He’s a Birther.

Who cares?

They might if someone answered them. They are sarcastic, but they aren’t rhetorical.

Why is this a clear case of abuse? All she did was give the boy a whuppin.

Which is of course the only reason any American would ever have to express offense.  Right.

Seeing as how voting Trump requires ignoring how most aspects of American policies and changes impact each other, probably not.

Companies don’t worry about their fanbases much because if you make a good thing, you’ll usually get a new one.

When I was younger, I would absolutely pay more for an earlier release if I could. So there’s your demand: Gamers who want to play the hyped game as quickly as possible.

I think healthy cynicism is fine to a point, but I think what you’re talking about is why it’s important to not let that go too far: You’re suggesting that treating a product demo like a product demo is buying into PR marketing, but you’re forgetting that that doesn’t help the company.

Anthem isn’t having any sort of open beta per Ben Irving.

When you want a product to do well, you don’t give it a beta test and call it a demo. A demo is marketing. It’s selling the thing. Calling it a “test” of any kind sets expectations differently.

Sure, but having servers fail to perform isn’t an indication that they were intended to be used in a testing capacity.

I expect the same level of reckless instability I saw with MHW for a while. I also expect them to get things figured out, and that the demos will help (while scaring off some users).

Bioware’s response heavily implies that they weren’t testing the servers:

Oh, well that changes everything.

Do we deserve all the ways his family clearly fucked up?

I feel like you’re assuming that this privately educated conservative white kid would ever receive negative consequences for this. I’m sure there is plenty of discipline in his life, just none of it involving presenting harassing brown skinned people as a bad thing.

Who knew that "my bad" was a difficult concept?

Not really. That’s simply a competition some other storefront has already lost.

At the moment, allowing the to decide how much of their money goes to the developer of their games - 70% or 88%. I like that option, and it will encourage me to buy from Epic when supporting developers is a priority (indies, for instance).