While you’re making a joke, its actually interesting what they agree not to make financially. At this point in time emulating the entire NES/SNES/N64 library is trivially easy on PCs. So keeping those older games as console exclusives is sort of weird. Guaranteed if Nintendo released official versions of NES titles…

Yeah that is curious. I actually just think its weird that Square were always willing to talk crap about their non Japanese studios, but not so much others. Because we don’t always get the big picture of the Japanese business side, and knowing how scummy SE are in their business practices, it does make me start to…

Oh this is good. I am super interested in what Sony paid Square for FF7:R and FFXVI. Because truly both those two games did not need exclusivity to make bank. I can’t imagine a world where there was ever a business risk for them, so the payout must have been amazing. I’m also curious if we’re about to find out that…

This problem has actually been around for years now. Although I’m not sure what in the new design is making it seem more prevalent to you now. It feels like its working the same as it did last week for me. 

You should go look up the history of unions in America and how and why they got started. Like seriously do it, its an absolutely wild ride and you will struggle to believe half of what you read/watch is true. Everything good you have as a working class American is due to the history of unionisation.

Your friends need to list fake employers with your phone number to call as a reference. I have done this for several friends, and while it may be illegal in some places, surprisingly in much of the world its either not illegal or the punishment for being found out is just being fired. Which isn’t so bad if you at…

Loads of people. Millions, tens of millions, probably likely hundreds of millions out of the +/- 3 billion gamers.

Side note: wish more games broke out the character creator like the new Saints Row did (pity that was for such an abysmal game). But would be even better if it was an Android/iOS/web-based app. Personally I don’t get heaps of joy out of making a character, but my ex would have gone to town for me and given me several…

First off, apologies that this whole reply is very contrarian. Probably I am just feeling negative/upset with a return to office mandate the whole company is rightfully jostling against. I’ve enjoyed the back and forth despite our differing opinions. Thank you.

Honestly just giving these games a 1080p update would require absolutely no testing, and that would make a lot of difference in allowing upscaling on TVs to bring the image quality to a better standard. But in the case of the SX or PS5 you could probably do a 1440p update with very little testing needed. Just put it…

No, the reason I think its okay to play the game is because I am unconvinced by any of the arguments put forward so far that link this game to helping the war effort, or pro Russian propaganda. Maybe new information will come out that convinces me otherwise, but right now that is where I stand on it. We’re all talking…

Not only do you misrepresent what Phil said, specifically in your headline, but you even misrepresent your own reporting.

You’ll need to stop eating the spoonfed propaganda before we can even have a decent conversation about this. Those aren’t sexbots, sex doesn’t happen in the game. The game isn’t even pro russian, the whole game shows how their tech industry goes wild when left without any checks and balances and turns on everyone.

Also…

As much as I stand with the Ukranian people (and by that I mean I have sent donations over the last year, and also believe Russia are in the wrong), I also don’t trust governments of any country to be arbiters of morality or good conduct.

Please link, cause I cannot find that.

You say that. But I know plenty of people who are super happy with their S and see no reason to upgrade. It seems to be doing well. Occasionally this is gonna happen with some niche game, but generally speaking all the games with troubles on S had troubles on X and PS5 too. Just because these decisions don’t suit you,…

When the average PC users have specs under the consoles, the S will never be the “solely” limiting factor to this generation.

developers who appear to fairly often run into technical challenges

You didn’t ask a question of legality, but of valorisation. You were answered, and now we play the shifty goal posts game I guess.

Not really, because ultimately it would be impossible for everyone to stand for everything. This is people trying to figure out their lines. No ethical consumption, but most conscientious people do make an attempt to weed out things, and then you can clearly see some things hit closer to home and have importance and…