This statement is patently false:

The thing is there’s always been the option to not include payment options within an app. Amazon Prime Video has done that the whole time I’ve used it. If I want to rent a movie through Prime Video I leave the app, rent the movie on a browser, and return to the app. Would it be easier to just choose to pay within the…

Why would anyone care if other people like Bethesda? How is that relevant? I’ve played several of their “best” games: Morrowind was unplayable with the random hit in a real-time game, FO3 was less bad with the hit randomizer but it was still there and they made Fallout boring, Skyrim fixed the hit randomizer but was…

I don’t know. I’ve heard that Sony is bad and evil and should give things away for free or die.

Pretty sure the Spider-Man license is tied to Sony owning the movie rights, which is why stand-alone Spidey is Sony. But the film side of Sony has struggled, so they’re playing nice to get some of that sweet, sweet MCU money.

This. 

Literally every Star Wars game has been published by EA since I was a small child. EA has never to my knowledge published a Bethesda game, which mostly suck. 

I’m sure you are looking forward to that because then your dad can approach you and tell you the five words you’ve been waiting all those years to hear, “I’ll take a chalupa meal.”

Take a geography class and learn to read. I didn’t mention China. Bye. 

If they were real Pokémon Oreos they’d have two packages, one with the top wafer and the other with the bottom wafer (they’d both have the creme).

No. Your understanding of inflation is wrong. Yesterday’s costs and revenues need to be adjusted for today’s real value to compare expenses or earnings across time; otherwise everything new would always be the biggest and best which isn’t true. Yesterday’s profits don’t get inflated to today’s value the same way…

I’d buy a dictionary but it’s clear you’d just use it as a tampon as it’s clearly that time of the month. 

Geography isn’t your strong suit either. Good day. 

Not sure what games you’re buying but I regularly beat SNES games in hours. FFVII was a 40 hour game. The games I’ve been playing are 40-60 plus replay value that I never had before. Are EA and Activision milking customers for every penny? Sure. Don’t buy their games and they’ll change. So I’d rate your statement as…

China imposes misguided law on consoles

To be fair, I’d hope GOTY and complete editions are primarily bought by people who don’t own the base game. 

And everyone who wants that is free to buy an XBX and really stick it to Sony. Forza is cool, like Gran Tourismo. And Halo used to be good, maybe they’ll make a new one of those. Oh and there’s Bethesda, so maybe more Skyrim and bad Fallout. 

Goddam that’s stupid. Look up the largest development costs for video games of all time and appreciate how they’re all in the last 25 years and pretty recent. Also do you think paying employees isn’t a cost of doing business?

9 million times $120 today equals $1 billion in profit? No. Nintendo didn’t get $120 per copy. The total retail for DKC was capped at $450 million. But cartridges cost a lot of money to make. Cartridges cost a lot to ship because they’re bulky and expensive (insurance). Retailers take a portion of all sales. Not all…

You’re free to buy this year’s hot game in two years as a platinum of GOTY version for a nice discount with all the DLC. Games are a luxury item and cost money to make. The people that make them would like compensated for their effort just like everyone else, and the companies they work for expect profit just like…