There’s no perfect way, but doing nothing is not an answer. The self regulation of both video games and advertisements has led to a decline in ethical standards in both industries. Whereas advertisements in the past required advertisements towards children to be upfront and honest (including the exact size of cookies…

The problem is that the self regulating industry has failed and necessitated that the government step in. The industry could not even follow basic “in-app purchase” stickers on their products. If they wanted to self regulate, they should have thought more about what they were doing rather than the bottom line. Yet, it…

A pep talk won’t fix this. There’s no incentive to play out a losing game unless you’re playing competitive or one of the limited formats where a win or loss actually matters. It’s that simple. Rewards are not based on the games you play, but rather the cards that you play. It’s better to just quit a losing game and…

Think about going to a supermarket and then having to pay for each item separately and getting a separate receipt for each item. This is what the Epic Store is doing.

It’s because FaZe’s statement and follow up statement is fairly confusing to read since it has little to do with what Tfue is arguing about. FaZe Clan is focusing on just earnings while Tfue seems to be talking more about his living conditions at the streamer house. FaZe also has a reason to disincentivize Tfue from…

What matters is the quality of the game at launch. This was the state that it was received in and you cannot expect people to wait for a patch for the game to get good. It was approved and sold in that state regardless if it was a Day 1 patch or not. And remember, in the future, there is a good chance that people will…

It’s better than Epic flat out refusing to even give these developers a platform to sell their game.

That’s because no one else was willing to let them publish games on their platforms. Digital distributors like Acclaim (remember Acclaim?) only dealt with well known foreign MMOs as did most digital distributors at the time such as Nexon. Steam offered them a place for these unknowns to sell their game and host the…

Steam hasn’t been a monopoly in years due to Origin, UPlay, and whatever Activision Blizzard has. They have big games that have cut into Steam’s marketplace share years ago. But, the difference here is that the games that were taken off by Steam were done by the publishers to put on their own platform. 

Steam/Valve isn’t close to the giant it used to be. People forget that with everyone else creating their own digital platforms in the last five years that numerous “big” games now have their own stores and launchers outside of Steam. Activision Blizzard has their own. EA has their own and these are big.

Arena is not competitive MTG. Don’t mix the two up.

It sounds like they picked people based on their marketability on Twitch in order to combat their recent viewership loss

Even if Take Two mandated it, Pitchford’s comments make it seem like he had a part in making the decision and shows no regret for it.

The problem is that a lot of the Streamers make far more money from just doing things at home, so they have no incentive to try to do it in LAN like most other games.

You’d be surprised. Arbitration gives an absurd amount of leeway for businesses now. Just look at this case from just this week.

You don’t really need to look into exact numbers to know. One thing you can do is simply queue up and see how long it takes to get into a match compared to before a big change.

Unless the ISPs get better in the US, an all digital format is impossible. The infrastructure for it simply just doesn’t exist in many parts of the US. This is before we even concern ourselves with the lack of space on hard drives and the potential that a game might not even be finished due to developers abandoning it…

Sounds like it’s time for me to skip the PS5. I’d rather wait for the 5 years it can take a game to get on Steam if ever.

A long time ago, there were restrictions on displays of wealth. So one of the way rich people spent their money was through the consumption of food whether it be expensive or just a lot of it. This could be an extension of that.

This is assuming developers are the ones getting the cut and so far, this does not look like the case. Both the developers of Metro Exodus and Borderlands have said that it is out of their hands and the decision was made by the publisher, not the developer. This means that it is likely the terms given to the…