Who is buying PS5s very much matters to Sony - they don’t make money from PS5s, they make money from the games/accessories/subscriptions that real buyers get along with their PS5. A reseller scalping PS5s isn’t going to buy those things for each console they get, they’re going to sell the consoles at a ridiculous…

It’s certainly annoying not to be able to get your new toy as soon as you want it but I can’t muster up the rage to be angry. If it was insulin, housing, food, anything people actually need I would be angry.

Finally, it’s just so...bleak as a principle. It’s a market conjured entirely out of thin air, the most miserable, late-stage capitalism industry imaginable. Reselling exists to serve no purpose other than to enrich those able to crowbar their way between a product and its intended market.

Totally 100% coarsely pixellated graphics mated with super clean super thin vectorized font... What kind of drugs are they smoking over there at Squeenix? The visual clash is absolutely horrendous, plus all that empty unused space in those text bubbles looks all kinds of awful on top of everything else.

But you also started making cereal knowing full-well that you’d have to sell it in that store. The cost of properly promoting it should be part of your production budget.

The best I can do is make them on sale for 90% off.

Oh, buddy, if only you knew how much money shelf space in a supermarket costs. There’s a reason that there is only a super limited supply of sodas on the shelves, and they are all made by 2-3 companies at best.

People have been paying for premium shelf space for decades.

I do find it funny that one of his complaints is that if they don’t like your game they don’t feature it.  Why would anyone purposely advertise a game for free if they didn’t think it was good?

I get that having to pay for promotion sucks and that Sony’s price is exhorbitant for an indie developer.  But I don’t know what the solution is to 10,000 game developers who all shout the system is broken because it doesn’t promote their game more prominently than the other 9,999.

Lol, the number of [NO WHINING] comments on this article.

That’s actually not far from how groceries and other retailers operate. Makers — whether of soda, cereal or toys — pay to be highlighted there.

If he’s not happy I suggest he releases his game on Steam or the Nintendo e-shop, where his game will immediately disappear in an incredible mass of shovelware, never to be seen again. Since when is visibility and advertisement free?

Yep you got us this time lol. Looks like it is

I find myself asking the same thing. If conservatives at large were just a little more honest about certain things, we might not be spiraling down this Trump....thing quite as fast.

Scott, bro, you don’t have to retire. You can just *own* this if you want. Just straight up be like “yes, I love my LGBTQ audience, and I am also sending money directly to politicians who will use said money and their positions of power to reduce this audience to second class citizens in a best case scenario.”

Metroid games have plots?

Never has the number 5 filled me with such excitement.

I mean, the real problem is that on one hand it wanted to give a real, nuanced, complicated exploration of the concept. It’s not unrealistic to say that a violent revolution can put in power those that will abuse their newfound power to vile ends, we’ve seen it happen in the past (see the French Revolution), and while…

As someone who hasn’t played either, could someone explain the problem with Detroit and Bioshock: Infinite?

From what I gather in the comments, Detroit was a painfully obvious metaphor for racism while still for some reason having white protagonists? And Bioshock: Infinite implies that there are “very fine people on…

I agree that you don’t want to minimize the danger of groups like the KKK, but I also think that sometimes it’s okay to mock them and make them look like the morons they are, and laugh at their expense. Mockery can be a powerful weapon if deployed correctly. These people have paper thin skin, nothing gets them quite…