Despite your assertion that the playerbase doesn’t give a shit, apparently a lot of folks don’t enjoy being subjected to manipulation no matter how inconsequential it is.

I mean, they seemed to have been straight up lying to players about their xp gains with the intent to manipulate players into dropping more cash on their gambling system.

This is one of those things that if they had just been up front about (“Hey guys, as you repeat low tier activities and earn more bright engrams, the XP required will rise, doing high tier events bypasses that, or just taking a break returns the normal scale”) people probably wouldn’t bitch beyond the normal (and…

by ruining the game for everyone else...

well, I mean, ruining it even more

At the end of the day, this is Gazillion’s fault because it made a mediocre game and was terribly managed. And Disney finally decided they didn’t want to be part of that. I certainly feel bad for the devs involved, but they’re always at the mercy of management. Gazillion should have had other sources of revenue, like…

I’m conflicted. On the one hand, loot boxes like BF2's are a predatory affair. On the other, I also paid full price for Overwatch and it tries to sell me stuff as well.

I don’t have a gambling problem, I do have a problem with f2p mechanics in a game which costs money. I’m not an idiot, these things make money so companies will put them in, I get that. I personally won’t buy games that do, and regard the people that buy them and ruin gaming by doing so, as dicks. Not sure what’s hard…

Good. We need to keep pushing back against this bullshit. We can stop the game industry become this cesspit of shady gambling tactics and micro transactions if we actually try. We need to apply more pressure or they’ll keep pushing the limits of what they can get away with.

“Look guys, we changed it so it’s less bad. We’re the good guys now!” No you’re fucking not. It’s still a grindfest so you can sell lootboxes. Everyone who pre-orders this/buys this in the first month is a dick for enabling them.

That’s a fair likelihood. But it is also a 100% fact that men who wear hats indoors (with some public buildings excepted) have never been taught any manners.

Sure it is. They’re testing two versions to see which perform better. Typically this is done with features, not microtransactions, but still.

This just proves that is the worst possible response.

I don’t just want the VR experience I want the complete package. I want my father to call me out the blue tell me to get into the VR machine and ignore me the entire time. Bonus points if he wears glasses and stares at the screen with his hands under his chin while watching.

Damned illegal aliens! Taking jobs from hard working Spider-Americans!

His mom and dad have ball chins, too. Duh.

try and explain why the clothes on your giant Chun-Li statue looks like someone tried to take them off and then hastily put them back on

Uhh... returning something that was likely never intended to be out in public to the person to whom it belongs? Is this a confusing concept for you?

Khemist49 did the right thing in returning the disc. Not sure why some people believe that he had made the wrong decision and that he should have leaked it instead. Other than hackers who might turn around and make unofficial ports of StarCraft on consoles and toasters at the expense of ruining a guy’s life, what…

Counterpoint: Fuck you, moocher.