You’re not thinking big picture, man. Teaming Vick up with AP would’ve been perfect. They could’ve easily combined their “bring your dog” day with “bring your kid” day. Except replace “bring” with “beat” (and “accidentally” with “repeatedly”).

Me and Adrian Peterson would have been dynamic.

Best business scoop I read this week came from Jason Schreier. Hopefully Gamestop becomes even slightly better to work and shop in as a result of his great reporting.

I agree. But we need to come up with an acceptable alternative to “women.” “Girls” is belittling, but “women” is just too damn formal! For guys, we have, well, “guy(s),” and “dude(s),” because saying “man/men” in every context would just be weird. “Gals” will never work. Ever. “Ladies” can come off as sleezy.…

yes, theres a very good reason, period.

Her opponent later admitted that it was the longest he ever lasted with a girl.

NO, NO, JUST NO.

Sometimes. But often the equipment needed costs more than the final product (e.g. Cars, computers, etc, etc...). This really doesn’t justify the cost. I mean, why does the “chest of holding” cost $900? You could hit up Amazon or any number of brick and mortar stores and find wooden desktop organizers for far less…

Holy hell that’s absurdly expensive. You could literally buy the power tools, wood, hardware, and stains and make it for cheaper.

I can promise that I am and will be continuing to follow this closely!

Totally agree, and I’d go even further. The corporate metrics are the ones driving that misbehavior, which wouldn’t be happening without this scheme to begin with. The whole scheme sounds like something some idiot straight out of B-school dreamed up - “we’ll measure performance based on their metrics, just like we…

See this is EXACTLY what Kotaku is good for and should do more often. Actually call out GAMING related companies and businesses that conduct shady business practices at the expense of their employees and gamers alike.

I love how Bartel in that memo takes zero responsibility for the corporate practices contributing to the “disappointing” behaviors you described.

The explanation is simple. You have to jump through about five hoops to even get the game to track your stats. It’s absurd. The game should just ask you as soon as you start it up — hey, is it cool if we track your stacks for the global missions? Frankly I’m not sure even that’s necessary, it’s not like there’s some…

The real reason it fails, they added an extra layer to get to online that wasn’t in gen6 with the Player Search System. There is also no Holo Caster/notification center. Only telling a player there is an event when they are trading isn’t very good design.

Game Freak needs to stop feeling the need to reinvent features…

Interesting, I didn’t know I could disagree so thoroughly with a single person! I’ve played every main Final Fantasy from 1 through 15 (excepting 13, could not make myself like it) and this is without a doubt my second favorite. I view it as a towering achievement and a game that confidently rises above its flaws (and…

Or they could get rid of that stupid requirement and come up with something more user friendly

As one of the unfortunate Gamestop employess, my first reaction is ‘love my job, hate the company. Been working for the company since 2005 and the circle of life is the biggest crock of shit ive ever dealt with. My district Manager, sorry Leader (were not supposed to use the words Manager or customer any more) has…

It’s gotta be down to console sales, surely. The Wii U version still sold relatively well for the number of people who owned the console.