I don’t think it’s a scam, so much as a feeling of necessity to start the game “fresh” and/or not intimidate new players.

For a man of this status and influence making such sweeping and inaccurate allegations is wild. they’re conspiratorial. 

I think maybe this kind of thing brings into question who the trading card game is for at this point.

It seems to me adult collectors are the target audience now, for better or for worse.

Probably worse.

I would largely be happy with government oversight over a corporation in the name of safety, if that government weren’t the Florida government, which consistently obfuscated and altered COVID health data as they saw fit for political purposes, likely resulting in the deaths of innumerable Florida citizens.

Chris “unannounced bridge maintenance” Christie is weighing in on officials using the government to punish people they disagree with? Really?

I generally agree with you, but what about this system is related to deck building besides the superficial use of “cards” to symbolize what is essentially just a list of collectible perks? The game is an RPG. It feels like you’re dismissing an RPG element just because it communicates the element through cards. 

Sir, you don’t understand. He took MONEY. From RICH people.

As we are starting to see from recent news, the cruelty from nintendo is the point.

You should be fucking ashamed for lacking even basic empathy.

Schrodinger’s Dickhead: Someone who is either joking or not joking depending on how upset the audience becomes.

Honestly could care less about an edgelord’s redemption story. I hope that whatever momentum or promise their career had withers on the vine, as a cautionary example to other young creators that the juice isn’t worth the squeeze when it comes to racist ‘humor.’ It’s 2023, nobody doing a racism is doing it because of a…

“As a consumer, I hope there’s human labor behind my purchase.”

I’m not cheering for Disney’s success, I’m just celebrating Ron’s failures.

Then why isn't the baby in the hospital now? If the child is in legal custody of someone other than her parents because they wouldn't admit her to the hospital, then why hasn't that happened yet?

I wish there was a general legal blowback for patent trolls, if the average american can fall victim to the bullshit of the “three strikes rule”, there should be something like this for repeated offenders of patent trolling, the consequences should ramp up.

I mean, I respect the effort, but the people I trust least on earth to follow through on their threats are whales. Not to cast too broad or too harsh a net here, but I think we all kind of understand that F2P whaling tends to be pathological behavior. You don’t drop plural stacks grinding up a waifu because You Can…

Well, partially because Sony isn’t buying up major publishers and then making their games platform-exclusive, at least not yet.

Quick correction to this part of the article: “He had reportedly been arrested for these charges and pleaded guilty to two counts in October of that same year.” He pleaded NOT guilty to the two counts. The current version makes things very confusing.

I mean, it’s exactly that. Exclusivity for everything has always been their plan; there was literally no reason to buy up all the IP otherwise; this is just execs getting pissed off that they’re not getting their way instantaneously and saying the quiet part out loud because for the first time in probably decades…

This seems like a tacit admission on MS’ part that after the 10 year guarantees they’re signing to try and get the deal across the finish line expire, they are in fact going to do all the things that people are afraid they’re going to do (Xbox exclusivity for COD, etc.)?