man, you know what they should do? is get the director of uncharted to make a single-player star wars game . . .
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Considering Star Wars’ consistent ability to make incredible amounts of money off of mediocre products (the prequels, most of the new novels and comics, half the old EU, most of the merch) I think they could’ve shit out half this game, slapped a Wookie on it and still turned a profit. The fact that they seem to have…
So you saved money, and you fell cheated? You saved 15 bucks. If this is a game you’d like to play over and over, well then duh, but otherwise...
No one can ever complain about overpaid players ever again, not when the worst commissioner in professional sports is set to make $50 mil/year.
It’s fine that you have to grind for nearly two days to unlock Luke Skywalker, the dude who Star Wars is largely about?
If you really want the “Heather isn’t fucking around version,” here it is:
Loot boxes are, ignoring the hair splitting of insufferable pedants like yourself, gambling. They are crafted, from probabilities to visual to their contents, to condition individuals and encourage repeated purchase and use. People with…
Worker and consumer rights are absolutely moral issues, largely because compensation for labor and the cost of goods (at least under capitalism) is fundamentally exploitative in execution. Usually, we roll with it and that’s fine. For instance, I don’t have a problem giving my guy at the bodega a buck for a soda even…
You’ve officially cemented yourself as my favorite author on Kotaku since that last loot box article and this one makes me love you more.
Okay, some further editorial.
Loot crates have always been a moral issue that the industry (publishers, devs, journalists, influencers, and whoever else) has mostly ignore or dismissed and that’s incredibly screwed up. Even cosmetic focused crates, which don’t affect gameplay, use specific audio/visual cues and…
Yup. I really enjoyed the, like, three or four months of fun I got out of it, but there are a lot of neckbeardy dudes who think they’re Neo asthmatically wheezing in one’s ear when you play this game. The outright stalking happened to me once, but that was enough to convince me to let the overgrown babies have their…
Since I took my first journalism class in 1970 to today, I remember two things: never misspell someone’s name and use the word “alleged”. But times have changed. This is not 1970. The institution has changed, so surely the rules must change within the institution. What you posted was jarring, but progress usually is.
Here’s another example that hews more closely to Diana’s point, then:
His first title, out later this week, is the result of a partnership with Pewdiepie, the
YouTuberracist motherfucker who helped turn Goat Simulator into such a big deal in the first place.
I don’t think an article title has ever made me hate a game without knowing anything more about it before. So that’s cool, I guess.
Adults have ruined Halloween. There, I said it. And fyi to the costumed parents who come to my door with their kids expecting candy: I’m going to be taking candy from you dimwitted poseurs. Get some dignity, put tennis shoes on with your work clothes and reluctantly walk your kids around the neighborhood, staying at…
My friend cheated on his wife. He gave his wife multi-drug resistant gonorrhea.
I entered an S-program without ever having physically cheated on a partner in my life. It’s actually not uncommon. What I’ve seen happen frequently is people fix a different addiction in their life, like AA, and then realize that whatever was compelling them to drink is also effecting their love lives. Nothing about…
I’ve quickly learned (from Captain Awkward: go there right now if you’ve never been, I have grown so much as a person and a “bitch) that having a “script” of responses takes a lot of the pressure off. Next time potential FIL says something racist, look him in the eye, let the silence become just a bit uncomfortable,…
An EPIRB/ Mayday Call would have been entirely inappropriate here.