I played Bid for Power when they ported it to the Half-Life engine. Was ridiculously fun.

You haven’t? Were you living under a rock during those ancient days of 2013 when Microsoft was taken to task for implying that there would be no used game market for the Xbox One and they had to completely retool their DRM plans?

As for music and book stores.. yeah, we’ve lost a lot of them. But the ones that are left…

Is that so? You know, I’ve been buying games from GameStop for, well, as long as they’ve existed in my town. Maybe 2 times in 15 years have they ever tried to get me to buy a used copy of a game if I brought a new copy up to the counter.

I actually understand and agree with the concept that Overwatch is not a spectator esport. All of the action on the screen is so fast and so incredibly specific that it is sometimes very hard to know what, exactly, is going on, especially if you’re not a regular player of the game.

If all of the esports coverage used…

I won’t make any assumptions on your living situation, but clearly whatever it is allows you more time to put into gaming. Either that or you just choose gaming over other parts of your adult life. Just because you can still put tons of time into video games doesn’t mean others can; you’re still an exception to the…

So for those of us who weren’t playing FFXV during this time period and didn’t even know it was going on/had an end date, how the fuck are we supposed to play it now?

What the hell is SE thinking adding temporary events to a goddamn single player game anyway?

Yeah, this is what I was going to say. I didn’t even know these other types of notations were a thing.

Digital sales aren’t any cheaper to the consumer. And used game sales shouldn’t be a dead end market, just like used books sales, used movie sales, and used music sales shouldn’t be. Those markets failing is purely due to the greed of the companies involved and their bullshit belief that they are entitled to profits…

Completely invalid comparisons, you know. In the first, people are still likely purchasing tangible items that they can then resell if they want. The latter has absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand.

And that’s a time when a lot of old-school gamers will stop buying games.

How does a used-game store hurt developers? I could see if they prioritized selling used copies over new copies, but most don’t do that at all (and the ones that do usually get caught up in a terrific backlash that leads them to change their policies). The developer already got their money for that particular product…

When I saw an anime named “Record of ___ War” I got excited. But then I realized that while it was still developed by the same guy, it’s not directly related to Lodoss, and so I got sad. :(

Unlike most western viewers of anime I actually grew up.

Err, no. Snow Crash was very much VR Chat. Avatars were bizarre (they only had height limitations), the landscape was whatever owners wanted it to be.. Hell, it was more limited because you had to walk/drive/ride the train everywhere.

I visited the IBM campus when it first opened and they were using it for virtual meetings with their worldwide teams. I got a tour. It was interesting. I visited many a university campus there when they were new and staffed. I even made real money working media jobs in SL. It was an interesting platform, but easily…

VR Chat is less Gibson’s Matrix and more Stephenson’s Metaverse.

Except those hardcore players are right.

I really want there to be old Battlefront II star battles where you could fly your ship to the enemy capital ship and (after disabling its shields and stuff) board it and fight your way through it to destroy it from within.

That ‘someone up top’ is the fucking shareholders. Seriously, being publicly traded is the worst thing for *any* business that has to take creative/innovative risks and not just iterative ones. Look at cell phones: Where is the innovation since the launch of the iPhone and the birth of the true smartphone? There is…

Darkest Dungeon gives me anxiety just by existing. I can’t handle the thought of sending my party members away because they’re broken too far to be fixable. It’s like.. holy shit that’s a metaphor for the real world; use you up, break you, then shrug you off to the side when you’re not useful anymore and would cost…