Live in the Mid-West. We get a half-foot of snow, then it’s 50 degrees two days later. Then we get a half-foot of snow the next day. The snow comes, and comes thick, but the bitch/cock-ass weather changes so goddamn quick nothing remains for long.

I’ve wondered this for a while—should I just keep all-season tires on…

...because if console makers dedicate themselves to supporting old software, generation after generation, then the whole mindset that your whole library will get de-licensed in a few years will go away entirely.

That does nothing for the (quite literally) thousands of PSN, XBLA, XBLIG, and digital versions of retail games, nor DLC, expansions, or patches. Keeping “physical copies” isn’t possible when so many games, and so much content for “physical” games, never existed in a physical form to keep in the first place.

As for the…

Your “point” doesn’t apply. Consoles will eventually fail, and because of DRM, content owners will be locked out of purchased DLC and games unless they re-license. Live and PSN won’t be accessible forever, and Nintendo’s system is already tenuous. It’s a stopgap, not a solution.

I also don’t remember my SNES games requiring always-online access to DRM servers to run the old software, and that software being tied to the hardware IDs in my consoles. And the absolute nightmare of trying to re-certify my SNES digital purchases on a replacement console after Nintendo cut off the SNES access from…

One of the reasons Blizzard got away with what it got away with during Diablo III’s problems was that Blizzard will be supporting that game for many, many years—there will not be a Diablo IV in two years, or five, maybe ten. So people allow them a bit of leeway, time to fix issues and problems. It’s taken Destiny half…

EAT AN EWOK’S BUTTHOLE, BURNEKO.

This deserves many, many more stars.

I don’t get why anyone in the US has any right to get offended at this. Even if it seems like it’s based in America, it’s our own damned fault. We have more people in prison per capita than any other nation on Earth—so yeah, when the planet thinks “prison”, it thinks America.

Exactly the same here. If I have the option, I make my character look like something far different from myself—and I usually wind up with a dark-skinned female. I just get tired of seeing “dudes what look like me” waltzing about everywhere in games. I’ve seen enough broad, burly white protagonists to last a lifetime.

AoS was specifically designed to be intermingling with the movie-verse—the films affect it, and it affects the films—it was always planned at every point along development to be a part of the larger MCU. It was never, ever, at any point, “meant to be mutually exclusive” from the MCU. Whedon was very clear in every…

What’s disturbing is how many people posting crap like this are adults.

Playing Defense Grid 2 right now. Shadowrun I missed out on, but was successful.

Pictured: Totally not another type of completely unnecessary, adds-nothing-to-the-experience DRM. Totally.

Then change it to “and”. You don’t need to “agree” with me on this point: 98% of mobile phone game players never spend a dime. Now, again, the 2% that do spend, tend to stay—they have invested time and money into a game, they’re probably gamers.

The difference is, as I said before, the sheer percentage of users who are willing to invest time, money, and energy into the hobby when contrasting the two markets.

Yeah. We call them “whales”: A handful of people who either have a shit tonne of money or who have addiction problems. And yes, a small number of “whales” are just heavily invested gamers. But they do not reflect the average, or even a minority, of mobile game players—they’re a vanishingly small fraction of the…

This block right here is gold. Damn, you lucked out, man.

what does make one a gamer?

I’d like to agree with you on every point, as well as add that it’s the sales environment as well.