I feel like your response was meant to be snarky but...it’s just true? Except that it doesn’t make sense to call Oppenheimer a franchise (since it is a single film without franchise potential or intent). But it was/is very popular (nearly a billion in box office receipts).

Popularity is closer to net worth than any other actual metric imo. Sure the people who are into Avatar are in average *less* into Avatar than the people into ATLA are into ATLA but I don’t think that bridges the insane gap in popularity. ATLA had a cult following that steadily grew into actual mainstream popularity…

The first film has earned every bit of ire they have gained. But after the second film, I absolutely care about the characters.

Anyone who watched the second film and thought that it was empty, simply *wants* to have an issue with this IP. Way of Water was incredible.

Destiny 2 is six years old.

They charge for yearly expansions (it is NOT a F2p game)

I’ve worked on a Destiny-like game before, while I don’t want to forgive the Bungie guys for all their mistakes, it is exceedingly hard to keep all of your old content playable over a multiyear game. Just the amount of content alone grows to an amount where you have to develop an entire system for load/unloading…

Bungie has proven they can’t handle Destiny so many times already. It really has been a franchise that’s full of issue. From Destiny 1 being a flop and dieing super quickly, to Destiny 2 being a total mess.

Confusing expansions, excessive amount of currencies and microtransactions. One of the worst crimes of all was…

Did anybody actually rent the items from Ravio? I know it was an option, but every time I played A Link Between Worlds I had enough money to buy the items outright as I needed them. Then again, I was an adult when I played it, if I had played it when I was 10 it may have not been the same experience.

I don’t think they mean that the wall-moving ability from A Link Between Worlds was literally a predecessor to Ascend from Tears of the Kingdom, because you’re right, Ascend came from a debug ability, but I can see what they’re saying in retrospect. They both allow you to use the environment (walls and ceilings) as a…

Contracts don't make them immune to legal action. It just makes things more complicated 

Because the contract says Sony can do exactly what they’re doing?

I never stopped collecting those.  I’m glad people are finally starting to realize that physical media isn’t as irrelevant as most people think, though.  

Yup. I mean, partly 4k streaming is worse than regular 1080p bluray disks, due to bitrate restrictions, and 4k blurays are just legions better, but more importantly, companies are just terrible at dealing with their digital libraries. I’ve been swooping in on essentially every cheap 4k sale to make sure I’m not losing…

I bet they will be. Its a classic class action suit and I don’t see how you couldn’t win.

They really should be taken to court for this. Licenses expiring is a common thing in digital distribution. The solution is to pull the licensed content from the store, not user libraries. That’s been the standard practice for games, I don’t see why it should be any different for movies or TV shows.

This is one of the many reasons I’ve started collecting blu-rays and 4k discs in 2023. 

“The astronauts weren’t bored when they went to the moon”

the big issue I have found with starfield is that it’s just...tedious. does it make sense that materials have weight and your cargo bay has a max capacity? sure but why do my outposts also have a max capacity? making it incredibly difficult to actually make use of those materials?

Such an unbelievably bad look from them. Not that Bethesda has many good looks, but man. What on earth do they imagine is the value of responding to reviews saying “I dont think this game is fun” with “Well we think its super fun. Maybe the most fun, so, nyeh. -Bethesda”. Genuinely feels like Todd Howard’s massively…