you may not be aware of this, but the site is owned by James Spanfeller, a noted ferny fellow. those links? all the ads? placed.by him. with his allegedly unwashed hands.

Thank you so much for being awesome and transparent. I know we commentariat don’t say it enough, but thank yoy

Jim’s desire to stuff the sure full of ads is at war with trying to keep readers. He comes from an era before the comment section, and sees no value in cultivating a community.

Sure, developers toiled in obscurity, crunched in poverty, but some random dickhead got exactly the maximum amount of revenue for the minimum amount of investment, so it’s time to hit the reset button on this gacha game, find new suckers to be staff, and launch a new exploitative gacha game aimed at sucking people dry…

Worse than that: Corporate bosses believe that fascism is best for their bottom line, even when they are personally led to a post. As long as the executives get a bonus today, they won’t give a shit who gets... executed tomorrow.

I hope this means DQ12 on GBA

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Getting featured on the PSN store promo menu costs at least 50K per day. For smaller developers, this industrial-scale sort of manipulation could make sense. It’s a tale as old as time.

2010 was my favorite version on PSP. That Franchise mode was lit. Completely gutted in later years.

Might have been manipulating game popularity, clickfarm style.

So long, and thanks for all the fish! You’re an absolute unit, and you’ve had a heck of a run. Thank you for all the articles and for helping make this place the best it can be.

Gifting only works in the same pricing region, and has worked that way since 2015.

Welcome back, Patricia!

wow, a small band of salty KC:D are trying to Mount a defense of those game And developers with the Blade of “well, I liked it”, like some Warband of tastelessness. 

Deadspin was rebooted by new owners Great Hills four times at this point, currently staffed by a skeleton crew of Jim Rich’s four friends from Tribune Corp and a handful of underpaid freelancers. They’re prefectly nice people doing their best, but it sure ain't the Deadspin anyone read or loved.

VVVVVVV, I think

Who was this chucklehead’s lawyer? Fucking AJ Daulerio?

Forcibly turned into “magazine-style” layouts. io9 hasn't been the sane without CJA.

Presumably indie developers sending self-burned discs from their cramped apartment

Yeah, the now-cancelled store shutdown brought everyone back