It's the virtual version of buying Magic: The Gathering booster packs. If you think this should be illegal then I assume you also think all CCGs should be illegal as well?

You must understand that there is an entire generation of nerds who grew up fantasizing about the Star Trek holodeck. They see that as the ultimate goal of computer simulations, whether it be for games, education, research, whatever. They see VR goggles simply as a baby step towards one day having a holodeck.

It's called focus groups and focus testing. You make a prototype, you get people to use it, and then you take feedback from those people and use that feedback to refine your design. It's not that Valve is losing confidence in their thumbpads. It's that they are giving the focus testers what they have asked for.

I wonder if it's the same ~12,000 indie devs making and releasing a different tiny little game every month, or if there are actually hundreds of thousands of different indie developers at this point. The first actually seems more plausible to me.

You bring up a good point about loyalty.

One doesn't take away from the other. If software engineers got lower salaries it wouldn't mean that they would take that leftover money and donate it to schools to be distributed to teachers. In fact, having a larger upper middle class populace increases tax revenue, which means more potential money for public…

It shifted from AAA to indie. I don't think you'll ever see an adventure game with a $100 million budget, for instance.

It's interesting you mention Full Throttle. I was born in '85, so I was 10 when that game came out. It was the first adventure game I ever played, and it's still my favorite of all time.

You may be aware of this already, but just throwing it out there anyway:

I think you could argue that Grim Fandango was the last of the AAA adventure game era. After that the genre was largely kept alive by indie devs, and still is to this day.

Depends on how much of a gamer you are. If you are satisfied playing pay-to-win, casual, touch screen games then you will love mobile games. If you are a traditional gamer that wants some sort of real challenge or adventure then cell phones will likely not fulfill your gaming needs.

Textbook victim blaming.

No, this would be like your son telling you he wants to play football, and you buying him a vintage leather helmet, old school uniform and pads, and a vintage style ball, and forcing him to play the way they did 100 years ago to give him an "appreciation of the history of the sport". Then, over time, you give him…

Again, you have no idea what you are talking about. The Wii U is basically an upgraded Wii. It's the same hardware architecture. When Nintendo comes out with a new platform, it's always a baby step above the last platform in terms of hardware power. That's why it was so easy to be backwards compatible.

What you said would be like somebody who doesn't work in medical science saying, "As I see it, there's NO good reason why they haven't cured cancer yet."

You completely missed his point. He's isn't saying that he is irritated by gay characters. He's saying he is irritated by badly written characters, and in this case, those badly written characters happen to be gay. That's a perfectly valid opinion to have.

Here's what it amounts to: the people sending these death threats and creating this fear are feeding on the attention they're getting from their victims and the press. By posting this article, you have given them exactly what they want. You've acknowledged their existence and given them attention.

None of the statements listed are blatant lies. They are simply talking positively about their product. Companies won't ever talk badly about themselves. Their marketing departments are paid to make everything look as great as possible. This is true of every marketing department ever. That's the entire reason why…

I use a Wii U Pro controller with one of these:

We are probably just in different stages of grief. I'm still in the anger phase and you've already entered the acceptance phase.