Gamepass only matters if there’s exclusives in it.

Why do you assume it’s an either/or proposition? That’s silly. There is more than enough room in the game industry for both.

As long as MS is offering GamePass, they’ll be just fine. It sucks when your big hits get delayed and miss giving you big Q4 numbers, but the whole point of having a subscription service in the first place was to give them a constant, steady revenue stream and make them less dependent on tent-pole hits.

It’s very clearly not an “asset flip,” and anyone calling it that doesn’t actually know what an asset flip is.

Did you miss the bit about Insomniac wanting to speak out about abortion rights and getting shot down by Sony?

The title is literally using the words a Bungie representative used, and Sony has already muzzled another of their studios that wanted to speak out about current events.  Seems entirely warranted to me. 

There absolutely is a muzzle big enough. It’s called a contract.

There’s a wide gulf between stuff like Tunic and Mina the Hallower, which are inspired by Zelda but offer their own significant twists, and this game, which is 95% the same as Link’s Awakening.

Tunic’s art style doesn’t actually remind me that much of Link’s Awakening.  

This Zelda fan sees it as a plus.  

No, that’s plagiarism. But you can start a site where you do exactly what this one does: write articles and opinions about video games. In fact, a ton of people already have.

a job where they could get killed any second.

No one’s painting the update as bad.  It’s the service itself that sucks.  

This isn’t an issue of internet quality.  This is an issue of the publisher not allocating the necessary server resources to support their customers. 

At a certain point the publisher is responsible for allocating the necessary resources to support the product they’re charging for.  

There’s a difference between offering a functional product and a broken one.

It’s a rip-off because there’s no scenario where you pay up front for a video game you can’t actually play when you want to that isn’t a rip-off.

Absolutely. I play games for fun and entertainment, not for a false sense of accomplishment. I have actual accomplishments for that feeling.

Or even give them their own genre-spinoff. Like, maybe a Mushroom Kingdom themed city-builder where you place as Peach, monarch of the kingdom, building communities to fulfill the needs of your toad subjects.

Which just shows that sales aren’t an argument against one, since there are paying customers that would appreciate the feature.