It hasn’t just grown. It has grown exponentially, and so have sales of individual AAA games. And like I said so has the avenues of extra income they’re exploiting now compared to then, in addition to MSRP.

The linchpin of this entire “heist” was having access to the 1000 shares, something that’s apparently not usually possible for a non-member, and the poster is intentionally being coy about how they got them.

If you don’t care about the Minute Men faction, you can make it even less and just never go to Sanctuary after Concord. Then you’ll never see it.

And that’s no issue at all, since the market size has grown exponentially too, so all that extra effort is easily covered by the gaming market rising from 10 bn USD in 2005 to 220 bn in 2022.
Some of that is from an increase in unit sales, and some is from the fact that most AAA publishers also chop everything up into…

Arne in “Flickering Lights”, though...

Especially with the line “As an adult, I know I can have that validation without it having to be named after the origin point for everything destructive in this setting.” there’s a real sense that this article posits that S. Slytherin is the origin point of everything bad.
That seems unlikely to me - S. Slytherin was a…

I don’t know a whole lot about collecting, but it’s likely that not grading it would be seen as a sketchy move and make top end buyers think twice - the process probably also verifies that it’s likely to be genuine and not a copy.

You know, when I read that there were Jack Skellingtons in there, I was instinctively like “Oh MAN! Really?? I wish I could be there to scoop up a few”.

But then I stopped for TWO SECONDS and remembered what Funko Pops actually look like.
Nah, shredding them was and is always the right call, right after not producing…

Hey, this is the kind of big brain plays that get you the big corporate bonuses.

Bobby Kotick. Bobby Kotick is that moron.

I do not at all agree about Jack. I didn’t much care for her character the first time around, but she grew on me and at least she has presence. I liked Miranda and Jacobs stories, though their characters left much to be desired (especially Jacob).
The rest of them can suck a bomb though. I suppose Ashley was there to…

I absolutely liked ME:A a lot. I’ve played it 3 times so far - never to completion, but I rarely complete games, I generally stop at the point of no return.

It wasn’t what I wished for and yes, like the article mentioned, there’s a lot of open world stuff that could be trimmed - not all of it mind you, but some of the…

To be clear - this all means that here, for many people, “tax time” feels like a gift. You paid into it yourself, so you’re not actually getting anything for free, but because it all happens automatically it *feels* kinda like that. So it’s a bit of excitement with a payoff that feels ok to spend on frivolous stuff…

Yeah as a European this game isn’t super exciting, but I do love the statement they are making, because the American tax system is insane.
I firmly believe it’s one of the primary reasons Americans are so much against taxes as a concept (despite their country literally being founded on the idea of getting…

Whether it ends up “good for the industry” depends entirely on the details of monetization and ownership.
That some kids got their start by doing unpaid child labour for someone else to capitalize on (in several layers) in Roblox is not “good for the industry”. They could, and would in earlier years, have gotten that…

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure this is neat, and a fine way to do a surprise.
But I don’t feel like it’s that reminiscent of the original; the Butcher was only a surprise once. After that you knew what to look for, and could easily avoid/prepare. If I understand this correctly, in this iteration there’s no environmental…

I’m at the same place as you with this. I don’t get why it has to be there *at all* - Diablo games never had it before, why is it all of the sudden mandatory?
In D2/3 there were class specific skills that enhanced movement, limited by resources or CD, but going from that to *expecting* infinite dodge-roll for all is…

I love LBA... nostalgically.
I feel like for it to work today, it’d need to be a full remake (complete with reimagined controls/movement/hit penalties rather than just recreated) because I am not putting myself through that again. It was even frustrating back then.
It was absolutely the world, characters and graphics…

She probably didn’t, but also she strikes me as the kind of person who’d still get a smile or a chuckle out of it herself.

He doesn’t *remember* hearing of it.
I may have heard of many TV shows that I’d tell you I’d never heard of, simply because I don’t give two shits about TV. In one ear and out the other.
A lot of the stuff I do remember is unfortunately because of ads and articles on pop culture sites - having them shoved down my…