That picture is not Ultima VII, boss.

Phil Spencer HAS turned it around. It’s just not easy.

Didn’t you finish saying in another post that the tax rate for a guy making $50k a year was 15%? The example I gave had him paying 9% and you’re crying foul? Good lord. Heck in my example te guy making 80k is still paying less than 15%. Get your shit together.

It needs people to maintain the servers and infrastructure, it needs customer support, it needs to maintain a GM staff (even if it is in-game volunteers, people need to coordinate), and it needs people who can fix bugs and security issues as needed.

Way back when I started keeping my finances in a notebook after MS Money failed spectacularly for me. To this day that is how I keep track of my income and outgo. Whatever works.

The frustrating thing is that in the late 2000s they had a very great publishing arm with tons of awesome exclusives. Then Don Mattrick became the boss, decided Kinect was the future, and dismantled everything but Gears/Halo/Forza.

No, it almost never happens unless the company is at death’s door, like THQ where you had a bunch of publishers buying 90% completed games for a fraction of their costs.

Because MS may theoretically want to release a Scalebound in the future.

Do the math. Let’s say the flat tax rate was 23% and the standard deduction is $30k, which seems to me to be reasonable, if not a bit low, for a working person with a family. Anyway, so the $50k earner pays $4600, which is an effective rate of 9.2%. On the other hand the guy who makes $1M a year pays $223,000, or an…

But it is surprising to see Civ V gain ground in the year that Civ VI came out.

I do like the idea of a central Olympics. I think it’s part of the spirit of games, which old sappy me would rather preserve. Without it, it’s just a bunch of World Championships which all these sports do.

I definitely want to share the road with thousands of people who just spent the past 12 hours tailgating and drinking beer.

Yea, this is a good point. Really the only thing that makes sense is for a wealthy country with a strong sporting infrastructure to host it every 4 years using facilities that are always in use. I’m thinking Germany, France, England, Japan, the US, etc. NYC lost the Olympics because they wouldn’t build a nonsense…

How can the IOC get a fresh stream of bribes in this scenario?

DJ 3000

Sad!

The xbox one solution is just night and day superior. It’s fast and simple. You don’t need to unscrew anything or make any backups. You don’t need to worry about losing any data or anything like that (*cough* PT). The USB port is fast enough to handle this. You can use the 500GB you paid for when you got the system.…

“nice”

I see no reason why any level of government should put one dime into some rich guy’s stadium. Maybe build a few roads to lead to it, but that’s about it.

..infuriating control issues, awful stealth missions, interminable boss fights and half-baked sidequests