And yet, this isn’t a big deal for most gamers, because they only care about female indy designers allegedly trading sexual favours for publicity with small press figures, and not hundreds of thousands of dollars being given to major influencers.

Agreed. There’s a fine balance between “too little loot” and “too much loot”. If you can get what you want really fast, there’s not really any reason to keep playing. 

I kinda doubt Carlson strongly believes those statements. He’s on a radio show to provide discussion and argument. He’s a pundit: he argues and takes a contradictory position for a living. The host positions himself one side side of the discussion and Carlson just charges right into the devil’s advocate corner.

Which is basically giving free digital currencies to people wealthy enough for smartphones.

When these fights are done, you can scour the field for loot. Perhaps most damning for Anthem, a loot shooter, is that you can’t actually use or even immediately identify any of the stuff you pick up like the player did in the initial gameplay reveal.

Yes... but how many game titles are at the average WalMart? It’s not like they even look at indy game publishers.

I’m curious what you’d make about Anthem.

This is a crazy bit of revisionist history.

That’s just nostalgia speaking.

Seconded. I loved City of Heroes.

22?! I remember thinking she was much, much older.
But I was in my early teens at the time, like 14. Checking wikipedia, it was 1993.

You’re making the mistake of equating Irish, Scots, and Brits with “white”. While that’s no big deal in North America, there’s a HUGE difference in the UK. And especially at that time. (But even now.)

Presumably, they visited him and conducted questioning without a warrant, and then returned with one.

I’m usually quite wary of falling into what my coworker Riley MacLeod calls “the diversity trap,” which is to say, giving a game a lot of credit simply for doing the bare minimum.

Ummm... Ireland in the ‘70s would have been 99%+ white. And of the remaining 1%, not all of those would have been Black.

Your bias is showing Mr Harriot.

Makes sense. Because no one ever compared Dragon Age Inquisition to Witcher 3 or Skyrim.

They’re pricey, but generally match inflation.

Can you think of a game they could have done instead that wouldn’t be unfairly compared to another game?

But is that fair? Is it reasonable to compare Anthem to Destiny 2: Forsaken and a game + expansion pack a year after that launched?