The fact that 48 new courses are inbound likely means Nintendo completely agrees with you.

Same. I don’t know how you improve on this right now, so I’ll just take MORE of this brilliant game. I’m still playing online daily, so more courses is just extra MK cocaine.

I’m probably in the minority here but I have no desire for a new Mario Kart. 8 has been perfect so more courses is a dream to me.

I understand people’s reticence to this, especially if you belong to the cultures this particular fantasy-inspired campaign exists in, but if your example boils down to them wearing some costumes in a silly promo piece that explorers used to wear, then that’s... not a lot.

PERFECT assessment. 10/10

Maybe they thought that dressing up in traditional attire of cultures that aren’t their own as white people would’ve been 10x worse.

So....a solution? Sounds like you don’t want them to explore these cultural identifiers and the explorer-genre tropes. Should half the cast be fired and people you find “approved” be playing this game?

This. If Stadia had been canny enough to try “Netflix but games”, IE a monthly fee for access to a library of games, it probably would have survived and been the market winner Google demands from its ventures. It didn’t, you pay full price for each game individually on an unproven service by a company with a track…

I don’t want to scroll any further down to find it. Please someone post the “I'm shocked" gif and let's end this discussion.

You would think. But those of us who called it out years ago before the thing even bothered releasing were repeatedly attacked for “doomsaying” or not “getting it” by its super ardent supporters (who are mysteriously absent these days *thinking emoji*).

Their pricing and google’s tendency to axe things that aren’t making the moola is the main reason I’ve not “bought” any games on my new Stadia. I got the neat little $22 deal for the chromecast and controller, figuring that if Stadia tanks, I’ll at least still have a pretty decent controller for the PC (confirmed -…

Report: This was not at all surprising to anyone

And this is why I now only work for privately-help companies, who don’t have to care about stock price.

You can tell unions work in your interest because bosses get fucking scared

Job security here at ABK rests with our ability to produce epic entertainment for our fans.

Yeah, changes like crunch and layoffs.

It boggles the mind that so many of these corporate types still, STILL, do not understand that workers with better working conditions = higher morale = more and higher-quality productivity. As if we haven’t been inundated with stories of studios in this industry alone that churned and burned their staff members and…

What absolutely staggers me is the mindset that this wasn’t instantly going to be copied, pasted, and blasted all over social media.

They can! Like the decision to swiftly lay off a bunch of contract QA workers they said would be getting hired on full-time. Couldn’t do that as easily or quickly if those workers were unionized!

Job security here at ABK rests with our ability to produce epic entertainment for our fans