What are the odds he’s saying, “Boy!”?

A small typo - “A long period of united world records” might be “A long period of untied world records”

Well... I’ll consider picking it up once it does?

The falling out, if one there was, apparently was a result of how the change happened (Kojima didn’t bother to tell Hayter they were going with someone new. He had to call and find out.)

I’d agree with you about Snake, but the Japanese VA remained the same. The plot reason seems to have been a post-hoc rationalization.
::grumble grumble::

Yeah, specifying server costs was most likely a mistake. A more generic statement reads a bit like a truism though (a company acted in accordance with a cost benefit analysis, I’m shocked). Still, my bad.

It’s certainly possible that this is a play for goodwill. In that scenario, I’d expect to see some sort of “game of the year” edition released soon with all the extra content (at a higher price than the game is currently retailing).

As I’ve written to others, yeah, specifying server costs was probably a mistake on my part.
Two comments though:
1) I’d argue that reducing a decision to costs and benefits essentially already is a business decision. Whether they make the argument that the dollar amount attributed to potential goodwill gain is greater…

I do hobby game development when I’m not slaving in the code mines for less exciting industries, so I’ve got at least some idea of the difficulty involved. From a strictly cost perspective, I suspect that my specifying server costs is a mistake on my part. The man hours to make the changes mentioned in the article…

Yeah, specifying server costs is a bit of a mea culpa on my part. I was trying to be pithy.
Odds are they’re using on demand virtual servers, which would essentially negate server cost. A better statement might have been that the projected costs of keeping microtransactions exceeded projected revenues. It just didn’t…

When I was writing my original post, I considered that. On demand dynamic servers (assuming that they’re using those) really should essentially negate server cost as a consideration.
Really, the only way I can see the patch making financial sense if it had previously been developed as part of a planned end of lifing…

I’m guessing projected server costs exceeded projected revenues?

I actually derive relief from cracking certain joints. If the phenomenon is due to a partial bubble collapse, I’m curious as to what prompted the original buildup of gas?

A life spent in front of various screens has left me very pale. To the point where my most common medical recommendation is to get more sun (apparently they fear a vitamin d deficiency). How does that play into wearing sunscreen daily?

I’ve gotten that a few times too. Thankfully most of the time people are understanding, or don’t care enough to do the full explanation.

At least locally, the numbers used by robocallers are real numbers, they’re just being spoofed randomly. I know this, because my number has been used (I’ve actually received a call from myself with a robocall on the other end (at 1:11 A.M. the jerks)) Which means there is a low, but real probability, that blocking all…

But tell us, does Evermore have a Secret?

Ah, so you concede that small particles, irrespective of their origin, moving at hyperspeed will work just as well.
The movie, unfortunately, shows that your proposed scenario is wrong. A ship hyperdrived into one that was relatively much larger... with catastrophic effect.

Debris is debris. It doesn’t matter where it came from. Small chunks moving impossibly fast destroyed those ships.

Reading through your comments, you seem hung up on a massive ship being needed for this. But as you mentioned a debris cloud was perfectly capable of taking down the capital ships behind the large one. Therefore, a large ship isn’t necessary. Small chunks apparently work just fine.