I’m about 99% sure you meant Milla Jovavich instead of Gary Oldman for the ‘raspy and insecure tone’ of the characters voice... but DAMMIT, now I want a protagonist based off of Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zoeg.

That’s what I hear, hence my ‘current events (!) in the post. I do about 90% of my comic reading in Marvel Unlimited, but am debating breaking convention to go pick up these issues.

Nova (Richard Rider) is my favorite Marvel character of all time, so much so that every time I try to read Alexander’s Nova series it just makes me lament Rider’s death. I’m not sad that they’ve kept him gone for so long - barring recent events (!) - because he had one of the best arcs and heroic deaths of any comic…

‘Lifespan of 30 to 200 years.’

No shit Sherlock, and the video game industry has not followed the inflation curve. Instead of raising prices again (remember the backlash with the $60 raise of the 360/PS3 era?), they’ve tried to add on DLC, Season Passes, and multiplayer codes - and none of them are working. So guess what? They lay off half heir…

Read my last post. And if you feel like responding again, just go ahead and assume my response would be the same. Again. You’ve said your piece; I’ve said mine. No minds are going to be changed and I really don’t feel like circling the wagons with you. But if you want to continue being a dick, the publish button is…

If you can’t afford to buy the game full price, maybe you should find a new hobby. Is that extra $5 for a new copy going to keep you from making your rent, ‘asshat’? Video games are a fucking luxury, not a right. Let me guess, you pirate games too because you wouldn’t be able to afford it otherwise?

If that $5 savings is make or break for you, then you have bigger problems. Can’t help you with that.

Here you go, kid. Do a little research. I’ve done half the work for you.

Perceived value =\= physical degradation

DIGITAL products don’t degrade, physical products do.

Keep digging that hole. Physical. Products. Degrade. Over. Time.

Cars degrade over time, games do not. But, sure, keep using that argument that has been proven wrong time and time again. You would have no issue buying a game that 10 people have owned, but wouldn’t even consider buying a car owned by 10 people with 300k miles.

Again, bud, you are foxholed in your ways, and that’s fine. It’s your money and you are free to do with those dollars and cents as you see fit, but you - and how you consume this media - is part of the problem, and you seem to be okay with that. Again, it’s your money. Your life. There’s nothing that I can say that’s…

Yup. It’s a vicious cycle.

How are they going to keep updating a game when they lay off half of their development staff as the game ships? As for my user name, simply calling out that my name is Flawed_Logic does not mean that my logic is inherently flawed. It’s called irony. You have to point out the fallacy itself. Do better next time.

Someone gets it. Thanks.

Which is exactly what the record companies tried to do, if you don’t remember. As for stealing music, remember Napster? The only reason it flipped is with iTunes and the onset of digital delivery, and to a similar extent the same thing is happening with digital delivery with games. Steam has been nothing short of a…

They report the copies shipped to make themselves look good, and then cut jobs based on how many copies actually sold (i.e. How much money it actually made). But, hey, that $5 savings, though. Worth it.

Yup. It is. If you buy a used game from GameStop, $0 goes to the developers and 100% of the proceeds go the the brick and mortar. Keep supporting the shitty company, though. Just don’t bitch when the publishers make games 70-80-90 bucks to compensate for it.