Already at the “it was just a joke/prank” stage of cope. Someone is probably expecting a call from investigators or Pinkertons or something, if they haven’t already received it.

This is all down to useless leadership that rarely ever face consequences for their terrible, awful, no-good decisions.

He didn’t “do” anything to E3. E3 dying is purely the result of years of mismanagement by the ESA, coasting as it slowly withered until Covid highlighted how the organization was failing to reimagine it. We had the pre-covid deck that got leaked with proposals for a show with a big focus on streamers and sports stars…

Easy Anticheat is such a joke, it may as well be a strongly worded letter from the UN.

Yes and no. Because that’s still a thing today for online news sites and blogs - if you’re shitty towards publishers you risk losing access to their press lists (not the end of the world, you just get the news when the general public does), invites to events and previews, and access to pre-launch keys to have timely…

With every new development the sentiment of, “This sequel could have been a patch.” becomes more and more apparent lol.

Geoff is our Dorito Pope.

Yeah, OW2 arrived on Steam well after it launched and years after OW1, and it very likely is the smallest of the playerbases if we separate the Blizz Launcher/Steam playerbases out as different platforms.

You answered your own question: Money. Despite being the “worst rated game on steam of all time” or whatever, even the Steam version regularly charts in the top 10/20 despite launching long after OW1/2 launched. And that ranks games by sales, so clearly folks are spending big on it still even on Steam.

I still mod a small forum! It’s much smaller than it used to be but they still exist.

I mean, alternatively (and this is potentially costly for the companies), actually enforcing some rules and some fucking decorum could achieve similar results. Actually building “safe spaces” for online communication where death threats were consistently actioned on and users removed, where sliding into DM’s to harass…

There’s a big difference between being critical of a game, a publisher, or a decision and harassing people. You can dislike the wave of live-service games that have flooded the industry and also feel empathy for the developers making these games and losing their jobs. You can hate the rise of battle passes and…

Well, I guess he’ll have a small fandom a fraction of the size of what he once enjoyed before he outed himself as a horrible human being, even if his music still slaps.

Choosing two guys that look like Gravy Seals to be the faces of your “Answer the Call of Duty” recruitment poster for *checks notes* law enforcement is sure a decision.

Remember the years after WoW released when every major publisher was rushing out largely copycat MMO’s trying to cash in on them WoW bux? And almost all of them either outright failed or took years to settle and find niche success that was never a fraction of the kind of success of WoW? (at least until many, many…

Really feels like they’re finally fully ditching just about everything about OW1 (sans characters and map) and the initially pitched sequel and just going all-in on the zoomer demographic. Which wasn’t how they first found success but hey, modern Blizzard is sure known for their excellent decisionmaking, right y’all?

At least they extended the Year 1 pass throughout the delay period, otherwise it’d barely be active for two weeks.

Everyone wants to get rich on the Steam marketplace, but Valve are the only ones guaranteed to get rich rofl.

Why *format* is actually my favorite *format* for esports and OW2! This is the perfect *format* for the game and always has been!

I just hope the game is a learning experience for consumers and for a lot of the media (not calling out anyone in particular here) who were painfully slow to catch onto how much of a transparent scam/grift this was.