You know how there’s Oscar-bait movies - movies that pander directly to Hollywood bigshots who run awards ceremonies?

I’m surprised that you didn’t mention the elephant in the room: streaming companies. Streaming companies owned by tech giants have been pouring money into award campaigns for years now, mostly successfully. I got the sense with this years Oscar’s that there was a backlash, and a concerted effort to reward traditional…

My person this is a live service game. Product is all it is.

User reviews still have value as a whole. Review bombings are the exception, not the rule, so it’s important to maintain perspective.

Everywhere I saw those dev responses it was met with praise. The people they’re arguing with are the sweats who were kicking people for not running railgun/shield a week ago.

I’m perusing the comments here and primary take-away (as a non-player) is that the game got harder, and people playing at higher difficulties are mad at the idea of playing at lower difficulties because pride.

This is pretty standard behavior for any live service game.  Anytime an OP or top meta strategy or play style gets changed...nothing but raging from the man babies.  Pick a live service game...if a patch doesnt make it easier for people to run top tier builds and get easier wins...nothing but rage.  Just my own pet…

It’s not really the correct response if you’re running a business and trying to sell a product to customers. That’s why PR training exists and why employees without said training usually aren’t allowed to interact with customers.

Reading the comments here is already enough for me to see that there are two extreme factions clashing against each other and I don’t want to be part of that community.

One goes extreme ways against devs, the other goes completely elitist and calls everyone whiners who even dares to criticize anything. Hell, to the…

I think everyone sucks here. Players are being whiny, devs shouldn’t speak to customers that way if they want to be professional. People act like games are their life and their life is ruined if a gun is less powerful, probably only temporarily until they do another balance update.

As a parent I would also always choose being around other people’s dogs as opposed to their children.

It’s fine having a different take but I don’t think either opinions can live in a vacuum of anyone making grand statements. Just as I don’t think it’s the worse thing ever, at the same time it’s a massive reach to say it was an ending ahead of it’s time. Most people you ask will say it’s bad while others may feel…

Never really warmed to Bewitched (although Elizabeth Montgomery was delightful). And I finally saw Hocus Pocus just recently (and didn’t like it much). Not sure I ever saw one episode of Sabrina.

I'm interested in Stellar Blade but I feel like it's gonna be on those games that get co-opted by the incels the same way they tried with Nier Automata. 

I’ll never get over the sheer incelity of the guy who was calling Aloy “hideous” and when his dumb bitch buddies agreed, he got into detail, and part of it was that she’s so realistically rendered you can see the fine hairs on her face, and he, god fucking help us, though this was a sign of a “progressive agenda”…

My favorite qoute about being “woke” came from Howard Stern of all people, and I’ll all for it:

The word was quickly demonized when it was gaining steam on social media for having compassion and “awareness” for marginalized community suffering a few years back. A lot of people in power took it, twisted it, and turned it into a narrative that it means “anti-white”, “Anti-cis” or “anti-establishment”, etc, to…

There is something wild about claiming a character that looks straight out of a hentai is “tradition.”

I’m still annoyed about how ‘woke’ has been taken out of context for agendas in the first place.

You know what? Even if it were pushing a woke agenda, I'd be fine with that. We have had enough machism, jingoism, chauvinism and racism in our games.