I mean, yeah, the payment system is the problem. Android makes you go through all kinds of hoops when you sideload apps or alternate storefronts, making it sound terribly dangerous to less-savvy users, so apps not on the Play Store are going to have way less exposure. The (theoretical) issue is that Google is using…

I mean, they know full well that they broke the TOS; their whole goal is to upend the TOS so that there isn’t anything to take responsibility for.

It’s not just TCG, though, it’s the VGC and Pokken tournaments, too. That’s more what I’m wondering about.

I wonder why they aren’t doing digital tournaments at all.

take the star, take it and run

Stadia is a standalone platform with its own technical requirements, and games need to be ported for it; Google isn’t just streaming PC games from Windows server blades or what have you.

It sounds like they might eventually pivot to powering cloud offerings of individual publishers/developers, rather than having a standalone platform, but for the time being their business model needs third parties, so I imagine this will have some effect on Google.

wait do we know who the new EIC is yet?

😭😭

It rhymes with “Link” (There’s actually an invisible z in there, confusing I know)

That sounds so cool!

It’s so interesting that this type of crime warrants a press conference.

I mean

I suggest a bias only because the trend is rather odd. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many critics mention multiple flaws or problems with a major studio’s animation, but then entirely excuse those problems because it’s a new style/medium/etc. for them.

I mean, it’s fine if that’s how the various reviews read to you, but that’s not how they sound to me.

Some of the best writing, voice acting, and direction in the genre, IMO. A masterful translation and a thrilling story. Most cutscenes are voiced.

I agree that there are some good things! I’d love to see a more fully realized version of this style—though part of me wonders if part of the problem was how they tried to translate Ghibli’s 2D style into 3D more or less directly.

If this was a smaller studio with a less storied history, I might agree. But I have higher expectations than that from Studio Ghibli.

I didn’t mean there’s no room for disagreement; it’s totally fine if people like how it looks. It’s just odd to me that so many reviews are saying things along the lines of, “it’s a good first effort.” The connotation is obviously that the critic thinks it doesn’t look great but that Ghibli should be excused, and I…

Everyone’s saying the animation is “a good first try,” but would we say that about any other studio? I feel like there’s a lot of Ghibli bias making people way more forgiving than they should be. First attempt at CGI or not, this does not look good.