So did you also play after the AH went away, and notice the huge difference in farming and gameplay? Reaper of Souls especially made a night and day difference in regards to how Diablo 3 played out.

So long as this game costs $70 while still including a battle pass, I think I’ll hold off on purchasing this. I’m sure for other people this will be no problem and they’ll likely have a fun time playing, but for me it just seems egregious to charge this much for a game and still be prompted to spend even more money on…

Did you play Diablo 3 on launch?  The droprate was very obviously impacted by the presence of the real money AH, and that affected the flow of the entire game.  Ignoring the AH in no way solved the problems caused by the RMAH.

So you can’t think of any reason how it would actually hurt someone other than “Because they said so”.  But hey, I called this.  Anytime it comes to the issue of how someone is being hurt, no one can come up with a good answer.

“anti-consumer” is a weird term, we are the customers, it is their job to maximize the money they make.

It’s not by any means a perfect game. The combat is simplistic compared to many other games, and fights against generic humans or drowners tends to get tedious.

Have you read anyone saying that Nintendo shouldn’t have the legal right to ‘bury’ their games? I still don’t think you understand that when people say it’s bad for Nintendo to do something, it isn’t at all saying that it should be illegal for Nintendo to do that. Laudable != legal.

Let’s take your exact situation. I made something, I’m not selling it anymore, and now people are obtaining that same exact thing for free.

When the IP in question isn’t being sold, how exactly is it hurting anyone if someone makes a new copy of it?

I’m pointing out that the justification for burying those works is completely different.

This should go without saying, but making a mod is a completely different endeavor from making most mods.  It’s like saying if people want to make bumper stickers, then they should manufacture their own car first.

Did you just compare older Zelda titles to “The Song of the South”?

Soo... your fact here is Pierre Bourdon saying that to the best of his understanding, he’s assuming that’s what Valve did?  Is there an actual link to anyone from Valve confirming that they asked Nintendo for permission directly rather than being sent a DMCA?

I trust you have a source for that.

Nintendo insists their intellectual property is valuable enough that emulation is this big threat to them.  Simultaneously that same intellectual property isn’t valuable enough to always make available for sale to the general public

How awesome! And Nintendo has the perfect response

Get your spurs on!

It’s not new to sell stuff based on promises that you can’t keep, but it definitely is still newsworthy and all around worth being criticized.  F2P or not, a lot of fans paid into this game thinking that eventually they’d get everything that was promised.

At least with this quitting in particular, I don’t see anything in the wording indicating that they’re fighting for better pay or anything like this.  They’re just stating that the management is shit and that they can’t pay the rent.

I’m confused, is there anyone who thinks the point of these protests is to make Gamestop better?