Well yeah, I heard those were both pretty awful, but I don’t think anybody should be really be holding some semi-obscure sequel novels from the 90s and a mega-marketed video game prequel to the original trilogy to the same standards - both for in-universe and out-of-universe implications.

Nice to see the warm-to-glowing reception for this game.

Well I was reading Kotaku for a distraction, needed something to take my mind off my wracked nerves due to the fact that in 27 hours and 13 minutes I’m taking my girlfriend/wife-to-be to Mt Sinai Hospital maternity ward to begin an induced labor for our son - first child for both of us.

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Good points. Sober, cogent, less cynical than mine.

Activision pisses their pants when some Hearthstone player that 99% of us have never heard of offends China over Hong Kong, yet doesn’t hesitate to make Russia the evil villain in their biggest game of the year.

This game just sucks.

Juding by the number of “lone ghosts” in the game’s social space now vs. the number that were in it during the beta, yeah.

I edited the post - I’m not a regular Twitch viewer and am confused about the whole monetization and follow/subscribe model for how streamers get paid. Is it true that these subscribers are actually paying for access?

What I don’t get is why followers are unsubscribing in such significant numbers in response to an absence. It’s less effort to just leave your sub list idle and watch someone else if your favorite streamer isn’t active.

Maybe I should have disclosed this, but I’m not a PC gamer and view “video gaming” almost strictly through the lens of consoles - not that I never play legacy RTSs or sims from time to time on my laptop, but I would never see myself playing a traditional AAA multi-platform release on anything other than my Xbox One X o…

The games that you can get on PS4 that you can’t get on Xbox One are better (though not light years better) and more numerous than vice versa.

My point overall is that PRC looks at this as a binary situation - not firing that Hearthstone player for his statement would have been tantamount to Bobby Kotick tweeting #FreeHongKong.

Actually as I write this I’m watching this YouTuber who read off tweets from the Epic CEO saying he did more or less say that (in response to a question) so apparently you’re correct that they’re not afraid of Tencent

Interesting... But did Epic say “We support Hong Kong democracy” outright?

Good point, but you missed an important additional detail: Tencent, a Chinese mega-corporation (and as such basically an arm of the PRC government) owns 10% of Activision Blizzard - So it’s not just the mainland Chinese market they’re afraid of losing, their stock price would crater too if Tencent dumped their share.

I’m not a gear hound, I found the buffs and guns that work best for my long and mid-quarters combat style to get me to 500 GS months ago and have stuck with them ever since - same happened in the first Division once I found a loadout I liked. The state of guns and gear seem to drive the vast majority of conversations…

I meant here as in what’s listed in the article - I got the Expeditions expansion (locked off for some reason currently, only has one location), but nothing on the scale of Underground or Survival in the first game, both of which I believe had been added by this point 3 years ago.

Great take, though I have to caution you to remember that Destiny 2 has had two years of ups and downs - not to mention a complete change in business model - to find its footing. From what’s been chronicled on this site (haven’t played since the first Destiny, dropped it in favor of the first Division), I understand…

What’s unclear to me is what it is here I actually spent an extra $40 on to get the Year One pass besides those Classified Assignments (which I found the previous ones to be kind of boring). Everything else you mention here appears to be just timed content.