Analytics are well established for most of the big guys, and on newer platforms like mobile. Blizzard likely have a proprietary tool. But in mobile especially, folk have been using stuff like Flurry to track events. Events being anything you want to measure being triggered, character selected, skill used... anything.

Unfortunately, that’s just then nature of online team games for the most part. I don’t know if there’s a fix for that. If you were able to play Mario Party online, you’d likely run into people talking shit and making it a terrible experience.

Because of the game and gameplay, or because of the community?

It has the same amount of games as the Switch, too.

I’m going to read the full AMA later. Preparing to navigate past all of the 3 ‘jokes’.

Not implying that the nerf is affecting the casual environment, but the opposite. Whether or not it works for competitive play, will depend on how pro-players use the characters.

If Blizzard did use PTR-based feedback to tune the game, it would turn away from being casual, and more towards something more hardcore (these terms suck, but they explain enough...).

Ground breaking stuff from Nintendo.

Gamers being angry at the Red Cross should have been a 2016, not a 2o17 thing.

Destiny is fantastic visual direction, tied to solid gunplay. Just they needed to build a game around it...

I can appreciate some of the level design flexibility that is allowed by adding to Mega Man’s own arsenal, both with the Mega Buster and slide, but I always felt that was the wrong way to go.

If they register it as a small business, doesn’t it then also fall under a number of new safety measures, too?

Always down for some Nippon Ichi.

It sucks. It always sucks.

Some of it does get reused, or it becomes the base for something in the future. It’s not always just dropped.

I’d guess it was down to little interest, and the last time they showed it, it didn’t really generate much hype. Not much there saying to push forward.

Likely can’t for contractual reasons.

I don’t think that’s relevant. As this is about game time.

I’d say that you’re more likely to play sports games due to being a gamer, than you are due to being solely a sports fan.

I’d disagree that people who may only play an online only game, or sports games are not “core gamers”. They’re the epitome of a core gamer, as they’re the ones who do buy the core content.