If you people are so selfish as to prioritize a game over actual humans, then why fight it? Why get so defensive? You already don’t care. Just embrace it!

The harassment was uncalled for, and was absolutely the wrong tactic.

Nah, for better perspective, even Sony don’t have a IP close to as valuable as Nintendo’s. Phil is probably not allowed to throw Don under the bus publically. But they do have to talk about how to rectify the situation, even if the cause of the situation wasn’t there any more. Mistakes on the publishing level in games…

First off, thank you for noticing. Second, you don’t want Fable Horizon?

In all seriousness I think the things to note are, they know how to make a really brillliantly realised open worlds. And they’re British, so they have good odds on bringing the right humour style. ALso they know how to make things look really…

being Trans doesn’t miraculously make you incapable of being a predator

My bad on the read of intent.

I’ve said in the past, all said and done MS actually had a much better previous gen than most give them credit for with a few exclusives that I think rival everything except TLoU & God of War. Especially considering Phil had to fix what Don had thoroughly broken. But since this gen started…

I went back and read but frankly you’re just making guess work. You don’t know for a fact if how the decisions were being made between MS and Rare. And if one party was more responsible than the other for the state it arrived in, or how it improved. User feedback can be all over the show, so for all you know it was MS…

The studio developing Fable at least up until this point has a perfect track record. They havn’t missed yet. So I don’t think getting your hopes a little up is completely out of the question.

I definitely agree that competition is a great way to make advancements. Even in our own gaming space, until Epic Game Store came along Valve was asleep at the wheel. Steam had been stagnant for an age. Suddenly two competitors enter the field and the sleeping giant comes alive again.

But in the gaming market the…

I get that. I guess I am just frustrated because they have really let some key things go before. It’s like I want them to get it right but I am a little bleak its starting here. Haha.

Mate, did you have a stroke in your first paragraph or did kinja/predictive/autocomplete mess you up? (please read as playful, not insult)

But I think what we’re saying is that there are actually even seemingly smaller mergers and acquisitions that have a lot bigger impact on the quality of life of the average consumer…

Ah, you just have a whole disingenuous trolly disposition. No worries.

Firstly I just want to say I am here having a friendly conversation about ideas we differ on. I just know that tonecan sometimes be lost in online space.

Still find it wild that all these regulators only managed to find their teeth for a merger about the world changing market of video games, rather than so many other mergers which they let through and are letting through that are one hundred percent much worse for many more people. I don’t know, at least they are doing…

Yeah this. It seems like they decided to focus on gaming because it feels like a much softer target. But there have been so many other much worse acquisitions than stuff in the video game market. 

After Age of Empires 2 I will believe anything can be.

You’re ignoring the games for which Sony has bought permenant or long term exclusivity. Final Fantasy Remake, Final Fantasy 16, Genshin Impact to name a few. Those definitely have had an impact on Microsoft especially in Asian markets. I’m not saying its the be all end all to the arguments either way. But at least…

I just wanted to submit that if you really wanted to play this game, but felt conflicted. Maybe HP franchise maybe has had a big impact on you, or whatever your reason. The most ethical way you do it, if you cared for such a thing, was to wait and buy the physical copy of the game second hand. That would ensure no…

Especially when the main thing she’s often ridiculed for were statements about having bad actors in female only spaces

This sort of chasing markets is also largely the reason Ubisoft is in such a tough spot right now. They wanted a slice of that mobile pie so badly they reoriented studios around it, and now they are scrambling to get back to what they do best. They even tried making their single player games more GaaS like, despite…