Ever worse than that after it did work you got put in a wait list.  I was in a 5 hour queue to enter for a giveaway that was only running during the show. 

Gleam claims no one contacted them about the giveaway and the massive traffic increase it would bring

The thing that struck me as the most insane about this year’s show was the total lack of any rhyme or reason for the awards that got the Keighley shotgun treatment, and the awards that got an actual presentation.

vs Kojima showing up to once more show off that he knows people in Hollywood.

The way they kept, almost instantly, playing people off was terrible. It really felt like they don’t give a shit about the awards when they have to bring out Kojima to announce nothing for eons. Geoff even ‘thanking’ the first winners for keeping it short felt less like the joke he, no doubt, intended it to be and…

I think it’s telling how seriously the “awards show” aspect is taken when you’ve got plenty of celebrity appearances hocking their upcoming projects/products for minutes at a time, while the folks winning the awards are quickly ushered off stage.

That’s not to say celebrities don’t belong on the Game Awards stage; just…

Lol your example is terrible.

There was a case where a white female cosplayer made a full-body costume for a black male character. This was a body suit with fake muscles and everything. Naturally, the body suit had a dark pigmentation to match the character’s. People freaked out about this and accused her of using blackface.

Agreed. Your rebuttal is tired.

That’s not true across the board. Sure, sales of Call of Duty titles have consistently gone up, but Halo, for example, has never topped Halo 3's sales of 14 million copies*. Hell, no Halo game since 3 has even hit 10 million. That includes Reach and Master Chief Collection. Obviously, Infinite is a little harder to…

Agreed.. while I’m not happy to pay more, I’ve been paying $60 for 25+ years for games... everything else in my life has increased in price over the span of 2+ decades, including all other forms of entertainment.. so I don’t feel I can fairly complain about a roughly 15% price increase. Besides, game sales are so…

Ah, yes, to be an old and to be utterly impervious to the zeitgeist.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...fuck you, popular culture. I will consume you only on my terms. I was always destined to die uncool, but I will die with a full belly and a warm home while having supped (cheaply) at your teet for the better part of (hopefully) five…

I paid more than $60 for SNES games on release, and that was in 90s money. If you take inflation into account, game prices have dropped by half over the last 30 years.

And this is such a tired rebuttal.

The influx of new purchasers alone is so much exponentially higher than it was in the 60-dollar era. Personally I wait a year or two, since FOMO has no power over me in my 40's. Then I snag a copy for a quarter the cost.

People really shouldn't still or have had a problem with this. It's 10 bucks and the price had been 60 for a decade and a half. It was never going to stay flat. 

Not on Steam but on Itch, but I have high hopes for this one called “age of brass”

I was just chastising Polygon for failing to reference Twitter when mentioning X, as that’s the sort of thing that would drive Musk crazy.  Your way is even better, though.

A solid 8 of a game ruined by whiney "fans"

It was fine. It wasn’t great by any stretch of the imagination, but it was definitely better than people made out. Call it Saint’s Row: Andromeda.

Man, it’s too bad this happened AFTER the studio went under :/. That’s pretty cool though, that something like this can have such an effect on size of a player base.