Some people will say “but the enormous budgets games today have”.

Like what stories are you talking about?  I remember a handful of bad games like Back to the Future where the bugs were truly game breaking, and they usually weren’t big titles.  Any game I actually bought was a working release.  Are you talking more from the Atari era where there were so many bad releases?

Real lawyers in Japan are too busy teaching dance choreography to high school girls and moonlighting as bike gang member to actually take on cases, which is why the paralegals do all the work instead. 

The thing that everyone never factor into the equation, is that while, yes, games are costing more to make (duh), your average AAA game these days has a potential pool of buyers that is just insanely bigger than what it was in the NES and SNES days.

Or we could have prevented that by fixing the actual problem: copyright law.

Nintendo is a piece of shit company.

So the DMCA is a failed attempt to fix a broken copyright system.

holding our culture and society hostage for profit

You’re right, it is a different situation.

I dont give a shit about the law. We should know better than to let financially large parties abuse their wealth and power to silence information they dont want people to know.... this is basic social good type stuff.

It is a fascinating aspect to Japanese culture and law.

Intellectual Property—because fair use, as a concept, doesn’t really exist in Japan.

The main problem is that games are now $70 AND buggy as hell on launch.  Why should people pay that much for a game that doesn’t work, when they can wait a couple of months and get it cheaper and in better working order?

I mean... maybe, but they shouldn’t have to.

Speaking as an attorney that works with Japanese companies a lot, there are 2 areas of law where Amerian and Japanese law differ A LOT.

DMCA has its benefits but man does it get abused to hell and back. There needs to be more checks on companies like this that issue strikes in clear violation of fair use policies.

Pratt himself said he workshopped the voice for an extended period of time and that people would be really happy with it. And then it turns out it’s just his normal voice

I wish new games were only $70. Destiny 2's next expansion (which basically amounts to a demo version of the game, you still have to pay for 4 season passes) is $50.

I’ve managed game and other software development teams for more years than I care to remember, and the one common denominator they all shared is a near total disregard for conventional fashion.

This was a weird one..So we shouldn’t shame people for their bodies, gender identities, etc. We should be more open minded and accepting...except for people who just want to wear a t-shirt and jeans, f*ck them! Seriously, there are more valid reasons to criticise rich people for.