Because they're not just avoidable, they're inconsequential and uninteresting. I have like 70 hours played, and I have money to burn on stuff, and I haven't even been remotely tempted to touch that little button in the menu for the microtransaction (you can only buy one specific thing).

I give it like 2 years before people are back to IRC.

There was a scene in Season 3 where Melisandre takes Gendry from the Brotherhood. It wasn't in the books.

If you're the third most populous city but still the capital of fly-over country, nobody cares.

Just make sure nobody finds out that America The Beautiful was written by a lesbian.

You should know there is no justice in the world and that Zimmerman is going to crush DMX and we're all going to be left feeling empty.

Please, those are like... baby noses. Semi-noses. Hardly noses at all...

Final Fantasy Tactics would like to have a word with you.

I am not trying to be snarky at all, I am honestly curious: what have you seen about FFXV that leads you to make those statements about it being the best game in the series, better than all the others?

Thought this was going to be about Icefrog...

Yeah, diversity aside, I feel like Reid brings too little to the desk when she is in discussions, but maybe she'll grow into the role.

Because giving a work a creator imposes a limit on that work. A creator doesn't own the expression, and that sort of totalitarian interpretation, or appeal to the author/artist/director's intent, shouldn't be held as anything more than a possible understanding of the work, and certainly not held paramount. In…

No, it really isn't. The creator's intent is one of the first things you should be willing to abandon.

You sure place a lot of importance on the intent of the creator for someone who thinks he talks a lot about art and creative endeavors.

Forget Square Enix, we still have that Breath of Fire mobile game to look forward to!

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I don't know, really. I mostly focus on DotA, since that's what I really play. Sorry!

I've been playing DotA for six years, so that helps! I'm terrible at Starcraft though.

MVP is an organization. They have SC2 players, a LoL team and a DotA 2 team as well.

I didn't play any of these games (I'm most familiar with Vanguard), but I'm still sad to see them go. I know that on even the smallest MMOs, there are communities and people who made friends and memories in these games, no matter how bad, or unbalanced or unstable they were, so every MMO that shuts down is a part of…