fair enough =)

well, it is a beta. not really a 'launch' yet.

Anyone who uses 'innovation' as part of their product description is automatically not worth listening to in most cases.

When it's done well it means you get unique worlds on every playthrough. when it's not done well it means those worlds are boring and uninteresting. The developer needs to pull it off right.

facial hair and pipe == hipster? man I'm out of touch with modern culture.

You're clearly watching the wrong shows. Fanservice shows tend to get the spotlight more than I care for, when there are plenty of other series out there.

PC may've invented demos/shareware, but there really aren't that many modern PC games that release demos. It's kind of annoying really. Valve is usually pretty good about it, but most others don't seem to want to bother — or when they do, it's not until months after the game was actually released to begin with.

Also, RedBox, Gamefly, etc are for *console* games. I'm not a console gamer. Consoles are also kind of outside the scope of this discussion.

By 'legit' I mean "actual", as in, people do actually do that. Not arguing that it's "right" or "legal".

Go ahead and eyeroll all you want. I'm not rationalizing stealing, because it's not stealing to begin with. It's not even lost sales. If I were pirating without the intent to buy, you might actually have a point, but my steam games list tells another story entirely. All I'm saying is, not everyone pirates simply…

Indeed, I'm not speaking about the person in question here specifically, just that "try before you buy" is a legit reason a lot of otherwise financially-capable people still pirate games. The guy in this article is shady as heck, no doubt.

If you pirate and then buy shortly afterward, a crime has been committed but the net effect in the meantime was consistently zero — nothing was ever actually lost. You're not depriving them of revenue or product. By making the purchase as soon as you're able, you can't even say you caused a lost sale. Had you not…

keyboard + keyboard port, mouse, phone, up to 3 USB drives, up to 3 Arduinos, headset, oculus rift, monitor (with built-in card reader and hub), Bluetooth dongle, NVidia 3d vision transceiver, probably more... I have a crapton of USB ports on my PC and still manage to run out every now and then.

Some of us actually follow through with it. I'm personally of the variety that prefers to just buy games right-out, and eat the cost if I don't end up liking the game (which has unfortunately cluttered my steam list with some games that ended up being crap...), but if a game gets released a few days before my paycheck…

It's actually pretty common. Pirate a game, and if you like it and want to keep playing it, buy it.

Agreed. I'm actually in the process of pricing a midrange PC build for a friend right now, and the total for this build (i5 with GTX750) is around $700. A gaming console plus a basic non-gaming PC from a prebuilt vendor would be around the same cost. Admittedly, not everyone wants or needs a PC for general-purpose…

You're right, but it's easy for people to cite the higher cost of a PC without considering how much more useful a PC is outside of gaming.

is this a meme now?

Always a pleasure =)

Part of the rules of anthropomorphism — the less human you make the design, the harder it is to empathize with it, and the more creepy/weird it can look. Ika Musume's design is pretty safe since the show was meant to be cute and funny, rather than realistic.