Did the dev announce 16% raises to match the inflation they’re talking about? Or are they just grasping for cash?

Explain how this works in your mind. Because that is not how anything works.

It may increase sales a bit before the price increase. It will either maintain current sales patterns or decrease them after the change. Whereas, if they decreased the price, there would be a very noticeable increase in sales. They may be very bad at basic sales math.

Gonna need to go see a few more exotic concerts on the company’s dime to get over this hurt feeling. Oooo ouch.

Middle Earth: Shadow of War completely removed its microtransactions after heavy criticisms and specifically cited customer feedback as the reason for doing so. Now figure out how to use Google for the others, I believe that you will be able to manage.

The article literally says it was confirmed as real... but why read it first, I guess?

They’ve showed it as being 4 player since the first announcement. Have you ignored every piece of marketing they’ve ever done?

Avengers made leveling take MUCH longer in a patch, then introduced boosters. I’m sure these were ~unrelated~.

Complaining about monetization has stalled out or reversed plans MANY times, I’m not sure how you’ve missed every occasion of this. Unless you’re just talking in bad faith.

To make the comparison between the game and the show fair, you should have arbitrarily stopped the show after 12 minutes and then thrown a fit on your social media about it. Articles like this do no one any favors. It is totally fine to give up on something immediately, for arbitrary reasons. It is laughably stupid to…

What state government do they owe this game to?

Have like 20 swords in the game total, not 2000.

I guess we’re talking about different things. For me, the DLC are more nails in the coffin for “released too many things, too quickly.”

With the size of the massive DLCs they do nowadays, I don’t think is actually an accurate impression at all. The DLCs for the RPG games are comparable in size to some of the earlier games in the series...

This is not a good understanding of Far Cry at all. Starting from 2, open world was very much its identity. The team behind the first game left to go make Crysis. So it would be more accurate to say Far Cry => Crysis is one series of spiritual successors and Far Cry 2 on is a completely different series.

Instead of playing devil’s advocate, go read the investigative reporting on the game’s development, and understand why everyone is EXTREMELY skeptical it will be anything but an immediate flop.

The deal is, they are deleting this from the servers next month, and flinging all physical copies into the ocean.

You seem... foolish? So if you worked on a 3 year development game for two years, then left at the beginning of the third year, you would be out of the credits, whereas if you were hired for the last 9 months, you would get full credit.

Here’s an actual tip: If you care about achievements, pay your tab at Applebees or you will REGRET it.

Killing Wolfwood and Vash’s backstory are in the original manga, yes.