You shouldnt spay and neuter your pets. That’s overkill. Just neuter them. 

“Still, it’s interesting to see Anthony reject the labels (and, presumably, some very lucrative offers and opportunities that accompany them), refusing to be a poster child for that particular set of beliefs.”

Corporate crimes are notoriously hard to investigate and prosecute and the defense has a highly paid team of good lawyers at their disposal.

Do most of them today?

Not sure what your thesis is here. I’m pretty sure the makers of comedies always tried to attract interest in advance, and pretty sure successes still require people to like the films and tell others.

i imagine it’s a good way to get up close and sweaty with their fellow classmates. they’re teenagers, they’re supposed to be stupid. makes sense the plan wouldn’t be entirely baked.

I’m actually quite sad we’ll never get another Immortals game. It is the distillation of my perfect game design philosophy from AAA sources. Take a grab bag of tricks that work in other games, put it in yours with your own tweaks, and polish it up as best you can. AAA studios should just be constantly doing big…

They cancelled the sequel to a game that had mediocre sales for the sequel to a game that had very good sales.

Cena was also WWE’s ambassador to China to the point he even learned the language, so he was in a doubly precarious position.

To be fair, based on a glance at his comment history, he strikes me as more of a: ‘left-winger who’s shunned US imperialism so hard they’ve steered straight into Kremlin propaganda’ type.

You’re a piece of shit my dude

Exactly this. Games are not aluminum siding, they’re works of art (even AAA ones). If a game doesn’t satisfy you, you didn’t like it for any reason, or you didn’t read the reviews and weren’t aware of its shortcomings, you don’t get to make a warranty claim.

Yes, $70 is no small amount, but the amount you get for that $70 is absolutely insane. Forget Baldur’s Gate 3, even in the case of a buggy game with a “mere” 20 hours of content, $70 represents one of the best values for money in the entire history of value or money.

Let the game breathe for a week or two and then take the temperature of the early adopters.

That would be more of a pain than you think for the average person, since you can’t do it natively on the Xbox, and besides, why would a VPN matter?  They banned the account, there’s no mention of banning the IP, so creating a new one would still be possible without any extra effort.  They’d still lose access to all…

Back then, a long development period was 2 years. Nowadays, a long development period is 6 years and it will probably get longer. Shareholders ran companies ARE the enemy of quality but I don’t think there would be many AAA games with 6 year long development period either way.

Another important variable is that, historically, that $70 is extremely low for what a lot of “average gamers” expect from a game. A top-tier RPG in 1995 cost $80, which is about $160 in 2023 dollars.

Yeah but if you are a consumer for who 70 dollars is a lot of money, and you buy a game blind buying into the hype completely, you kinda deserve to get burned. Do the bare minimum of research, check metacritic and you’ll see in an instant if its a micro-transaction infested buggy mess or not. It takes no more than 5…

Counterpoint - slightly - there are more resources available to learn about games ahead of purchase than perhaps any other products on the market. That isn’t to say we can’t criticize or get annoyed when those games turn out to be bad (or even just not what we expect), but they have ample opportunity to conduct one…

Damn it, why hasn’t Meet the Feebles gotten a Criterion release, or at least Arrow/Synapse?