5% toxic players is not good. Each game has 10 players. That means, approximately, every 2 games you play, one of them will contain a harassing element. Those aren't acceptable statistics.

>China will never stop to surprise me...

Why would China stop just to surprise you?

EQ2 also had voice acting in important quests for the first time in MMO history.

DKs have been doing nonsense like this since their creation. Blizzard has never been able to properly balance them into their unbalanced world.

And now we have Gamergaters ruining all that hard work...

that is the same flawed thinking as "MMOs are either WoW-killers or failures".

the dream of the 90's is alive

The force pushing the bullet out of the gun would be put upon you so you should be pushed back pretty quickly.

I'm pretty sure none of the games you mentioned are even finished yet so how can you be sure they deserve your money? Not trolling but all those games you mentioned aren't even released yet lol

Are they just trying there best to copy eve online? Cause going from spaceship game to FPS is pretty specific (and not a smart move as eve shown).

wow... that's racist if you think it resembles those tribes. But i'll indulge you, explain what aspects of them do you think it resembles? Is it the shouting ooga booga?

Wait, the main character isn't a girl?

Because it keeps making them money like crazy.

Hold it right there!

Plenty of people weren't gamers in 2010 but are now. It's a rapidly expanding medium. And gamers really need to get over the whole true Scotsman thing, anyway.

I have watched the videos, and I'm familiar with how academia works. She didn't "silence" critics; I mean, here you are, right now, talking about it. Turning off comments on her Youtube videos (which, for god's sake, even people like TotalBiscuit have done) is not "silencing critics" in any meaningful sense.

When you…

Little Sisters are defenseless children. Big Daddies are huge, hulking, armored, weaponized fighting machines. You have done a good job undermining your own argument.

Giving examples isn't cherry picking.

Being critical of video games is not "treating the medium as a punching bag." It's called "treating the medium with the respect it deserves." Film, books, music, literally every other artistic medium receives, and should receive, the same critical treatment.

thunderf00t is an "atheist"/anti-feminist critic on Youtube who has produced some of the most famous "rebuttals" to her work. That's why I bring him up.

Do you have any examples of her confusion between a "general" trope and a gender-specific one? Regardless, I don't think it actually really matters, particularly if…