"this is basically how the real world economy works but instead of buying virtual CS:GO guns and TF2 hats people are buying stocks in companies and gold and silver."

"this is basically how the real world economy works but instead of buying virtual CS:GO guns and TF2 hats people are buying stocks in companies and gold and silver."

That may be true, but stocks, bonds, gold, and silver are not *virtual* and affect the real-world economy.

I feel the same way about people who freak out about getting a "$30,000" Black Lotus, too: It's ridiculous.

However, it's worse here. Why? Here's the problem: Virtual items have no *actual* scarcity or rarity. It's not rare because very few of them exist; it is rare purely because the developers say it is.

I actually got it for free. lol

Don't miss the very Xbox One-centric advertising language.

Stupid idiotic timed exclusives, or; How you can tell Microsoft dumped a ton of money on 2K and required that certain language be used in this press release.

There have been other browser add-ons and plug-ins that offered this kind of functionality, and they were shut down by content creators. I wouldn't doubt they'll get some sort of lawsuit against them soon.

Seriously. Half-Life is the very reason we *have* narrative-driven, story-based FPSes instead of just run & gun Doom/Quake/UT style games. That style of play was completely unheard of.

So, apparently you missed the link to this story: http://kotaku.com/half-life-is-1…

Purposefully exploiting a glitch is cheating. End of story.

I wish it would get all the way back to its roots and ditch auto health regen. Seriously, what's the point of having health AND a shield if they both act the exact same way?

I have never once heard of this. I played CS from Beta 2 to the release of CS: Source. So, it's not been 'always a thing.'

LotRO has 9 classes that, unlike a lot of games that have tons of them, are all very unique. Each one plays its own way, with some sort of unique mechanic that separates it from the others. And I don't just mean a different set of abilities; many have entirely unique systems attached to them. Each expansion added…

Lord of the Rings Online is not horrible, and it has been EXCELLENT at releasing continued content (5 full expansions in 6 years, as well as numerous small content patches throughout the time since it went F2P).

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is freaking amazing. I'm actually going to show Gurren Lagann The Movie - Childhood's End and The Lights in the Sky are Stars because I want to show the entire 'series' without airing all 27 episodes over the weekend.

Thank you for all the other suggestions. I'll look into them and use them…

Ok, basically, the range of genres can be almost anything. I already have quite a few good sci-fi/fantasy ones lined up (Log Horizon, Attack on Titan, Yamato 2199, Knights of Sidonia, etc) as that's really my favorite genre of anime. I'm really looking for stuff out of that mold, like comedy, slice of life, etc...…

Nono, I fully agree that a bonus should be earned. The odds shouldn't be stacked against the dev's favor though, intentional or no. I also agree that Metacritic is as good a metric as any, but there needs to be some improvement. Example: the website critic who wrote a review panning a game that he'd never actually…

"I'm fine with bikes lane splittingin traffic but only if they go slow and be safe. This guy did neither."

Exactly. I saw a guy doing this on a freeway in traffic. He had to be going 70mph (112kph) on a Harley wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and no helmet.

Publishers shouldn't ride a bonus on a Metacritic score, then refuse to pay it out when the game is shit because of a lack of proper development time and the constant push to release games even if they're buggy and/or incomplete. They need to take responsibility for when they're the reason a game is screwed up.

Take…

Nada, huh?