“It’s only cosmetics” has never held water for me. I like cosmetics. They’re important. They are a part of the game I enjoy, and just because some people don’t care, doesn’t mean you can nickle and dime on something I do enjoy. I am absolutely fine with paying for more video game up front. Been buying games with…

Agree on being bored of these defences. Theres not really anything new to add here, same old stuff about “games are unsustainable” as id the industry isn’t richer than ever.

With the caveat that harassing developers is NEVER okay and anyone involved with it should be utterly ashamed, and that much of the furor over this game specifically was done by misogynist gamergate assholes...

...I am getting completely sick of seeing microtransaction puff-pieces. Especially from an outlet that put…

We don’t have anything other than highly vested participants’ takes on this option.

I hope that shilling and defending those multinational corporations are paying you well for that white knighting. Just remember, they wont give you free games for doing so.

Ninja Theory, CD Project Red and other developers would like to disagree. They dont seem to be having trouble making money by delivering games without micro-transactions.

Or games lower their dev cost. Scale back on some features.  Don't make those bleeding edge graphics.  

Then games need to go up in price. The $50-60 pricing model has not kept up with inflation. At all. It’s either get this game with some minor microtransactions, or we will increasingly not see these games much at all.

I fully support the message about harassment ... the microtransaction apologism, not so much. After 10 years of increasingly predatory monetization the “you don’t understand the videogame industry”and “it’s just cosmetics” excuses are hollow.

I’m still confused as to what the angry mob didn’t like about TLJ. Other than the dull (imo) casino sideplot, the rest of the film is great.

FFS, please stop saying “timelines” when talking about this show. There are multiple time PERIODS, one could even say multiple timeFRAMES, but the use of the “timelines” in sci-fi strongly implies time travel and/or alternate universes, and there is nothing in West World to indicate there’s any of that going on.

As someone pointed out in another thread, one of the Bernards in that screenshot has the scar, too. And another has a bigger dent in his head.

What am I doing wrong as a female gamer that always plays a female character to not get offered free goods for services?!!

That and most of the 100 people didn’t affect the plane stopping/exploding. You could probably put 20-ish people in front of the front wheel and that would do it.

Scientific experimentation this is not.

But...that’s dumb. The first two attempts the front wheel wasn’t on the ground, but for the last one it was. That’s probably your answer right there...