Again, I think this shows a pretty big misunderstanding of the industry. I’d actually gamble that there aren’t enough full-time jobs in the industry for the total number of people working in it. You can’t randomly hire hundreds of temp employees in a field that requires education, training and experience if there…

This is such a ludicrously simplistic view of an enormously complicated problem that it’s tough to know where to even begin.

The problem is that workers in the game industry are considered disposable and are frequently laid off en masse after a project is completed with a slim hope of getting offered a permanent gig. So that “promotion” they’re hoping to get is to not get fired and the way they get that promotion is by “looking like a…

I personally just think Netflix is the wrong platform for meaningful entertainment, period. People are just programmed to put Netflix on and just tune out. I don’t know when they lost humanity’s ability to focus on anything, but I’m not sure they can get it back. People just expect anything on Netflix to be watchable…

100% this. My wife actually refuses to just WATCH a show and always has to be on Facebook or texting or playing Candy Crush and I’ve essentially just stopped putting up with it. I’ll stop the show and ask her if she’s bored, refuse to proceed until she decides to watch with me and if she’s not interested enough for…

It’s REALLY difficult to get out of the grays in Kinja’s commenting system. Really discourages discussion more than it assists with weeding out the trash IMO, but we work within the system we’ve got!

Nintendo, unlike the other guys, recognizes that teaching your audience that your games are only worth $20 by discounting them heavily after they've been out for 30 days only hurts you in the long run. I don't buy new games on other platforms anymore because I know it'll be $15 in two months. Nintendo still gets my…

I usually see posts like these and put on my smug “you DO suck” face, but nope, not this time. That boss was a real pain in the ass. I can’t say that it hurt the experience for me, since I enjoyed that Witcher doesn’t pull its punches, but that one had some real bastard moves.

Lol, still living in a world where you think Congress can, or even wants to, fix an actual societal issue with real world impact to real people? Give me a fucking break. It’s fix video games or continue to do jack and shit. Even in a best case scenario they could easily accomplish two whole things in a single term,…

Whoa, Jesus Christ dude. Don’t let all the FUD out at once. You give away the game that way!

I don't disagree, but the market has spoken. People don't think mobile games are worth money. The few quality ones that come out every year will dwindle to nothing over the next 2-3 years unless consumers get a lot less stupid (not happening).

Totally disagreed. Granted, do they ALSO need to be profitable ventures? Certainly. They are a publicly traded company after all. What you’re seeing is the result of Nintendo making a good mobile game, pricing it at a price they thought was fair and profitable (read: more than $0.00) and a market that long ago decided…

I actually don’t really believe that anymore lol.

Yep, it's a mobile game. Just drop the word Nintendo and you've essentially described what's become of the industry that was supposed to bury console/handheld gaming.

Isn’t that sort of what mobile gaming is???

Anthem was knocked for load times because it was knocked for LITERALLY everything. If Anthem was even a passable game, that wouldn't even be a blip on the radar. Egregiously bad load times suck, sure, but basically anything within normal limits is irrelevant.

Having to download a free launcher =/= getting fucked as a consumer. It's this sort of hyperbole that makes your argument look even weaker than it is. This barely effects the consumer.

Except in your scenario, all of those stores, including GameStop, exists within the same room and the customer only has to walk an extra 15-20 feet to get the game. And since fortnite is such a huge game, GameStop might actually be equidistant for the hypothetical consumer.

Except in this case the consumers are barely even inconvenienced and not really harmed in any particular way. Customers are ALWAYS the "ammo" when competition exists as the explicit goal is to steal customers. If you truly care which launcher logo pops up in your system tray when you open a game, that's a you problem.

Except for the complete lack of importance in the case of PC gaming because all of this crap is a free download. Console exclusivity pisses people off cause they may not want to waste $400 on an Xbox to play Cuphead. If all I had to do on my PS4 was download an Xbox Live app? Wouldn't even be worth complaining about.