Because product announcements and launches are a huge pain in the ass to coordinate, especially for ones as big as E3, where you have to coordinate the launching of sites, a whole slew of marketing materials, and social media posts for multiple games across dozens of web, broadcast, print, press, and social media…

That’s what blew my mind. The “Electronic Mall” on Compuserve, that I used on my Commodore 64 with a 2400 baud modem, had a shopping cart! And, that was an online service from 30+ years ago! It really seems like Epic got too ahead of themselves, and launched their service far before it was ready for prime time, and…

Publishers, not developers. There's a difference.

Publishers, not devs are getting more money.

You care about devs getting more money, but you don't care when devs are abused by thier employers? Epic is to put it plainly, one if the most abusive places for a person to work. But that's ok with you apparently, as long as the ceo gets a bigger bonus. 

Great article.

i used to not like barrett much purely because of how over the top mr t styled he was compared to everyone else. after seeing the translation series myself i realized if he was the more mature gruff fatherly role he seems to have meant to be, he would have been one of the best characters.

Counterpoint: It’s ok for there to be stories some people dont like. 

But that’s not why the people you’re talking about have a problem with it. They have a problem with her being a Mary Sue fangirl who’s overly obsessed like they are. Her gender has nothing to do with it; they just don’t like people holding a mirror up to their creepy villain worship.

I see the problem that some women are trying to see in the issue but I think they’re also largely missing the point. I see the story as more of an “obsession is dangerous” tale. There are women in the real world who are obsessed with serial killers and criminals. Look at the fandom around guys like Ted Bundy or the…

Twitter responses do not represent the majority of people.

That is a pile of virtue signalling rubbish. You don’t “speak as a white guy” no one elected you as a voice for others. You speak for yourself alone and it seems you want people to like you.

Never do that identity political crap, you represent yourself and no one else.

Emulator developers don’t rely on people using their software because they’re not making money off it. What are you even talking about?

For the last time, there’s been multiple US court cases, and while companies would absolutely LOVE for emulation to be illegal so they could talk like you, it isn’t. Emulators are totally legal. Pirating ROMs isn't and that's definitely spurred on by emulation, but emulators are totally legal.

What cereal box have you been getting your legal insight from?

Digital SALES may be cheaper, but only sometimes. The normal price is always higher digital. There are digital games that are a full $60 still, when the disc version is around $20.

I dunno, I lend games to my brothers all the time, especially when it comes to singleplayer games. (For example: I’m probably gonna give my brother my copy of RE2 next weekend when he’s in town for Easter, since I’m taking a break from it and he hasn’t played it yet.)

“Digital sales are usually cheaper that what I could buy games used.”