My view on mobile games is the same. I don’t see them as a separate case, just one that has long been easy to disregard because it wasn’t about “our games” in the more traditional gaming community. It’s unfortunate that the shit infecting mobile games has crossed over into more conventional ones.

Even if gamers like us who are informed put our foot down it won’t be a big enough affect.

Meh, the whole ownership of something tangible is going out the window as everything becomes digitized. How much money do people dump into MMO’s and have something to show? How about a Spotify subscription, but you don’t own a single song. I look at them more like paying for a movie at the theater. You are paying for…

Reviews should not act as a protective gate-keeper for the publisher.

The ESRB, like the MPAA and RIAA, is an industry organization, and was by definition “bought” from the very beginning. The only reason they start these organizations to begin with is because they fear that, if they don’t, the government will regulate them directly. Better to “regulate” themselves is how the reasoning…

One of two things is going to happen and you aren’t going to like either.

... less overhead in producing physical games due to digital downloads, and added sales by making digital games waaay too accessible and easy to buy. 

As long as they don’t hide the story content behind them they can sit on their thumbs and spin around all they want.

It’s absurd that people are so blind to the road these systems will undoubtedly lead us. As a life-time gamer it really bothers me that the future of gaming is looking as bleak as it is.

Yeah, I think it comes down to a value proposition, honestly. I’ve bought loot boxes in Overwatch, but then again, I only paid $30 for it during a Black Friday sale a while back, and always felt like I was getting a lot more value out of the game than what I’d spent up-front for it.

I fully agree with the points you made, and would love to see cash shop reviews become a thing. Not just “a costs x, b costs y” etc but actually finding a way to compare the value of items to each other,as well as to the cost of entry to the game.

I can get behind microtransactions or loot boxes if they are not tied into or obstruct normal progression.

It really depends of what value we are talking about doesn’t it? For me games-as-service lessen the value of games.

The difference between loot boxes and CCGs is that you typically didn’t pay a $60 entry fee (or any entry fee at all) to gain the privilege to buy packs of cards. Oh, and buying cards is understood up-front as a requirement of the CCG format, whereas loot box systems often get dropped into games in ways that aren’t…

“Yeah Ight.”

He didn’t mispronounce it, though. That’s how it’s pronounced.

Marasai: “I am a moron who thinks that individual views of writers at a publication represent the monolithic view of the publication itself.”

So your opinions align with the findings. Good to know, eh?

It’s not my argument that comments are inherently bad. My argument is that, when comment features are tossed alongside content seemingly without any consideration as to why said comments are being solicited, because it’s just “what one does” when creating a modern website, the odds of those comments being of value to…

The old magazine world was dominated by elitists, as is given when only a select few hold the power of the pulpit, but damn was it a lot more reasonable and substantive in its criticism than when absolutely everyone has a say.