I don’t think it makes sense to look at this thing’s features, we need to actually look at how it is being used. Is it constantly docked, and somebody lives in there? It’s a house. Does it move around a lot and is only docked temporarily, and nobody lives in there when it’s docked? It’s a boat.

I disagree, I think the problem with microtransactions are that just their mere existence makes you doubt the intention of the devs, and thus inherently hurts how enjoyable you find the game. For example, the thing Yamauchi said about rare cars is kind of true, in a game like GT, you do want to have some desirable…

Yeah, the random rewards were fun the first three times, until I noticed that I only ever won the lowest monetary reward or a useless car part, at which point I started to absolutely despise them. They’re essentially just ads for cars, because they show you a desirable car, tell you “hey, maybe you win it”, then you…

Agree, unlike in many other car racing games, racing the regular cars is actually a ton of fun in GT.

I initially didn’t realize you couldn’t sell cars, so I intentionally did all the races, even the ones where I already had the car. I guess stupidity does have its advantages.

That’s a great comment, thanks for that info!

Yeah, when I read this, this was one of these “you really didn’t think this through, did you... wait, you just told me you didn’t” moment.

No, he’s talking about in-game car prices. And really, they can make the cars whatever price they want. But PAY OUT CORRESPONDING WINNINGS FOR RACING so that I can buy these cars. If I wanted to be poor and unable to afford these cars, I’d just remain in my real life instead of playing GT.

- Jim Ryan

I’m not even angry at the online requirement, or the microtransactions. What I *am* angry at is the fact that Sony gave a good version of this game to reviewers, who gave the game good reviews. I then bought the game. Progression wasn’t superfast, but adequate, and I could buy at least any cars I needed to compete in…

Everything you say would make sense, except that THERE WERE MULTIPLE PEOPLE WHO CAME FORWARD BECAUSE THEY WERE HURT BY THIS WORK ENVIRONMENT. I’m writing this in all-caps because it was apparently very easy to miss.

I feel the exact same! Every time I see something advertised as a Zelda-like, I immediately try it out, but inevitably, these games take all the things I don’t enjoy from Zelda, and none of the things I do. They often focus heavily on combat, but then don’t manage to make combat even as enjoyable as Zelda games do…

That’s a general videogames problem. As a player, I don’t even care about size anymore, because I know exactly that this huge guy who could stomp me to the center of the earth with his pinkie toe will have a pattern of attack where he basically waits for me to stab him with my toothpick until he dies the death of a…

“Well we don’t want to articulate our strategy because we don’t want anyone to steal our strategy”

I guess this must be obvious to everybody else, but I feel like I’ve had kind of an epiphany about right-wingers. They’re projecting. When they say things like “YOU lack confidence” or “YOU won’t get laid” or “sexual orientation is a choice” or “people will fuck you over at the first opportunity” or “altruism doesn’t…

I bought this game a while ago, and didn’t like it, but I’ve never asked for a refund on Steam before, because I believe in supporting Indie devs. In almost twenty years of using Steam, this is the first time I’m asking for a refund.

I turn my PC on in the morning, and off in the evening. Steam starts automatically. So it’s essentially always running when I’m awake.

I don’t think it’s a problem per se. I guess in the context of work life, one way this can be a concern is if it creates a situation where women are excluded from participating in activities that affect work outcomes. Lunch breaks are often very important for networking and more informal work planning and…

This wouldn’t be the first time Nintendo stops the release of a fully developed game. It’s not like this has a GTA V type budget, if the PR hit is seen as more expensive than the sunk cost of developing the game, then it’s dead.