What’s your point? For starters, Wizards of the Coast certainly aren’t going to sell you that card at $120; you’ll get it at that price in the resale market, the existence of which adds enormous value to that card that a Hearthstone card can never have. The basic concept of comparing the resale price of a resellable…

I find that the comparison to MTG isn’t that valid or productive. Yeah, MTG costs more. It’s also a physical game that has to be printed and shipped. The cards also maintain some part of their value indefinitely. Hearthstone cards don’t exist. They’ll all go away forever when Blizzard shuts the game down in <15 years.…

In general, I think this question is stupid. Usually, when people ask “Are esports really sports”, what they mean is “should ESPN broadcast them?” And the obvious answer to that is “well ESPN broadcasts poker, so why draw the line at DotA???”

If what you’re asking is whether they warrant the respect of traditional…

In any asymmetric multiplayer game (mobas, fighting games, card games, overwatch, whatever), early accusations that some character is OP basically never stick. I’m glad you point out that in fighting games in particular, the zoners always seem really really good in the period where everyone else is still getting a…

This is very much a tangent, the KKK very much think of themselves as a Christian organization, and their goals as Christian ones. That’s not of course meant to impugn Christianity; lots of people misuse religion to further their nasty boneheaded goals, but it’s fair to say that the KKK is to Protestant Christianity…

To clarify: you explained to them how something in their game had an unintended meaning in English, then you pitched that unintended meaning to them as a new avenue of humor. Then they, the creators of the game, said “nah, we don’t think that joke is very good and it’s not really the vibe we were going for” and cut…

Honestly this is why I think it’s foaming-at-the-mouth insane that any game in 2017 only has manually-curated save files with zero automatic backups. Join us in the goddamn 21st century, JRPGs, it stopped being cute decades ago.

I don’t care if save-splitting is an important part of your game design. Banner Saga…

Hah, this is great. The first job I had out of college was writing the sports-data-processing backend for a Siri-like voice assistant (made by another company), and I ran into this exact same bug.

I really powerfully disagree with you here. What he’s saying here is also awful. This dogwhistle “white people are oppressed too” stuff is really bad news, not just because it tends to be the sneaky backdoor that white nationalists slide through to get their point across, but that it’s also wrong and misleading in and…

I don’t have a dog in this race, but haven’t Bioware’s facial animations ALWAYS been pretty bad? Or, you know, not bad in absolute terms, but worse than the animations in similarly budgeted games?

To be clear, I think his joke was garbage and I think he deserved to have people get mad at him for it, because that’s what should happen when you make a bad joke, and it’s a risk you should be prepared for when you make jokes like he did.

It’s really sad that he’s leaving Kinda Funny though, and I think that was…

“We will probably never see a full virtual reality version of Yu-Gi-Oh or the Pokemon Trading Card game—translating every creature and spell in those now-massive games into interactive 3D models and effects would be an overwhelming exercise.”

This assertion really confuses me, since the overwhelming exercise of…

Recent console generations have been stripping this back more and more, but still, no co-op experience in gaming is as fun as good split-screen or same-screen multiplayer on consoles. That’s the chief reason I own a console really. Diablo III on console with local multiplayer is insanely fun.

Also the situation is…

Melee isn’t slow or clunky, it’s just very technical and been explored (read: exploited) for many years so the tech that’s been discovered is very very advanced. Generally that makes it less fun to watch for non-experts.

As for why it was never dropped, two basic reasons:

1) Brawl actively sucks as a competitive game,…

Sakurai’s relationship with the competitive scene is complex. He used to just plain hate it and actively troll it with things like random tripping in Brawl. That’s part of what keeps the competitive scene playing the 16 year old game over the newer ones. We’ll see. Smash4 may permanently take over in time. It was just…

On the penis one, I want to take a slightly different tack from some of the other comments, which is this one: if your ex seemed to be having fun with you during your 4 years of sexual activity, and was getting off all that time, she was definitely having fun with you and she probably had no complaints or things she…

Yes. Totally. It’s not fair to her per se, but it’s probably the most reliable way to kick the cycle, and therefore the only fair thing to do for her long term.

I don’t mean to make excuses for EA or for FIFA, but this does smell to me like a glitch. This has the smell of something where there’s some dopey rookie-mistake rounding error in the maths hidden somewhere deep.

This is why we write unit tests people...

Spyro still holds up really well. Just saying.

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In the time it took us to move 20 feet, someone else may have also moved 20 feet.