So, a question, then: if your fundamental stance is that ‘loot boxes are gambling’ (which I agree with) and furthermore that gambling is predatory behavior, do you think all gambling should be illegal? Do you find the very existence of casinos a kind of moral failure on behalf of their owners and the various…

You didn’t even answer the question. Nobody asked if worker or consumer rights are moral issues, and you used that as an opener to talk about a bunch of other points that were still irrelevant to the question asked.

If you see mechanics like this as gambling and a moral issue, then shouldn’t other games with these mechanics be addressed as well? Take Hearthstone, people can buy cards in that game to have an advantage, and there is definitely the possibility of players spending lots of money in order to acquire more dust. If you…

Standard leftist nonsense.... we get it- capitalism is terrible and it’s up to Big Brother to protect idiots from themselves. Got it.

Yeah, informed decisions about your purchases and the effects of your purchases is also “how capitalism works”. Informing people that a company working to subconsciously manipulate you is part of how capitalism works. Realizing this manipulation and avoiding it is also “how capitalism works” making uninformed…

Heather, nothing you wrote there answered the guys question : “The developer made the decision that they will make more money from those micro transactions than they will lose from people who are turned off from future purchases. That’s the same calculus that goes into any consumer product” 

Even if the game won’t sell, they’ll blame it on something else.

The problem is that they will be forced to release a broken game and be shut down before “eventually” comes around.

Alternate headline: Publishing Executive With Fresh Blood Dripping From Hands Sure to Announce Good News, Thinks Studio Employee

My condolences to the Respawn employees and their families.

RIP Respawn. Killed by EA waaaay before they bought you. Can’t wait for Titanfall 3 on Frostbyte to be released the same day as Destiny 3 or some shit.

These same people must just looove Verhoven’s Starship Troopers, and NPH’s snazzy uniform, while again, not getting that it’s almost entirely satire.

i played it on the default difficulty for about half the game and hit a point where i kept dying so i dropped it down a notch to finish out the game and had about that playtime. I also ignored a lot of the side stuff for the first half of the game so i still have that to go back to.

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is, without a doubt, one of the best games of the year in a year packed to the goddamn gills with fucking phenomenal games.

It’s brilliantly written, masterfully performed, and it has some of the best pure pulp characters in all of the medium....and while it’s been critically acclaimed,…

Well given how fucked the world and the implications of “Ramona’s” diary in the first game her relationship with B.J is probably the most normal thing about her.

this was one of so many fantastic scenes in this game. It may be my favorite game i played this year. So much personality combined with some excellent shooting and beautiful art. It’s relatively short depending on the difficulty you play it on but i enjoyed almost every minute of it minus the gritty opening hours that…

I’m going to butcher the line (and I don’t want to spoil too much for folks who haven’t played yet), so I’ll keep my favorite bit to this:

“I will think of your body when I pleasure myself from time to time—and there is nothing you can do about it!”

Eh. I have a bit of a deep, abiding dislike of Anya (I still view her as a creeper who abused her patient when BJ was in the sanitorium in TNO), so I wouldn’t be that put out by her plans being wrecked.

That said, the scene itself was absolutely fantastic. That moment with the pig? Pure fucking gold, especially if you…

I was pleasantly surprised by the whole thing, to be honest.

So many shows, films, and games present their heroes as either completely straight-laced, morally upright modern-day knights in shining armor—or as irretrievably damaged (but somehow still golden-hearted) rogues—that getting the in-between of, “Shit is awful,…

I still don’t get why audio logs and clips are seen as a negative as a narrative tool when things like hundreds of pointless books in games like Elder Scrolls is seen as a good thing.