As far as Take-Two is concerned, yes.  Rockstar obviously cared.

They screen them, like Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo do for second party games. They’re not just throwing money around randomly, they’re giving it to people who have already demonstrated they can make good games (Capy) and/or had good pitches for what they wanted to make (House House for Untitled Goose Game).

You don’t own anything from Apple App Store or Google Play (or Steam, or PSN, or Nintendo Store, etc), it can go away at any moment. That war is lost. Of course there’s a certainty here that if you stop paying the $5/mo you lose everything right now, but this is the model that apparently works for most people, so I…

The nice thing about Apple’s $5/mo model is that if enough people subscribe that is actually a substantial amount of money, which Apple can then turn around and plow into paying game companies to make more games with. They’ve been giving devs millions of dollars up front to make the games that are on there now.

GTAV made it clear that the real money was in milking the @#$% out of the online mode players. They can make 10x the money by putting the effort into RDRO, so that’s what they’re doing.

I’m saying that if a completely separate game stapled on the side of the real game is good enough for people to actually want to play it, then it should be its own game with separate resources. Which is what they’re doing.

Good. I really hope stapling a multiplayer mode on to a very, VERY singleplayer game as a marketing checkbox can become a thing of the past, even if it’s a pretty good mode like TLoU had. So many millions of dollars wasted on defunct and mediocre checkbox multiplayer modes in AAA games. Don’t waste the singleplayer…

Not at all.  You may miss some references, but the opening of 2 covers everything you need to know.

This is a very safe sequel, so if you liked the first you’ll like this one (I did, so I’m happy).

You will still grieve, but you can grieve with a new cat. I’m not saying you need to go out tomorrow and adopt, but I’ve know people who have gone three years because they still felt guilty about ‘betraying’ the old pet when a new one would have done them a world of good - especially when they’re without a family,…

Awww, poor Quimby. But I’m glad you saved her from ending in agony, surrounded by family instead. I cried more when my cat of 13 years died than I have for any person (my father’s hit me harder overall, but he wouldn’t have wanted me to so I didn’t - much).

My review: HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK

That iOS13 now supports PS4 and XB1 controllers, so you can use a great controller without spending another $40 on a decent generic bluetooth one, makes a huge difference (I did not know about this yesterday).

Thought he was Randy Pitchford?

With the lineup, if you have an iOS device it’d be pretty silly not to plunk down a measly $5 for at least a month - and there are so many good games on AA it will surely take you more than 1 month to play them all.

I would certainly rather eat Football Manager’s box than play NFL2K20

Valve’s repeated promises to ‘improve overall discoverability’ with each change are always a lie, and always have to be. It’s a zero sum game. If I go to the store and check out the 10 games they’ve picked for me, that’s 10 slots, period.

That does sound better, maybe I’ll try a demo.

That does sound better, maybe I’ll try a demo.

I didn’t even think of that while posting it, but this brave new tech world is pretty ridiculous, eh?