Pretty simple, really.

“While the video shows the officer stayed calm and respectful throughout the brief encounter,”

I think the point was to vote “for what?”

Yeah. The most reasonable corporate interpretation of the situation is that they didn’t think the deluge of refund requests Sony got would be bad enough to change their policy in a major way. And then Sony called their bluff. 

100%

Man, they straight up conned people.

Based on their last couple games? No.

I’m more saying anthem sucked because Bioware was involved. 

After anthem, literally the only thing that will make me halfway interested in a Bioware game is EA being in control.

This would be my recommendation regarding da:I.

What do you want, a Mario party mini game? 

And the ship has been sinking for a while.

This. EA had every reason to nuke them into nuke them into particles after the anthem/andromeda one two punch.

It’s a kids jrpg because the writing, designs, and rating are all aimed at people under the age of 16. And that’s after the more aged designs of Xenoblade 1, so you know “make em look more like Pokémon” was a deliberate design choice.

“see the overwhelmingly negative response from the press to Xenoblade 2's character designs, for instance).”

I mean, he can kick rocks whenever, I’d expect. I assume it’s a “you do this or you can’t play” sort of thing, not a “You do this and you go to jail sort of thing”

Yeah, that's what I mean. Definitely not the William Sherman treatment. That would be _wrong_. 

“If that is how you feel, just keep it in your heart...You don’t have to go on a public row and display that.”

Pity about that whole "we need to eat" thing. But yeah. Whenever I hear about this stuff I start thinking it should absolutely impact the release. 

This. You put up a confederate flag and some antebellum glorification shit in there, I can say I won’t be playing and have no issues stating why.