This is one of those “lets make some satire about a thing, but then do that thing anyway” sort of situations that loops back around to being..... not funny? Like how is pointing out that you’re trying to fuck people over in your own game a joke?

Simpsons tapped out had the same problem of being self aware of the industry, very tongue-in-cheek, before becoming literally everything it was a mockery of mere moments later.

Either this guy is an idiot or he thinks everyone else is. Nobody is going to complain if they start getting duplicates of items after they already have everything. The reason there are still duplicates is so you’ll spend more money trying to get the item you’re after.

Too bad the PC port is a total shit show. Vsync tearing, crashing, etc etc. And still not completely addressed with their latest patch..

Actually, as contractor with the Federal government, you surrender any and all legal rights of a product, or property, intellectual or otherwise, to the U.S. Government when you agree to do business with a Federal agency. The U.S. Government has that stipulation in all its legal agreements when doing business with a…

I honestly don’t care about skins especially when some of these are just recolors if they would give us the ability to customize the actual color of any skins that would be awesome

As usual, Kaplan trying to convince the fanbase that they are always hearing us and trying to find solutions. Emergherd Blazzard is da best! We all know its BS Jeff...

Good, evil, they can call it whatever they want but I’m done with it.
So I hear that now you don’t get duplicates...and that’s supposed to be a good thing?!? Duplicates seemed like a great way to get gold to just buy exactly what you want. With no duplicates I imagine you’re stuck unboxing the gazillions of sprays…

For all those “It’s just cosmetic” apologists...

I’m just happy Mario Odyssey’s outfits weren’t locked behind lootboxes.

Not all loot boxes are evil, but all loot boxes are predatory. They are intentionally designed to prey upon gambling addiction. Full stop. There is no other design philosophy behind it other than “get them to open their wallets as often as possible, through any manipulation necessary.”

Even holiday events are like…

They used an insidious strategy of taking it too far from the start and then dialing the FUCK YOU meter back on it just a bit so people would be more willing to accept the ass reaming.

And it’s rapidly becoming the norm.

If you can buy loot boxes for real money instead of just being able to buy the skins or things you want directly, then yes, they’re evil.

Of course being able to just buy the skins I want would be better...

Of course they fucking did.

Street-level drug dealer: “Yo, man, this heroin is the very good stuff. Not the very evil stuff.”

“I think on the big spectrum of getting children hooked on gambling, between ‘really good’ and ‘really evil,’ I’d like to think we’re more on that ‘really good’ side with what we’re trying to do,” says casino boss who targets minors.

This game is less than two weeks old and there’s already DLC? There is no reason to not include this in the standard game.

I’d say the tree would be a spoiler because in the background, you can see Princess Peach’s castle, which wasn’t confirmed, or even really expected, to be in the game. I’ll totally admit that if I had seen that picture before I actually got there, I would have been a tiny bit disappointed, but not much.

Oh my god, I can relate to this. Went through his phone when he went to the bathroom cause he had been pretty damn bad about hiding it earlier that day. Bam. Most recent text convo.