Digital is just a long term rental. At any point, your license to the game can be revoked for any reason chosen by the platform/publisher whether it be to licensing rights changes, shuttering of the platform itself, etc so I buy physical copies.

Microsoft has a long, long history of embrace, extend, extinguish.

This is my main point of frustration as well. Hereford was unbalanced but i still loved working around that and the 3 floor (+basement) 360 degree mania. The redesign is just a fucking maze. I don’t think I’ve liked a single redesign outside of maybe Clubhouse and everytime they tamper with one it feels a bit like…

Umm no.

Translation: this affected our sales and stock price.

waaaaaaait a sec, is voting with one’s wallet working?

The same release also states that there’s been a “sharp downward revision in the revenues expected from Ghost Recon Breakpoint, and, to a lesser extent, The Division 2.”

This is why it’s important for gamers to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to games. It’s not rocket science. If a company puts out…

I’m not the biggest fan of Jim Sterling’s work these days (his growing frustration with AAA publishing practices is, well, almost as exhausting as those practices themselves), but his take on RDR2's attention-to-detail and verisimilitude-at-any-cost habits are worth a look as a counterpoint.

Getting beaten by a rigged game? Fair.
Beating a rigged game? Stop right there, criminal scum!  

He was free to express himself. And he was free to get his ass kicked. The system still works. 

STATES RIGHTS!!!! STATES RIGHTS!!! STATES RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, they’re not the only ones to use scantily clad women to attract interest.

You’re right that no one is surprised it’s more profitable, but it’s pretty interesting to see some actual figures.

Let me fix your analogy a little bit..

Same token this has been coming to a front. They have slowly and surely been tweaking these games to squeeze as much money out of them. DLCs were one thing, but it was shitty when you were locked out of content that was on the original CD/DVD. Then they started with the loot boxes.

Disagree. This season was pretty clearly all about how much Rick needs his family, despite everything he says or does that is contrary to that. While, to me, every other season made it seem like he is only going to stick around until he gets bored or till shit hits the fan; The end of season 2 plus the whole season…

Alas, half of those beautiful vistas are probably locked unless you pre-order. Also locked? My wallet on this one.

I was enjoying the video until your repeated mispronunciation of “GIF” forced me to stop.

While from the ESRB standpoint this might be true I see a few differences in the details:

Physical trading cards are tied to physical ressources. You have to produce and distribute them. You can’t just change a value in your physical card game to virtually have an unlimited amount of cards available for people to buy.…