one wanting to call his online payment company by that name. Mainly because it’s a stupid name.

Oh, I’m so sorry that it wasn’t made clear that I know that’s how it works. Thus, I will assume that you don’t realize that this economic model is utterly broken and thus should be ditched for something better and more sustainable than lazy rich people seeking ever increasing returns.

Any business that makes a commitment to shareholders at the cost of its own workers should lose their license to do business. I’d also accept mandatory severence packages taken out of executives’ bonuses and salaries. Because if that’s the only way they can think of to drop costs and raise profits, they clearly don’t…

“We are transitioning from the Overwatch League and evolving competitive Overwatch in a new direction,” a spokesperson for Activision Blizzard wrote in a statement.

“Now I can finally play hentai games without having to worry,” one person wrote on X.

Unfortunately, history has shown time and time again that once the golden goose changes hands, it quickly ends up being strangled because it isn’t producing golden eggs fast enough for the new owner’s liking.

A transparent attempt to get players to shell out by making their previous playtime effectively worthless through powercreep would just change the origin point of the backlash, and it would remain as severe.

Look, I feel for the dev team, I really do, and I’m sure there are a lot of complicated factors as to why things have turned out how they have, but I also can’t trust Bungie’s devs anymore. Every. Few. Months. We get another big apology blog post or video and a promise to do better. This is going back years now. At…

In his defense, he’s an admitted Xbox fanboy so expectations of his intelligence and maturity shouldn’t be at the average level.