Wetman might be thinking of the ‘ad settings’ toggle, but that’s not the same thing as the commercial sounds library and it requires a secret code from the original creator to even use anyway. The commercial library is a different thing, which only contains sounds pre-cleared for commercial use - no additional…

Indeed. House is based on Howard Hughes, a man considered brilliant, good looking and charismatic in his earlier life. Elmo has none of those things, but I could certainly believe he’s on a similar path to insanity. Just replace Hughes’ OCD with Elmo’s megalomania and delusions of adequacy.

Are you sure? If it’s true that he marked the audio free for commercial use then sent legal threats about using it, he’s a piece of shit too.

Dude can’t wrap his head around the idea that gamers don’t want to engage for 200+ hours with the same game anymore.

The AC side quests have gradually improved over time. Odyssey and Valhalla both had a good amount of pretty fun ones mixed in with the cookie-cutter ones.

Every paragraph, if possible.

and zero reporting on [...] the abysmal, game ruining seasonal patch

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The last time this story came up in 2021, Ubisoft cited GDPR data retention laws as the reason.

They were in front of this story though - this exact same youtuber clickbait panic happened in 2021 and Ubisoft answered all these questions back then already. The only thing that’s different this time is a support tech tweeted how you can avoid account closure and everyone decided that meant Ubisoft was deleting…

This exact same story came up in 2021, including the exact same answer from Ubisoft about how they don’t delete accounts with purchases on them, and the reason they gave then was GDPR requirements to delete data once it’s no longer needed. Account data is needed to service accounts with purchases on them, but it’s not…

Please, stop making me visit Tatooine

As seen in Star Wars Handbook 3: Dark Empire (2000). The pivoting design element for this fighter has been around for more than twenty years.

The Microsoft quote was about preventing the title from becoming Sony exclusive, not about making it Microsoft exclusive. Nice try, but all you really showed me there is you don’t even read what’s in front of you. “LOL” indeed.

What you personally doubt and appeals to “common sense” aren’t data. If you want to make the case that there’s a market where this purchase gives Microsoft lead position or substantially reduces competition, then be specific: name the market and go find the data yourself that proves your point.

I’m not ignoring anything. All of the companies in the 2021 dataset operate in the same space, excepting possibly Tencent.

It is complicated but Activision Blizzard is not a 5% of market share company which is why so many people cared about this acquisition.

Lost the edit window, just wanted to clarify that 2010 and 2011 also had timed map packs for Xbox as well as some other edition exclusive trinkets for both platforms. I can’t find anything about exclusive anything for 2012 even though it would be within the ‘Xbox timed exclusives’ window.

I don’t know why everyone seems to conveniently forget that Xbox had CoD on lock back on the Xbox 360 with the marketing and exclusive content and all that. Activision jumped ship to PlayStation along with millions of Xbox gamers when it was clear Xbox One was going to flop.

Unfortunately, I’m not petty enough to hang on to this comment/screenshot for a console generation/decade or however long it takes to Be Right Online, no matter how much I do enjoy it.