Of course you’re right that video game publishers do some shady things, be it stuffing their games with microtransactions, showing off generous E3 demos when they know the game won’t look even close to as good, or — worst of all — exploiting labor practices to get unpaid overtime out of all of their workers.

You bring up an exceedingly good point; as much as we need less PR-speak, we also need game developers/producers/companies to realize they can’t promise us the Sky when development happens, because if you don’t deliver on those promises then No Man will probably end up happy with your final product.

Stop feeding the troll comments. The lack of moderation in many game communities leads to forums and social media being dominated by trolls.

I see you’re running for Congress there Jason with that answer.

“You could make that argument that a lot of these issues were caused by the secrecy.”

...Um, what secrecy? Developers were never particularly secretive. I think a big problem here, is that people are confusing developers... with publishers. The major publishers (EA, Activision and Ubisoft) have always been shady. The…

Yes. But I’m also proud of how much we’ve evolved over the years.

MsLangdonAlger is a troll account someone set up to steal the handle of a well known and well liked AV Club commentor who didn’t follow the site over to kinja. All their posts are lazy, bottom rung parody of progressive feminism.

The amount of times I have to explain to members that the people responsible for content are not the same people who fix network issues...

“Why do they keep adding more cars, they need to fix the performance issues”

It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.

ehhh, idk we have seen people lose their jobs and get harassed even in their homes over this sort of thing. you forget how crazy some people are sometimes. piss off the wrong loser and suddenly lots of personal info goes public and you have lots of death threats in your mailbox aimed at you and your family. it…

My personal favorite of those is the art guy showing drawing a new concept art for the game and showing it off when he could be <insert development activity here> instead. Because the art guy is totally whats holding up resolving an engine level issue thats being worked on by an entirely different team.

There will never be a profession, hobby, activity, or other human endeavor that some armchair expert on the Internet will not claim greater knowledge of than the folks who do it for a living.

That doesn’t excuse the toxic behavior, though. I do not work in development, so I don’t really have a solid handle on just how…

Step one: Stop letting marketing people or “idea guys” like Molyneux talk about videogames at conventions and stop making access TO the places where developers talk about videogames so inaccessible to a majority of folks. If we treated “Gaming Convetions” the same way we treated anime conventions, for example, then…

Game developers: have you ever felt like you couldn’t be candid because of toxic culture?

See, this is the difference between just translation and a localization. That joke would have gone over everyone’s heads. Even otaku, since most anime fans aren’t Japanese sports team fans. Anime jokes? Sure, keep ‘em in. But reaching out of ones demo? Find a local equivalent. The spirit of the joke is still 100%…

You know, we all keep going on about how Trump’s an idiot for going to war with the NFL, but....

If our Country, Flag and National Anthem were worth the respect people keep crowing for, they should be able to stand up to a little criticism.

25% I can ID. The rest is a mystery to me. We need identifiers.

I dunno about universally better. It’s definitely better for typing on smartphones, but the constant fingerprints all over my screen make me wish we’d found a better way. It’s definitely inferior for gaming.

i GUESS YOU COULD SAY