While that's true, it's not common for this amount of shaming to occur, unless said art is genuinely reprehensible.

I don't thing the outrage of the masses should alter an authors direction.

You cannot simply dissociate the creative element just because there is money to be made. By extension you'd have to tell me that the Beatles were profit whores with no creative drive. An extreme comparison, but one that must be made.

Your AAA titles are hemorrhaging money and not gaining audience fast enough to match their costs.

I think that the entire blow-up over Dragon's Crown left an extremely stale taste in people's mouths. That was Kotaku, and you cannot simply dissociate from how poorly that story was handled, even if it was a different journalist.

The slow death? Given the fact that gaming is bigger than it's ever been, you're grossly exaggerating. More importantly, your entire line of reasoning is basically everything wrong with development in big studios. Big guys like Acti/EA/Ubi make inferior products when they try to boil it down to the lowest common…

Fucking strawman if I've ever seen one. You cannot seriously compare an illegal act with the development of a game and still take yourself seriously.

So because corporate involvement, we must force diversity? That's pretty fucking thin logic right there.

Basically a huge reason why I stopped reading Kotaku for a while... someone probably should have been fired for that snafu.

Neither of which negate the overarching point that the artist gets to write their own story.

Stop the demand that every game must be as diverse as possible, and increase the demand for the landscape of gaming to be more diverse.

Solid Ghost Busters 2 reference. Not as good as the first, but it definitely has its moments.

Viewership of the World Cup does not equate to viewership of MLS or professional soccer, that's been evident in past World Cup increases in viewership that haven't panned out for the MLS or WPS.

Agreed.

And even then the networks turn a profit!

It's not a lousy reason. Individuals interests are arbitrary because they stimulate the individual. Just because many other nations enjoy it doesn't mean that it necessarily spurs the same level of enjoyment in the US or Canada. Go back and reread what I wrote before you go jumping to errant/retarded conclusions. I…

You seemed to have skipped over my points entirely and resorted to what amounts to fairly common ad hominem in this situation. More importantly, you fail to understand the impact of the laws in your own country, in that there is pretty much no consensus as to whether or not the gun ban actually effected the resulting…

I got started in LoL about a year ago, so I definitely wouldn't consider it an early start. Between the two, I consider the smurfs far less serious, and subsequently, less toxic, when it comes to playing with "noobs" or underskilled players in LoL compared to DOTA 2. That's just my experience anyways.

Shifted to DOTA 2 from LoL recently because I'm not all that great at these kinds of games, yet I enjoy playing them, and people told me the community was better.

What you just wrote... so scorchingly true it's like God stepped down off his cloud himself and slapped Lohan with his almighty peen. GG, good sir.