An analogy to help people understand this situation:

I do think it is quite ironic that, despite us ‘living in a capitalist market’ where we can choose whether to use their store or not use it, Epic has a very high-profile legal suit going on against Apple since they don’t agree with the terms of Apple’s digital storefront...

Guess the problem of exclusivity only matters when you can’t make your own store. 

Not interested in supporting Epics continued power grab.

Epic should probably not do this if they want a stronger case against Apple. It all matters to a jury.

Valve, EA, and Blizz “exclusives” are mostly by dev studios owned by Valve, EA, or Blizz.

“As an independent studio, our partnership with Epic has given us the freedom to create Hitman 3 exactly as we imagined and self-publish the game to our players directly.”

Apple built the mall. They provide the electricity, security guards, food court, merry-go-round, and all the other things that people come to see for all the business that want to use their services to make money. All they ask for is a cut of what you make and Epic knew how much that cut was when they moved in.  And…

They know it’s not the case, but they’re hoping that the groundswell of disaffected kids is enough to get Apple to back down.

Except it seems for most players, he was right.  People aren’t sticking around for Classic in the long run.

For the majority of people, he wasn’t wrong as not many stuck around Classic in the long run.

They can’t even win with the majority because the people crying for classic were never truly united over what they wanted from it, there was never any real majority for any particular implementation of classic. Pretty much everyone had a different idea of what it should be and nothing Blizzard could deliver would…

“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history…

You can frame it as only an opinion, but hate speech has consequences. Already it’s been used as justification to prevent protection to trans people in the states and the UK. Already it’s caused an uptick in hate towards trans people online and in real life. You’re worried about people having to move from one game to…

In case anyone here was still under the impression that JK Rowling isn’t a transphobe, she recently unfollowed Stephen King and deleted her tweets supporting him after he came out saying trans women are women.

This is why we have chosen not to make an official political statement.

I don’t think most white people are racists. I think most white people don’t think about race because they don’t have to.

“Even as states are slowly reopening...”

There is still production things to consider. Normal Virtual Ticket just streams from Blizzcon. Now that it is not physically happening, they need to decide what kind of stream show they are gonna do, where to film it and how. If they want to have production values anywhere near worth the normal Virtual Ticket price,…

Well deserved on SonicFox’s part! They’re probably one of the best things to ever come out of the FGC and I’m just happy anytime I see a headline with their name on it. I love that they try to give the time of day to a lot of different fighting games and don’t just stick with the ones that they know really well but,…