They’ve been forcing their studios to include awful microtransactions for a long time. Sometimes they even force them to include lame multiplayer modes because some executive somewhere must’ve read those were popular at the time. Just take a look at Deus Ex (HR had microtransactions nobody asked for, MD had both) or…

Elite Dangerous (twice), Team Fortress 2, Satisfactory, No Man’s Sky, Minecraft, Rocket League, World of Warcraft, Destiny 2... there's honestly a lot of games that have done it.

I disagree with a few things you said but that doesn't matter, you gave tim heideckers trial a shout out, that was awesome.

Seriously? Kotaku is going to write an article criticizing Twitch streamers covering something THE ENTIRE GOD DAM WORLD IS TALKING ABOUT?!?!?!?!

Oh the religion of climate change…..

“4-speed auto because the 90s wasn’t as great as everyone remembers”

Fortunately the Tsuru owner can pop into the dealership across the street for replacement parts.

No one’s saying the behavior is right or acceptable.

Huh, never seen an arbitration clause thrown BACK at a company to dismiss part of a case...neat.

game built around game mechanics some people liked ten years ago might finally come out! And it’s crammed up its ass with MTX! 

I’m curious to see how things will play out between this and Sea of Thieves. (Bias disclosure: I am deeply in love with Sea of Thieves. And I will set aside my Ubisoft antipathy for this post.) One of the great balancing core mechanics of Sea of Thieves is no upgrades.

When its required to in order to sell cars?

Lexus doesn’t think there is enough awareness about the dangers of distracted driving, so they wanted a steering system that will ensure even a mild adjustment by a non-attentive driver results in more head on collisions and veering onto sidewalks. 

This game is going to make billions of dollars.

Gross

It’s difficult to bet against Cameron since pretty much every project he’s been behind has had advance predictions of doom and gloom and turn to out to be blockbusters. I’m sure he’ll have some visual trickery that usually is pretty boundary pushing to get people into the seats. Honestly, I like Avatar mostly just for…

Stop pushing the narrative that Dodge was cringey. It was fun and we should be happy that a car company exists that seems to want to make fun cars.

Royal Enfield?!

You lost them at editing.  If spell cheque kant find it, it's knot getting corrected.