If you’re on desktop and you halve your browser screen width (or close enough), the slideshows display as a single page. Sure, we shouldn’t need a workaround to avoid the practice of bumping up page views but it’s there should you need it. 

The convention center tends to be relatively cool, so there’s that at least. But yeah, stepping out the front door would be tough. Like the other person said, there are ways to mitigate the heat via cooling packs though. 

Did I say anywhere that they didn’t? I just said that most people don’t spend money on F2P games and monetization strategies have that as a built in part of their approach.

According to the LA Times, Blizzard explained in a follow-up email that the “vast majority” of players are not spending money in the game, but wouldn’t share any specific details.

Many companies in gaming outsource their social media marketing. It can potentially be less than the cost of hiring a good employee or two for a year i.e. their salary+benefits > yearly cost of paying an agency to manage it.

That said, someone from the EA side has to approve their work before it goes out. There’s no…

This REEKS of third party agency trying to stir the pot.

However, I think it’s more likely that they have a point of contact on the EA side that just rubberstamps their content calendars and didn’t think anything of the messaging behind it as opposed to not caring necessarily.

I think the majority of people who work…

As someone who works in video game marketing: No. Most are not.

Many are handled by professionals internally. Many are also handled by third parties hired to manage the accounts.

The worst part about this EA thing is that there were probably multiple check ins with a variety of stakeholders on this thing and everyone…

Thank you.

I lost my little brother last year due to a recurrence of his cancer. I didn’t watch Technoblade but I did watch the video his family posted.

Heartbreaking is the only way to describe it. More so when you can relate with the idea that such a young life is no longer with us. It’s still hard to come to grips with the…

Have only really scratched the surface but it’s pretty awesome. Feast for the eyes. Easter eggs galore. I’ve only played the story with Raf and Donatello for a bit but I’m super happy about it. 

These are PC only. 

I feel like the entire marketing cycle for this game has been Sega having to explain why our eyes are actually deceiving us and they have actually invented something super original and great.

The very best part of them going “you don’t get it” is that no one forced them to choose the footage that they have chosen to…

Oh wow, even beyond regular Netease games? Holy shit, I thought it was just the typical bad mobile thing but worse because there’s a beloved IP attached to it. To think that there was another bottom to get to for mobile game monetization is ridiculous. 

And to add it’s not like Netease kept their monetization strategies secret.

Maybe not every single person involved with the project was kept up to date on every aspect of it but Blizzard absolutely signed off on the approach that is being lambasted in gaming media which is likely making them the hand over fist that…

YOU and your team are the ones that decided that this was the very best material to illustrate what the game is supposed to be at an absolutely pivotal moment in the life of the product.

If anyone comes away from that not understanding what the game is supposed to be, that’s a fundamental failure on the part of…

This is also a matter of Nintendo being the top dog in this particular instance. In the case of Sega, they need to build up goodwill as one of the secondary publishers/devs out there.

I know it’s not a 3rd person Action Adventure but from what I remember the Telltale games had a lot of that kind of Batman. 

$5.5m is 0.05% of the company’s 2018's declared revenue. This figure is meaningless to it.

Yes, less popular versions exist, what’s your point, my dude? Ultimately, we’re trading anecdotes and apparently going to go around in circles because...reasons.

Okay, but is that actually true? I’m not actually convinced of that. If there’s some way to back that up then, while I agree it’s cynical, it at least makes sense.