Thank heavens society has finally been protected.

“This is something to remember. The people at Gamefreak who are working on this game are spending months and years of their lives developing this new Pokemon adventure. It’s okay to be disappointed or even a bit upset about the National Dex news. But don’t attack, harass or insult the people making this game. That…

Spoken like someone who’s never sat in a Tesla or watched 3 rocket boosters land themselves.

Lol, you’re no better than Musk’s stans. Steve Jobs didn’t design the iPhone. A platoon of nameless engineers did. Steve Jobs didn’t make the iPhone. An army of near-slave labor at Foxconn did.

What the fuck are you talking about. Jobs got rich and famous by taking credit for the work of his partners and employees just like Musk does. People need to fucking stop buying in to cults of personality.

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.