I don’t see any good news here. They got robbed, didn’t get any support from Valve and were forced to put their game for free. Now, somehow they need to convince people to pay for it, when they didn’t had a microtransaction process planned in the first place.

But the game doesn’t do that.

“I have some quibbles with Rowling’s world building—how does magic work, exactly?”

What does FaceID have to do with losing a phone?

One could easily turn it around and say these changes are totally fine, because only “bad players” will have trouble adapting to them.

They already did the Reaper rework by removing the “Souls” you had to pick up to heal. Now his healing is based on the damage he does.

Agreed. Given the target audience, I can sort of understand the “oh holy fuck, we’d better get on this with the quickness” nature of the response, but jiggling breasts are not a new thing in games as a whole.

I particularly like this bit, though: “When asked how something this seemingly elaborate gets unintentionally…

I don’t think cultural awareness requires that you know what The Elder Scrolls is. So many people don’t play games and wouldn’t have any idea. 

There have been exotics that require PVP since year 1.  Get over it.

It’s the account thing.

You’re not forced to do anything, you can just stick with tarmac racing if you want. 

Ya, and I love their stance on this. I’m being completely genuine. This is how I feel all game companies (and franchises, really) should approach whiny fanboys.

It’s a really simple solution for something that isn’t a problem.

Nobody cares.

Yes, clearly what this situation needed was more pedantry.

Oh thank god that Dictionary Guy is here to save the day. 

Considering, for example, the mere existence of gay people in games has some people crying “political!”, I don’t think those people are being reasonable.

Man, I’m all in on CA’s response to this. I mean, ya, they need the game to sell and all that, but I’m here for the “don’t like it, don’t play it” answer. 

Clearly, you haven’t played any of his games.

I’m almost 40, and while I like to poop on games as something people should be able to do “professionally” and make a living at, it is becoming clear to me that high-level competitions are becoming more and more as big a part of the games as the games itself, and these players are driving that.