It’s just a gamble with Mad Catz, who have never been synonymous with quality. They just have never had good full process build and quality control. Some units will last, some won’t.

I hate corporate (or others) assholes who lie to us baldface and think they should be called out on it when they do so.

I had the R.A.T. 7 and loved it, but like all of Mad Catz’s stuff it managed to die right after the warranty expired (a year).

It’s not believable because of what they were doing at the time.

It’s not believable at all because of what they were doing at the time. If you really have a big plan for corporate diversity that you’re about to implement any second now, you aren’t harassing whistleblowers, for instance.

Yeah, I read some good things and I read some utter bullshit damage control. This was the most egregious of the latter - it’s not even remotely believable. You don’t have a strong company dedication to equality and plan for improving it and not do a single goddamn thing to advance that while shutting down all…

Part of Roseboro’s narrative, and the narrative of others Kotaku interviewed, is that Riot’s diversity efforts were initiated well in advance of the expose; that the expose served to speed them up. “A lot of these efforts are sold to us in a very extreme way. . . The TL;DR is, ‘We always want to do D&I [diversity…

There will be a small number of players who would see the odds and decide to stop playing. But these are the people with enough self control and financial literacy that they won’t have a problem with reckless gambling in the first place.  You’re providing people who strongly suspect the odds are terrible with proof…

Why yes, I’m proud to be one of those people who thinks paid random loot boxes are exploitative gambling and think they should be out of games.

Some of the worst offending games, like Fate Grand Order, already disclose their odds and always have. If you look on the Nintendo side there’s Lost Dragalia and Fire Emblem Fates - they disclose their rates as well. There’s lots of 0.1% and lower for your five stars, but there’s no backlash and no ‘taking a much…

This is useless, just a bow on a turd. Disclosing loot box odds is just basic decency.

The Ooblets devs deliberately taunted The Beast and poked it in the eye, so this was a predictable (and predicted) result. Maybe it’ll lead to more sales from the publicity.

Y2K ended up not being a huge deal because

He’d have been better to ignore them and just gone with a positive message. Pre-emptively responding to every internet troll is a terrible idea and just leaves you worse off. They win without even having to do anything.

Because I’m not selling a product and this is just a Kinja comment thread. I’ve got no skin in the game. They’re doing public relations. Vastly different standards, like going to Walmart vs going to a good restaurant.

I don’t know the game, I don’t care about the game, I will never play the game, I don’t care if it’s Epic Store exclusive, I don’t know the devs, I do think they were completely right to go Epic Store exclusive given the terms.

They weren’t being defensive - they were simply replying to all the points that often get brought up

They went to ‘You can’t complain about this because it’s not as bad as climate change.’ The Hitler thing was a joke, but pretty much the same level of ridiculousness. If you’re going to resort to that then almost anything is excusable.

The first sections are fine, ‘We are an Epic exclusive because Epic promised us a lot of money’. Great, that’s hard to turn down, we understand.  ‘Now we and our families feel more secure.’ Well good.

Long term trend is all pain - just a brief respite.