Not at all? I think that's an exaggeration. I didn't think the battle system was perfect—having to go through the menus was not ideal for certain things, especially defending—but I thought it was just fine for the most part, and certainly about as good as you were going to get with that sort of hybridized system.

Relative to the amount of effort put into making Ni No Kuni, it was virtually ignored, despite 100% justified hype in the running up to and right after its release. Because it came out very early in 2013, it was also pretty much forgotten when it came time to talk about Game Of The Year. Everybody opted for more…

When you act in a TV series, the per-episode salary isn't the end of the gravy train. With a series as successful as Breaking Bad, he's going to be living off worldwide syndication residuals for the rest of his life.

Aside from being the inspiration for a train station in a video game, the real-life building doesn't really seem historically important (though, if it is, I'd certainly listen to explanations as to why). Judging from the pictures, it has almost certainly been upgraded and retrofitted over the years, so it's not like…

Okay, so now an XB1 costs a PS4 + a PS3. Still a bad deal.

Actually, it applies if you're accepting gifts, payment, etc. in return for promotion, whether you're part of a larger company or not. You could be completely independent and not see what you're doing as a business, and if you're getting gifts or payment in order to promote something, the FTC requires that you…

Has anything happened to Mattingly that is the result of "people seeing red," though? I don't think so. McWilliams blurred his name and the worst of his comments when she made the story known. Mattingly apologized and willingly stepped down from his position in order to get help for his issues. In other words,…

I agree with your general point, and have made it in the past several times myself. I'm just not sure that this case is really a great example of it. A far better example would be that woman who acted like she was yelling and stuck up her middle finger next to the "Silence and Respect" sign at the Tomb of the Unknown…

they literally have no choice on whether to defend it or not because if they don't they can and will lose the trademark.

Who's dehumanizing him? From the outset, Mattingly's name was kept confidential by McWilliams, and she even went so far as to blur out the most disgusting comment she claimed he made at the end of the conversation. She is not trying to tear Mattingly down, nor do I think that Kotaku's reporting on the matter is…

Everything you're saying makes sense. I just think that your position errs a little too much on the side of working things so that they're therapeutic for the guy who did something wrong. If Mattingly can bounce back from this and rescue his credibility in the field of games journalism, that's great. But does he deserv…

I'm not sure anybody profits from speculation about what will or will not be the ultimate professional outcome for Mattingly. I do think, however, that there would be legitimate concerns about whether he can engage professionally with sources in the future, no? I mean, that's part of a journalist's job. I'm not saying…

This idea that he'll magically get better by being yelled at and isolated is wishful thinking, and isn't how social change actually happens.

I'm glad that we have "hooc" here to remind us that the following phrases constitute "hitting on" somebody:

That link doesn't prove your point. It says that policing is one aspect of maintaining a trademark, which I already knew and referred to in previous comments. What it doesn't say is that a trademark holder must litigate every possible case of infringement, even those it knows and publicly admits don't constitute…

That's nonsense and you know it. It's not like you get a trademark one day, and the next day if you've haven't filed several lawsuits claiming infringement, you abandon the trademark. Just like you have to go years without using the trademark in order for it to be abandoned (I think it's something like 3 years in most…

A trademark would never be abandoned because you let possible cases slip through. It would require a serial lack of enforcement, letting a trademark sit for years, perhaps decades, undefended from infringers. King.com faces no threat from simply letting Banner Saga through without opposition.

That's patently untrue. A company doesn't have to litigate or oppose every possible case of infringement in order to maintain its trademark. There are a number of factors that play into it. Policing is only one, and companies are only ultimately responsible for following up on legitimate cases of infringement.…

That's absolutely untrue. One need not defend a trademark in every possible case in order to sustain the trademark against future infringement. A company can explain why they didn't oppose certain uses (i.e. because they determined that the use didn't actually try to pass off a product or service as that described by…

I don't care if they're not trying to win. They're likely going to cost the Banner Saga developers money, and there will certainly be costs to the judicial system as well. "Failure to police" is only one way abandonment can occur. The primary way (a sustained period of non-use of the trademark) has nothing at all to…