“The only thing every factor listed above has in common is that they’re all issues produced by and indebted to a system designed to bleed you dry in the name of ever-expanding growth”

This. I'm happy to see it fail out the door.

This. After finally playing botw on PC this month, I'm not sure I'm ever going back to my switch except for gaming on airplanes or at work.

Yeah that's steam. Generally dominated by the worst of the community at all times 

Not a shock. Their studio is quite literally unqualified to make a multi-player shooter.

Lol you little kids could never have handled the 90s and that's a low bar

I mean, I stoles Persona Royal off the backs backshelves of a retail when I was there doing IT work, well over a week before street date.

Lol never in a thousand years. They will never allow it. 

BOTW is exponentially better on PC via emulation, if you can get it running.

If seeing a thumbnail would hurt their experience, my instinct is to dismiss their concerns out of hands as the mewling of emotionally stunted teens.

Yeqh but his point stands. No normal person would ever care about that and most people buying the game are normal. 

I don’t think you understand how many pasty nerd boys have trained themselves to REEEEEEEEEE at anything you could ever call a “spoiler”. Oh no GANON in A ZeLDa GAmE?

Good!

Marketing is designed to influence the dumbest people in society, inshudder to imagine how insensate a person has to be to fall for AI generated ads.

Like Madden or Fifa, there are millions of people worldwide who buy exactly 1 or 2 games a year - the new Madden or the new Call of Duty. And they spend hundreds or thousands of hours gaming each year. Without being judgemental, these players usually don’t give the smallest shit about quality, fidelity, or comparing…

Well it's capitalism, so yes.

Lol they have nO intentions of doing that.

My conservative family thinks “green” is the devil but Muskrat is so insane they want a Tesla now, to advertise what they “believe”.

Great, so only twice what it’s really worth for a piece of shit.

Assuming it really does backfire.