That’s because the majority of the Star Wars fanbase isn’t aware of the backlash. Not everyone lives and breathes gaming news sites, and it’s gotten little traction outside of it. I can guarantee that almost every parent who buys it for their kids this holiday won’t be aware of the controversies. That will be more…
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And yet “free will” can be subverted through psychological tricks. That’s exactly what is behind gambling design, which loot boxes and F2P games have co-opted. Hell, it’s behind every political campaign.
To be fair, false reporting does exist (somewhere between 2 and 10 percent), but that should not alter your stance to believe the victim, for the reasons you noted.
Your optimism in the face of overwhelming evidence is commendable. Hell, even the banners on Kotaku today amount to gallows humor:
I will add “Litter Caesar’s” to my list of insults toward their shitty pizza. My go-to is usually “Little Seizures” :P
Like others have said, you should perhaps reflect on why this game bothers you so much. This article is about the developers making fun of Mother Jones and an article that normalizes Spencer. That has NOTHING to do with Trump or his policies. For a group that loves to call “libtards” snowflakes and easily triggered,…
10k/man-month is on the low side nowadays. I don’t know why you’re arguing this, there are plenty of people on this thread, myself included who have actually run video game projects for a large studio. Ten years ago the studio I was at budgeted $10k/team member $8k/temp QA to calculate the bid we would present to…
It has been caught up in that battle since at least 1983, the second Lucas started making decisions to favor merchandising over creative vision.
“ye-olde” Unreal has those tools because it’s been in continuous development for over a decade- originally, when it was the engine driving the game it was named for, it didn’t have those tools either.
No, that’s how you know a scene is lazy and emotionally manipulative. The dog is only there to be sacrificed for a plot point, because anything else would require character development first. It’s such a disgusting, overused trope that there’s a website devoted to it: http://www.doesthedogdie.com/
You should, because life is precious, and God, and the Bible!
It’s always been there in the broadest possible sense - you could wander into systems that other players had discovered. Atlas Rises patch brought the first steps towards multiplayer: https://www.nomanssky.com/atlas-rises-update/
Since the Atlas Rises update, you generally start closer to other players, and can scan for discovered systems in the galaxy map. I haven’t run into other players yet, but I have been through systems they’ve abandoned.
Except that you can only log in with an Australian Nintendo ID during the soft launch, so it’s really pointless to play it if you don’t live there.
No, it really isn’t. I worked in mobile games for years, and I had accounts in just about every territory that’s used for soft launches. Sometimes there’s a clear benefit to getting a two week headstart, but in this case there isn’t. If you don’t live in Australia, nothing you do in the soft launch will carry over…
I’ve downloaded it, and the only region you can choose is Australia, and as postnjam points out, you can’t bind your Nintendo ID unless it’s actually an Australian account.
And that’s different than any previous Animal Crossing game how, exactly? Oh yeah, you can actually speed up the timers. Win-win.
Animal Crossing has ALWAYS had a F2P design... without the ability to do anything about the timers. I would imagine that refusing to purchase Leaf Bucks will result in an experience not unlike any previous incarnation of the franchise.
If we limit the metrics to just box office numbers, there would never have been a sequel in the first place. It will pick up steam once it’s on home video, much like the original. Theaters are a dying revenue stream, it probably would have done much better at a Netflix series.