This is a super weird take - like for example, today you might not be able to afford a house but you might have a phone that’s millions of times faster than the first calculators, and a refrigerator that keeps your food cooler and safer than your ancestors. That doesn’t mean that life today is so much better than it…

Nintendo is only good because it’s got such a tight control over its ecosystem.

Huh. I’d love them to buy Nintendo. Nintendo is really shitty to its fans and won’t release any of their titles outside their platform, so it really can’t get any worse. (I also don’t see that merger ever getting approved).

I would hate for them to buy Nintendo. First of all, "their success lies off their hardware" means they would kill the Switch and move things onto Xbox. Second of all, no I can't argue this anymore it's just too awful to consider 

I’m hugely into gaming and I roll my eyes every time I see everyone complaining about how underpowered the Switch is. I think the Switch graphics are fine and care much more about games being fun then the graphical fidelity of single blades of grass or whatever.  I’m not in a huge hurry to shell out hundreds of…

You are player hatin, as it were.

You mean a console designed as a portable handheld, that is literally 1/10th the size of its competitors, has less raw computing power? SAY IT AIN’T SO!

“I am now a pariah of that subreddit,” Adkins wrote in his initial email. “I get it, hype and excitement are at an all-time high. I’m just as excited as the next person, but I draw the line at theft. I was raised to believe that crime doesn’t pay. I had hoped our society, and so-called Bethesda fans could be held to…

I think we underestimate how much work it takes to keep these things up to date. Having an old ass online store sounds like a security risk. I imagine the metrics show that like 0.1% of Xbox Live users are making video purchases on the 360. Just not worth it.

If I were reading/watching Scott Pilgrim for the first time now, in my mid-30s, I don’t think I’d get it either, but when the movie came out I was 22, the same age-ish as the characters. I was nothing like the characters (I don’t really care about music, I had just moved and so I didn’t have any friends nearby, etc)…

It’s not even astonishing anymore how little gamers know or even want to know about how games are made.

You’re engaging with a different argument though.

YOU are the one who made this analogy to the people making Walmart brand stuff, and yes those people are absolutely cogs. Sometimes it’s outright sweat shops, but even when not it’s still assembly line workers actually making the stuff.

THE DEV’S DON’T SET THE PRICE.

yeah it feels shitty to take it out on the DEVS for delivering something when it’s more specifically going to be the higher ups (directors etc) pushing them to do the thing.

“I guess on some level, I find it unpleasant to identify so proudly as a consumer/customer.”

Counterpoint - slightly - there are more resources available to learn about games ahead of purchase than perhaps any other products on the market. That isn’t to say we can’t criticize or get annoyed when those games turn out to be bad (or even just not what we expect), but they have ample opportunity to conduct one…

The idea of trying to enjoy art without acknowledging the conditions under which that art was created is just so foreign to me.

I’m honestly a little shocked at the straightforward admission that folks don’t care about the human beings who create the things they love.

It’s a very good way to keep yourself misinformed (if you care to know what’s causing the problems you hate in the games industry, listening to game devs is probably a good place…

I hate how much of online gaming discourse revolves around bad takes made by ill-formed idiots looking to make a quick buck off rage-bait videos.