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.

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.”

When I was a kid in the early 2000s, my family had a portable TV similar to this.

“We have so much money we don’t know what to do with it,” Trump said. “I don’t know what to do with all the money they’re giving us.”

The 3ds never required people to buy stupidly expensive memory cards either. That was very much the deal breaker for me.

They’re fighting back against a shitty move. Publishers need to know which lines to cross and which not to. Would you have wanted EA to have had no push-back from turning Battlefront 2 into a Pay-to-Win game with lootboxes? The majority of gamers didn’t want their product to be that way so they pushed back.

Man interesting that you note that “you don’t have the full story” here, when you have even more information than you did when you mounted your soapbox earlier.

Just another great device squandered by Sony not knowing how to properly market it.