Yup!

The live service model just... Kind of sucks. Eventually, you are going to run out of quality updates to make and the shtick is going to get old. Destiny 2 started to feel too much like homework for me after Foresaken.

Plus, there was just too many plot threads that don’t go anywhere. Dozens of mystery boxes without…

Honestly? Too little too late.

Credit where it’s due, they effectively shelved most of this “mechanic” earlier this year. If you were at the top equipment power level in March (with Season of Defiance, which dropped concurrently with Lightfall), you were still at that same max equipment level when Season of the Deep and Season of the Witch rolled…

A big part of why the soft reboot worked for God of War is because they were able to shift to a new set of gods and mythological creatures and they were willing to give a huge shift in tone in Kratos’ character from the “hyper-angry, off camera sex scene minigame” version that preteens loved in the 00's to a more…

They are probably also banking on the fact a blanket federal level set of laws would actually be far less restrictive to their operations than state level where consumer advocacy states would mandate extremely strict guidelines. So it is not like they’re on the side of right to repair. They’re just picking the lesser…

This is a cynical preventative PR move, not an advocacy of consumer rights.

I know my comment history is largely trolling here, but this is an article that gets to me.

Exactly my thoughts, they had to figure out how to make money on it first and now they support Right to Repair.

Because they figured out how to make a ‘third-party repair’ program that’s as profitable as having the customer bring it in for repairs?

I’d argue it’s somewhere between “Poochie died on the way back to his home planet” and “The mute sniper lady has to be half-naked because she would suffocate otherwise!”

You can generally save $100 over time by buying games physically (including used) as long as you don’t intend on buying every single game as soon as it comes out. You can definitely save $50 that way.

While playing, when I realized that there was never any answer to “where did all the Sheikah BS go”, outside of a few bits here & there either left behind or repurposed into the new towers, I was disappointed.

Read all the books and cite all the economic “rules” you want, nobody cares what a thing “should have” cost if it had been adjusted for inflation all along. It wasn’t, and we just care what it cost now compared to a year ago.

The “reality” is all economic “rules” are completely made up and selectively “enforced.”

Now,…

Not to mention, the towers in TotK clearly use the guardian arms in their design.

This contrived shit wouldn’t have happened if TotK did end up becoming a very big DLC to BotW initially. The worldbuilding with the Zonai and their tech and it being the center of the world and its new architecture is still...pretty weak. It could of worked, but “people fascinated with the new tech” doesn’t really…

My god, that’s lazy. And I mean “Poochie died on the way to his home planet” lazy. I personally didn’t love the tech-y parts of BotW so whatever, but if you’re going to have such a weak answer, maybe just don’t give an answer at all.

I mean, fine I guess? It isn’t something that bothered me. But the explanation kinda screams “cop out excuse” lol.

ngl, Sheikah tech has always been some of the weakest and most contrived parts of BotW/TotK lore.

I dunno, what about making the game actually fun to play? Did they say anything about that?