It mostly makes it a case of two different situations. In this case the person making the decisions looks into each of these people’s faces on a regular basis.  

Yes, but massive companies that have created games that sell many more copies for a higher price should also be aiming for this. 

Which makes it even more inexcusable when giant publishers which ship multiple bestsellers a year do it.

Yeah... it’s not like they’re a major studio that has publishers and the massive company that purchased them force an unrealistic deadline for release with the constant threat of the studio getting consumed and discarded since they only wanted the successful IPs anyway.

To be fair, it’s easier to not care about delays when you are an indie studio that created a bestseller.

while this lawsuit is unlikely to go anywhere I would absolutely love for all investing to be labeled as gambling since...it is.

You mean the guy who is in the top 1% OF THE TOP 1% may have “earned” that money through less than scrupulous means!?!

That isn’t how it works and you guys know it. Obviously nobody pushed a suitcase full of cash under a table to him, that isn’t what we are saying....

What we ARE saying is that your platform is choosing to “brush off” a lot of legit criticism to garner and remain positive in the eyes of the publisher as to not burn…

While the PC port helped bring things to a larger audience, it isn’t just that to be honest.

I almost didn’t write this blog until I was at least level 60. I’d seen the blowback that my colleagues got for writing about the game “too early,” and I wanted to avoid that fate.

Every positively-spun article Kotaku writers have written about this game have felt like an addict defensively scrambling to justify their actions. The lack of self-awareness is... not something I expected. All of them are missing the forest for the trees.

The intended audience doesn’t change that these games are predatory. You make it sound like criticism regarding the exploitation of whales is somehow platform dependent.

I’ve experienced my fair share of mobile and F2P gaming, and I can promise you, this one is so much worse. It’s not just aggressively monetized, it does it insidiously.

I was defending this game right up until hours ago and can promise you... it’s so much worse haha.

I mean, I downloaded it, played it for a short time, and then uninstalled it. I didn’t like it, but just don’t care about it enough to leave a review. I hope it fails :)

Not surprising. Only a small slice of players for a given game actually write reviews, and an even tinier slice do so on Metacritic. Even Steam tends to only get about 5% of purchasers to leave a review at best.

Making anything an anime adaptation strips it of its aesthetic identity. Anime is cookie-cutter and rote by design

This 100%. In both of the above comps, without the labels I wouldn’t really be able to tell which is which. One is perhaps more stylized and the other more “realistic”, but neither is objectively better imo. They’re just different art styles at this point.

Isn’t Dragon Age and intensely generic high fantasy setting? I’m not sure what you were looking for to distinguish it other than bisexual characters and maybe a Qunari.

God, I genuinely keep mixing up which screenshot is the remake and which is the remaster. It feels so much like the main difference here is the change in graphical style.

The first part of the tweet (“innalillahi wa innailaihi rajiun”) is straight from the Quran and translates into: “We belong to God and to God we shall return”. I’ve always found this somehow peaceful. May he rest in peace.