It’s not hard at all from a technical standpoint. In fact it’s smart. You don’t know what platforms you’re going to be porting your game to in the future, so best to make all the server code platform-independent, at which point it’s super easy to enable cross platform play.

Logistically it’s much harder. Leave aside…

It’s a matter of who runs the servers for that particular game. For this one it sounds like Epic runs the servers itself, and uses platform-independent protocols to send the data back and forth (this is the smartest way to make any game that you plan to launch on both PC and console). The lack of crossplay is an…

I mean this is why online-only multiplayer remains a bad idea despite its borderline universal adoption at this point. At the very least you need a LAN mode.

To be clear, the American and English editions of the book each state the currency to be the currency of the place of publication, and other than that the setting is kept deliberately ambiguous. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, however, makes it pretty explicit that the Factory is located in the United States.…

Sure, but that’s a lot of people. And they were deliberately setting out to offend all of them everywhere. They can’t possibly be surprised is all I’m saying.

Surely they can’t be too surprised by this. The whole premise of the game was “Hey, remember when Hindu people got annoyed by Smite? What if we offended EVERYONE?” You gotta expect there will be countries that draw the line entirely.

This is barely more helpful than “because we said so”.

I find it hair-raising when Japanese developers use this kind of justification. It’s really not a matter of Western individualism vs Eastern collectivism. It’s a matter of accessibility and product quality. If you restrict a mode to certain times of the day, and…

Shut down the goddamn frats already.

This whole thing is just Olympic-level out-of-touchness.

“Should we include esports? Would that energize the youths?”

“Oh no, videogames are all violent. We can’t mix that in with wholesome sports like fencing and boxing”

Join us in the 21st century bro, where we recognize that the violent metaphor of videogames is no…

I actually saw more movies this summer than any summers I can remember. But honestly the answer for why this one was cooler is pretty simple. Previous ones were overstuffed, and you can’t expect that to be sustained. The biggest blockbuster of the year (Wonder Woman) was also criminally undermarketed, especially in…

And no doubt the melee community will find some way to declare this style of play illegal so that the same 4 or 5 dudes can keep winning all the tournaments.

I don’t know. I certainly wouldn’t want to see Trump wearing anything ELSE...

I started playing around this time last year and have sunk about 300 in to catch up. But that’s because I want to be able to build all the best decks. You can have a very good experience with about 60-100 bucks dropped on it. That is, get the new players bundle for not that much then get 40-ish packs of a newer…

They also never even finished changing the name on all versions of the launcher app. The Mac version never stopped being called battle.net...

I think this is a bad idea and silly trend chasing. eSports are sports the way chess is. That is, legitimate, and enough of a sport that it makes sense to televise it like a sport, but not enough of a sport that it belongs at an event with like, swimming and throwing stuff real good.

EDIT: Sorry, this ended up way longer because I wanted to get all my thoughts out. Not all of this is directly responding to your point.

END EDIT.

Yeah, I mean, it’s callous to tell someone that they should have threatened to leave their job which they need, but honestly if it was me (as a major executive, not a…

Honestly that’s the line I would take. This kind of business practice is so cancerous, and developers should KNOW that. The ignorant suits don’t know better and will try to run you over on it, but you literally should threaten to quit do that. The bad will garnered by stuffing microtransactions into a fully priced…

Not a great excuse though. If a team with a lot of renown (which Monolith has now thanks to SoM) really doesn’t want something to happen, it doesn’t happen. I doubt there was much developer pushback if microtransactions this extensive are being put in.

I sort of wonder how they go about hiring film executives if it can be the case that every few years someone “newly” discovers that movies need to have good scripts to be good.

Mustard is known worldwide (esp in Japan where they put it on katsu), but there isn’t some worldwide known dish that mustard and ketchup compete for topping space on. Hotdogs aren’t as big a thing worldwide (or the idea of putting ketchup on them is considered deeply bizarre, like in Germany and Chicago). Mustard…