These numbers are stark and utterly fascinating. However, am I missing one critical piece in this analysis? Where is location taken into account? Are they comparing fairly proximate locations to city centers and places of employment?  

There needs to be a study of how the death of a CEO using the company’s product affects their ability to be successful.

Some people can’t read long articles like this at work at save them for later.

Look, I think the way you do, because I can afford to do so. You are still not thinking like a poor person, and are attributing the outcomes that one would assign to a person in your position to someone who is decidedly not.

I’m a lifelong Civ player going back to Civ 1, and I’ve played approximately 5-10 games of online Civ...ever. I don’t understand how you get people together for that kind of time commitment.

Have you had any experience with late game yet in terms of how much it slows down? I still have only made it through about 2 of 30+ games because of how much it slows down in the modern eras, both between turns and during my turn. Don’t have a bad computer either, crazy they can’t optimize this game well.

Fact is, all of these deals are horrifically lame and not better than their normal couponing strategies, so I think even the Fast Food companies agree with you.

It doesn’t boil down the way you say it does at all. You are dramatically overestimating the budget flexibility of low-income families, and doing so in a way that deliberately insults their ability to love their children. If you can’t see that, I can’t help you. Heck, compared to most of the people in these comments,…

This is awful harsh on low-income families who have to buy what they have to buy. Could make the same argument right back to you, why would you buy the $250 carseat when you could buy a $10,000 car seat that is 0.01% safer? Obviously you don’t value your children’s lives.

Problem is, you don’t “own” your digital games any more than you own them via the subscription service. We’re in a weird place right now with ownership.

LeBron stats just always make me smile for some reason.

Man you think Chess tiers are bad, check out Go sometime...

I’m in there too. Essentially we’re kids that grew up without the internet but experienced its growth during our formative years, so we have weird traits from both sides.

The problem is that so many Americans are lining themselves up to die at 60, while thinking they’re gonna live to 80 or 100. There’s nothing wrong with either candy or booze in moderation, but we’ve got a real portion size problem in this country.

My exact response.

RIP Noid

Just wanted to update after reading - thanks for writing this! Disappointed that there still aren’t clear answers, but pretty sure nothing is coming out of this studio anymore. What a loss! Sad that this run of games has come to an end, was such a unique if small part of the video game landscape.

Aw man, excited to read this after work. My wife and I have long played these games, and we’ve both been frustrated by the lack of clarity around what happened here. For being so under-the-radar to gamers at large, it is a shockingly long-running series!

I’d go with Eli-lite.

As with most story-based games, the twists tend to make an experience really special to a person based on how they land, and you’re not really even close to the twists yet. It’s a perfectly good game, elevated to a great game by the way it plays with meta and the fourth wall, with a sound battle mechanic that I found…