amounting to upward of a $408.5 million windfall at the $95 a share on offer by Microsoft

Agreed. Too many people buy the game on Playstation and spend money on battle passes and crap to give that up, they won’t want to risk a cash cow to try to move some more consoles...IMHO, MS is much more concerned with selling Game Pass subscriptions than trying to win a console war.

Of course, diplomacy is and should always be our go to solution and we need to return to rebuilding our softpower. As Mattis said when he was secretary of defense “If you don’t fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition ultimately.” Its erosion is a serious long-term risk to us.

“What do you mean you don’t carry lye? Every project my ass.”

gamers are such fucking babies.

Log off.  Touch grass.  Jesus fucking Christ man.

They deserve justified anger and frustration, sure, but once it spreads over to pure hate it’s gone too far.

Please tell me a grown ass adult did not make this comment...

Man, you are a little worm for that viewpoint. Grow the hell up.

it’s a video game you play with friends to have fun. I recommend going outside.

Thank you for proving the author’s point in 3 short sentences.

This is Internet User DrSteveBrule saying they endorse the use of death threats as an appropriate response if you buy a game before waiting for coverage to appear.

No. They don't deserve death threats 

“little worm”

“deserve whatever vitriol that comes their way”

This is exactly the kind of toxicity that people are talking about. The lack of self-awareness is astounding.

The game absolutely has problems and their decision to call things “legacy features” is confounding, but to say that they deserve what they get from…

This guy gets it.

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Is this the same CCP that used an ASW creating a massive cloud of space debris? The same CCP that routinely crashes boosters into villages? The same CCP that does not itself publish/announce its own space activities?

Yeah but airtags use the MASSIVE iphone network and are cheap. There is a vast difference between the implementations.

Sigh. Literally every single point you have made is wrong because you fundamentally don’t understand how any of this works. Let’s go through them.