It amazes me the regularity that bootlickers and paid shills come out immediately in these articles to try and blame inflation instead of corporate greed and marketers justifying their salaries.

Exclude Free to Play games from these types of awards.

Agreed. There’s no point to even having them there if they aren’t stressful. To have non-stressful “survival” elements misses the point of what they are supposed to be completely.

As a general rule, if the survival elements aren’t causing any stress, you don’t actually HAVE survival elements, you just have some mildly annoying busywork at times. The whole point of survival elements is that they need to cause you stress, with the possibility of your game just being fucking over because you…

You’re alone on the ship, you’re out of fuel. You desperately search around the few asteroids in the system scavenging what little you can find. But you’ve stayed too long. You hear the footsteps, he’s here. And all that fills you is dread as they speak.

Having two Jack Russells is the equivalent of have six of another breed...

There is nothing “smart” about Sony’s delivery system.

You can blame players if you like, but I blame Sony’s shit back-end systems.

Good people, just leave Twitter. You really should have done it about 15 years ago, but we’ll let that go. DO IT NOW. And believe me, if you delete the rest of social media too, you’ll live happier. 

See? Told you the PC players wanted Persona 5 :P

Yeah I kinda doubt this is an attack, a lot of people just want to play and transfer their OW content at the same time. Ybarra can say this even if two people are using LOIC anyways to technically not be lying. They weren’t ready. Blizzard should be ready for low level attacks after the scandals regardless. Even if it…

I never believe game companies when they claim external attacks the release day.  It looks to me more like they did not scaled correctly the required hardware to allow everything to run correctly.  Anyway theres more than enough reasons to attack Blizzard,  they just killed yesterday Overwatch 1, and they did it for…

I’d rather $70 ‘actually buy a game’ than mobile-style financing... but I fear I’m just going to get both, alas.

I mostly play single player games which means I am a patient gamer. I will wait for sales. Been doing it for decades now. Why pay full price now, when you can pay half price a year later? No rush.

No, they want Christian laws, not Sharia law. I know what you mean, but there’s really no reason to call it Sharia law. Call it what it is: Christian law.

...that reads as inflated ego? He thinks he can help, he’s trying to help. Helping. If it crashes and burns at least he’d have done more than any of us have ever done.

Maybe I’m just getting old and soft, but my mind went to all the devs and team members who actually probably worked very hard on this game and were likely to some degree mismanaged. Hopefully they work on enough not to have this kind of thing affect them too much, but I’m sure it can’t be great for morale.

what im getting from this is that in order to see more behind the scenes footage of game development and a better understanding on how triple a games are produced, we need to generate takes so nightmarishly bad that developers will have no choice but to dunk on them

We don’t send them, they are drawn.

To be fair, tobacco and alcohol are naturally occurring. So they were really discovered, not invented.

I’m not as down on the post-X series as you are (12's got some good bits, the MMOs have their merits, and 13... is there), but I agree with you wholeheartedly. The more S-E tried to chase trends and be more action-oriented, the less it feels like Final Fantasy. They should just plant their feet, make a kickass ATB…