i don’t think nintendo actually desires a fan base of adults—like, whatsoever. they conceive of their games as products for children. the fact that some adults cling to the brand into mid-life is something that i imagine their executives look upon as a happy accident. because of this they spend no effort marketing to…

When you purchase a game you are purchasing it for the right to play the game in the privacy of your home or personal device.

It’s a public event, which requires a licensing fee.

Million-dollar payouts for less than a year’s worth of work while hundreds to thousands are laid-off during record-breaking profits.

Fuck Putin and his GOP allies here at home. They can all rot.

I think the cynical naysayer gamers who hate Games as Service, gatcha, etc. forget that for any of the psychological “tricks” that keep players hooked to work, the game itself has to be fun. Players have to get something out of it before they actually consider spending money on them.

I dunno? All I heard was this

Are you going to give the same level of criticism to Sony and Microsoft, who are literally monopolizing the game industry? What about when Sony closes their Japanese development studio and refuses to actively promote independent games on their store front?

Basically, I blame the people who pushed this out the door to hit a release schedule a lot more than I blame the people who worked through a pandemic to actually make it.

It’s Korean, that’s basically guaranteed P2W.

People complaining about graphics in a nintendo game just always brings me back to the original discussions around Wind Waker. 

Oh good, the Pokemon Pixel Analyzers have branched out.

Corporations do not care if you are “loyal” to them, and in fact you are foolish to consider being so. Ruthlessly make the decisions that are best for you, stop appealing to corporations as if they are people.

Baseball cards don’t require a year’s worth of power to trade

How is this in any way fun and/or challenging.

I don’t know why everyone’s so surprised that a company that built itself making simple RPGs on handhelds isn’t releasing boundary pushing console games suddenly.

But I’m sure that if the Pokemon games were given bigger budgets, then that would solve all the problems people have. As we know, budget directly correlates…

Folks who do this continue to show their asses with all kinds of weird speculation on how games are built. Years later and folks still seem to think gamefreak has a big folder labeled “pokemon models” and you just drag and drop the pokemon into the game or something.

Someone has spent a lot of money on NFTs.

I’m not sure you know what the word “scam” means.