Nope, Keep only ever allowed you to build one from scratch for DA:I.

Guerilla Games is definitely a first party studio and the Decima engine is a Sony engine. Its why Man Of Medan had to switch to Unreal when going multiplatform unlike Until Dawn. Hell the former head of Guerilla is now running Playstation.  Guerilla was sold to Sony in 2005.  You might be thinking if Insomniac games…

But access to private property isn’t even a right.

respect my rights and no one else’s

Jesus CHRIST Ubisoft, what the hell is wrong with you?! I went into this article assuming it would just be a case of them using something a graphic or imagery similar to the raised-fist in a poorly thought out or negative context that somebody should have noticed and scrapped ahead of time. But the fact that the whole…

Andromeda and DA:I had similar issues in that they were really good games that dragged on into tedium due to being stuffed with too much unrewarding filler.

Well, thanks to the Herbs, we won’t get the Schreier article about how Bioware did or didn’t learn their lessons this time.

Eh, I thought Andromeda got more hate than it deserved. I didn’t love it, and it definitely had problems, but I thought the story and characters were good and the game as a whole was enjoyable.

Why do their fans need to be engaged with their financial legal battle?

Drags out for months and both parties are ready and willing to pay. Someone’s gonna win here, and I doubt it’s either of them.

Out of curiosity, why is 30% a “crazy” amount? What’s your frame of reference for a reasonable amount? 30% has been the industry standard cut for over a decade, after all. Do you have inside info on how much it costs to build a digital distribution platform, establish a huge user base and then continue to expand and…

I think the key difference is that everything Apple has done and will do is in direct response to Epic.

Asking for special treatment for yourself and also hoping Apple would extend it to others is not the same as not asking for special treatment.

Because they didn’t. Epic Violated TOS when they circumvented the app store, and most assuredly again when they launched a negative campaign against Apple, and the protocol for doing so was removing the offending app, and then removing the offending company, respectively. 

It’s funny that people are upset with Epic “weaponizing” its users, as if Apple doesn’t do the same thing trying to convince its users that the “Walled Garden” (so pretentious) is there to protect them from the big scary internet.

There is a kind of neutrality here: Winning this case would in fact benefit players, indie developers, and yes, the heads of a big billionaire company, all of whom are different kinds of people with different kinds of beliefs, lifestyles, and needs. But bringing all this inside the game is recruiting Fortnite’s…

recruiting their impressionable 14 year old fans to become online warriors for their billion dollar company is so. fucking. gross.

So basically you think Kotaku should adopt your opinion....?

Other tech giants like Spotify, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Microsoft have been fighting Apple (and Google) over App Store policies for a lot longer than Epic has. And Epic had other means at its disposal to engage in its brinksmanship over the availability of Fortnite – including this distasteful weaponization of…

Weaponizing the playerbase really rubs me the wrong way.