I mean, the difference is in your comment: “freemium.” If I pay 60-70 bucks for a game and have to watch ads between rounds/games/quarters/periods/matches/whatever, then they can definitely fuck right off.

If the games end up being free-to-play, then it’s not really an issue, however annoying it is.

this, a million gillion billion googillion times over.

1oo%. Almost every person I’ve talked to who screamed about videogame journalists being biased shills has done so because the journalist didn’t support their personal brand of vg bias enough.

The ironic thing I’ve found is that those game fans who are the most vociferously suspicious of print journalists being paid by games publishers to bias coverage, is that these people take most of their cues from gaming youtubers who literally are paid by games publishers to bias coverage.

Honestly is still embarrassing to try and compare the two services, Game Pass is just head and shoulders above and beyond anything right now. 

I’m guessing it’s the blooming onion an the shrimp deals. 

Man, Checkers doesn’t deserve to be 51. Checkers is pretty good and their fries alone deserve to be in the Top 30.

These dicks ain’t gunna measure themselves!

This is, like, the 100th article about Video Game this week. Your fanboyism is showing. How about some positive coverage of This Video Game or That Video Game for once?

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Gif used to express feeling that took longer to find than typing my thoughts... thoughtfully. 

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