The three major game console manufacturers existed for a long time as companies in other fields before they made a single video game. Nintendo was mostly a toy company and started out doing nothing but selling playing cards, and Sony and Microsoft worked in other tech fields. Sure, you could use Microsoft OS’s to play…

In the states, the rights to shows belong usually either to the network or the production company. Sometimes creators have merchandizing royalties in their contract, but it is far from universal. It’s also standard in US contracts for anything that you create under contract to belong to the company that you work for,…

It does not. John K. will get no royalties from this game. Source: a previous Kotaku article clarified this. Neither will Chris Savino or Butch Hartman, who are two other figures who created franchises represented here who have done some stuff that would make people hesitant to financially support them (although…

Tim Curry would actually be hypothetically available. He suffered a stroke recently which has limited his live action roles because he has to use a wheelchair to get around, but he has continued to do voice work after he recovered enough. He is set to have his voice in an animated film to be released in 2021.

I’m guessing it’s partly the pedigree of the developer. Most people assumed the Cartoon Network one would be a bad cash grab and weren’t giving any evidence to the contrary. This is being developed by a developer with a proven competent track record in this genre, hence the difference in hype.

I can not understand why somebody acts the way they act without thinking that they are an idiot, and I never meant to imply that someone was just because I don’t understand their actions. To use an example, I don’t understand the appeal of professional wrestling, but I don’t remotely believe that professional…

My problem is that if I’m playing games not on Gamepass, then I’m buying games in addition to paying a monthly fee, and I’ll end up spending more money than I would have if I just bought the games that I was interested in playing. And I’ll feel guilty for wasting money by not playing games on Gamepass.

I never implied that. I said it could be “yanked” away from you, which I used because it invokes the idea of something being removed from your arms forcefully, which is analogous to what this feels like to me. Even if you are given proper warning, it is still being “yanked” away from you. I never meant to imply that…

My comment that I don’t understand the appeal isn’t misplaced. I acknowledge that there clearly is an appeal, as people do sign up for it and enjoy it, and I never said or implied otherwise. I just don’t get it. I don’t need 100s and 100s of games to keep me occupied, and I don’t understand why anyone else would…

I’ve never said that this service shouldn’t exist or that people shouldn’t use it if they like it. I said that I personally hate it and don’t understand what the appeal is. That is true with a lot of things that I don’t think should be banned or not exist. I wasn’t trying to pick fights with people. I expressed an…

Yes, I don’t like the idea of renting video games. It does not have any appeal to me. I never denied that it was not analogous to renting or implied that the practice was dishonest or that people weren’t getting what was said on the tin. I don’t like the idea of renting games and don’t see the appeal, because you lose…

“That’s an incredibly dramatic way to describe a rental service. It’s like netflix, there is a selection available at any given time, usually a very long time (and indefinitely for first party publications). Moreover, you know what’s leaving in advance so it’s not “yanked away” (seriously... come on), and you can keep…

Yeah, I made that mistake. I still don’t like the idea of the service, but that point I made is invalid.

I rarely buy games that are $40-60 a title, and when I do it’s usually either on sale, or a Nintendo game that’s not on Gamepass anyways.

I often take a long time to play through games, so even a month’s notice would be supremely annoying to me. And just the thought that a game could potentially be taken away from me that I was currently playing through is extremely stressful to me. I also like to go back and replay old favorites sometimes, and this…

I do play plenty of non-Nintendo games, just most of them are in the indie scene, not AAA. I own a gaming PC and PS4. I just don’t care for shooters and open world games, which are about 90% of the AAA games made today.

I don’t want access to the game that I’m in the middle of playing yanked away from me at any time because of the decision of some bureaucrat. If my internet decides to start acting up (which it does often), I can’t play anything. I can get most of the games I want for less money than a gaming service would cost me…

I hate the idea of a game streaming service. I have never seen the appeal.

I just want to play Toph.

Yeah, Bao fell pretty flat for me. The premise was just too weird to get me emotionally invested. This looks promising, though.