Honestly this is pretty benign as far as this sort of behavior is concerned. It’s mostly collectors trying to drive the market price up, but they’re doing it with incredibly common games that just happen to have particularly pristine boxes.

Creating a scam appraisal service so people can launder money through investing in collectables? Can’t say that I thought of doing that.

As an outsider looking in at the fighting game community, this is the dumbest thing I’ve heard yet.

The song however, is pretty cool. 

Losers always blaming anything but themselves.

Most likely, and I feel the real reason Splinter Cell has been absent for so long is because Ubisoft hasn’t found a way to consistently monetize it or turn it into a GAAS.

Those core strengths don’t even exist in the series anymore either. Making the comment you were responding to quite unlikely. They abandoned the core of this series. I’m done with it, honestly. I’ll still play the older games because I love them, but this series isn’t what it was to me, it’s changed *too* much.

I don’t want games as a service.   I want to pay $60 and get $60 worth of game that I get to keep and play at my leisure forever.

Brotherhood’s multiplayer was great. Fun asymmetrical modes that actually played to the series’ core strengths.

Not interested. I want to go back to a tightly focused narrative and ditch all this 60 hour campaign that’s just full of filler bullshit.

No two words have buttfucked the triple-a gaming industry more than “Live Service”

Even EA has backpedaled from it after, shock of all shocks, a single player game with no microtransactions (Star Wars Fallen Order) made them fuck tons of money.

At least they realized their error in time to hopefully salvage Dragon Age 4

I still think GTAV also feels like a warning, though. Originally, a single-player focused game that became a money printer. So, no single-player expansion DLC. Likely delayed new games and innovation, even in other titles the company released.

Assassin’s Creed games desperately need to be smaller, not larger.  

This sounds like the nail in the coffin this franchise needs.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

Seems to me that one group voiced their free speech rights, and another smaller group voiced theirs and the former ran from the latter.

Ahhhhh, but while you don’t get the munchies from buying it... directly, do people not remember that they get the munchies later? And does that thought not lead to any planned buying for those munchies?

As I said in another thread, I have a switch, but will probably pick this up. been playing a lot more handheld lately (it’s great to go to bed early and run a quick XCOM battle or something) and i’ve got a room without a TV where tabletop mode would work perfectly while I listen to records. Plus, I missed the earlier…

all these armchair quarterbacks seem to think they know the recipe for success. Nearly all of them, including several writers here on Kotaku absolutely shit on the switch when it was announced. Years later, which console is outselling them all? How many casual gamers have fired up smash bros, mario kart, etc.

riiiiiiight they weren’t like intentionally instigating people and carrying weapons

If you don’t have $5-10 million to invest, don’t bother. Every pothead wannabe businessman across the country has gotten all aflutter about getting rich with their garage startup. Then they find out that the real business people have used traditional contacts to buy the real estate, do the financing, hire employees,…