Epic and Blizzard already have their own launcher/ecosystem with game currency that can be used to buy games and items across said ecosystem

What about Biden’s 1994 crime bill that lead to extended mass incarcerations that disproportionately effected minorities?

News about the gaming industry is news about video games. You’re deliberately being a dense, shortsighted moron, and I can’t for the life of me imagine what you’re getting out of it. Unless you have a stupidity fetish or something.

That’s great, but who gives a fuck what Joe Rogan thinks about anything?

You might, if you were interested in having a civilized conversation, rather than lame trolling. If you can’t see why a major video game developer paying out a 9-figure settlement is video game news, that’s a “you problem”, not a problem with the reporting in this article. You’re being deliberately dense.

Riot is a video game developer, dipshit.  

“This experiment is meant to understand how the value proposition of decentralization can be received and embraced by our players. We know it is a major change that will take time, but we will stay true to our...principles.”

Maybe some people don’t like the things you like.

I think it’s a bit like The Force Awakens. There’s plenty there to criticize if you want to, but for most people they’re just happy to see a sort of “return to form” after a series of poorly-received entries in the franchise.  Despite a lot of its flaws it “feels like Halo” in a way that people have missed.  

That sounds exactly like Friends.  

It’s not, really, because I don’t engage with these games. I just find them inherently distasteful. I prefer a straight buy/sell relationship with products, rather than mildly-invasive parasitic one.  It just feels more honest.  Maybe I’m old-fashioned.  

Honestly, you’d need AI real-time monitoring to eliminate this. Constant monitoring of all in-game communication with instant banning when anyone steps out of line.

Because the whole point of these things is to maximize constant engagement. Getting people to start playing every day is harder than getting them to play multiple matches once they’re already logged in. So they structure their incentives to promote logging in every day, and they let the addictive “one more match”…

Stop gating progression on things for no goddamn reason.

Yeah, I’d much rather pay $60 for an entire game than deal with a F2P FOMO engine that tries to nickel and dime me, even if I’m not actually forced to spend my nickels and dimes.

Ah, I forgot about Metroid, although I only got a few hours into it.

I’m trying to think, but other than Forza Horizon 5, I don’t think I played any games that came out this year.  I can’t recall anything else this year that’s caught my attention.  I’ve pretty much just been playing backlog stuff and replaying older games.

You’re not clever enough to get away with dipping this far into poor taste, sorry.  

the Ubisoft co-founder said the backlash to the Quartz announcement was expected, and likened it to initial public outcry over previous new developments in the games industry like DLC, microtransactions, and loot boxes.

We went and built a technological dystopia and didn’t even bother with the flying cars or sex robots.  We suck as a species.