Also, who are these people and what’s wrong with them?

Breaking News: developer releases press release that doesn’t tell the whole story, game journalists do journalism to provide missing context, because that’s....you know....their job.

The story is that they gave the project to another studio that apparently couldn’t hack it, and so the game was rebooted and given to an in-house studio instead.  All of this tracks right along with the troubled, rebooted development history of pretty much every game in the franchise. 

A collective of storytellers eager to push the frontlines of interactive entertainment by making unique, entertaining and thoughtful experiences that engage the world

Expecting those reviewing it to be able to recognise plagerism though? That’s the impossible standard.

One, Sony is a major company, there’s various branches at work, various departments, oversights are more common than you think. Negligence happens on a daily basis. It sucks ass but it does.

Making jokes about Florida being backwards and crazy is like making jokes about Trump being a bad president.  There’s no point, because no matter what joke you make, the reality is going to one-up it in the newspaper tomorrow.  

Basically this. When the only emotions you’re allowed to express are anger and stoic indifference, then every other emotion (fear, sadness, anxiety, even love) comes out looking like anger or stoic indifference.

Straight men, in my experience, tend to be some of the most emotionally weak and fragile people I’ve encountered.  I doubt they’ll ever be rational enough to make good leaders.  

They removed the video from their site, that’s really all they can do at this point. Outside of an apology what would you like them to do?

Also, stop blaming Sony, Sony has done stupid shit before but this was probably a contract and they just paid him without doing research or caring.

Absolutely cannot believe that people are actually trying to blame Sony on this like they did on purpose instead of being screwed by a contractor.

Reviewing the work you outsourced before releasing it into the world is not an impossible standard.  

Capitalism has “worked,” certainly. No one could argue that. It’s just that its workings, as a required and necessary feature, involve the grinding down of the poor working class, the slow elimination of any middle class, and the inevitable funneling of nearly all wealth to a small number of powerful oligarchs.

On the backs of the poor, those worse off, yes it does.  

And some people will be worse off for it, as some always are.  

But not as much as you love being a prick and shitting on things other people like, right?

Same! I do this with most episodic games: wait till they’re all out to play the whole saga straight through.

But that’s not the topic of discussion. The topic is a disc-less Xbox that will be pushing digital distribution through its own proprietary marketplace, and the impact that will have on the game retail industry. We’re not talking about a return to console games being sold on solid state physical media.

He thinks that platform holders cutting out competition in the retail space is bad for the economy, because killing competition is generally bad for the economy.