I see Battlefront, SoW and COD but no footage of loot crates. Very interesting.

Orisa had to buy 20 boxes filled with .wav files before she finally found one with a puppy in it.

Man, screw this game and everything it represents.

Worse art and a smaller roster than the last game in the series, no X-Men, and a season pass? Man, this game was a real touchdown.

Voice acting, good and bad alike, exposes the terrible writing found in so much of the medium.Bad writing is bad enough, but bad writing coupled with bad voice acting? Hell, I’ll switch to another language and subs — any language — to avoid that pain.

Hey, and if a 13-year-old walks into a pub and orders a soda, and the bartender says, “Young man, you look like someone who could use a stiff drink. Try some of this rum in your Coke. This one’s on the house, but I’ll start a tab,” we can’t blame the pub, right?

Well, there you have it. EA, through its greed, has opened the door for government to try to prohibit the sale of certain games to minors.

Yeah, I just don’t get this. Heather’s the voice of reason here, but to listen to the other writers here talk about how bored they are with the whole controversy, it just puzzles me. This is a major issue, and EA’s anti-consumer overreach just opened the game industry to the kind of regulation that was looming in the…

I think this move was made to avoid the industry-wide reevaluation we all want. This is done to keep the spotlight off publishers’ predatory gambling practices, to keep mainstream media outlet from talking about it in the context of Star Wars and Disney. I mean, CNN’s not going to care whether Anthem or Titanfall 3…

That CNN article really says it all.

Good on consumers for screaming about this and bringing these trashy, predatory practices to the fore. That CNN story is what they’re afraid of.

I think it’s precisely because this is a Star Wars game, and I hope this brings the loot crate nastiness to mainstream attention.

Wow, what a word-salad mess of trash that EA response was.

Remember, this Friday, to support your local casino and buy Battlefront II!

Translation: “I don’t like this conversation people are having so everyone should shut up about the topic.”

You’re taking heat, but I’m largely with you here. That “Tell Us What You Know...” piece was extremely careless. Merlan spent the first few paragraphs of that story dumping all over the Times, likely around the same time the Times was quietly, meticulously building its case against CK. While Jezebel was fishing, The…

So, Jason, will your inevitable longform piece about EA shuttering Respawn appear in 2020 or 2021?

Will the game still use the jazz notes to indicate whether you’ve made the “right” or “wrong” choice?

The “big spectrum of loot boxes” he refers to seems to run from “Things Blizzard Fans Will Blindly Defend” and “All Those Other Evil Developers Who Aren’t As Bad About Blizzard So Stop Picking On Blizzard You Guys.”

If he’s involved, and he’s a “founding member,” I’d look long and hard at that charity’s financials.