Just gonna paraphrase/quote some Queen from Youtube here; it is morally justifiable to pirate from Nintendo.

god that company is run by such fucking assholes (and that includes Reggie)

Oh, man, what to do? Play an “enjoyable” game sick with loot boxes and put out by scumbag company Activision Blizzard. or play a different “enjoyable” game without monetization published by an entirely different company? What should I do with my time? I just don’t know.

So you’re not only saying that you got a pop-up for buying stuff after the tutorial which, fine, is a thing for free phone games we’ve come to accept, but that these pop-ups continued throughout the game? That seems like a quick delete to me. 

it’s from the same guy who created the MP for Sekiro, it uses a different way to connect people, that totally avoid the official server. And you know what? It’s so much more stable even on low end connection.

Top men?

BLOODBORNE! PLEASE!

If you’re not burned out and you’re at least at my level of “I’ve never played a Souls game and this seems fun and oh no I’m bad at this,” I’ve found that playing with a solid shield and a spear or rapier to attack from behind said shield is way more bearable than figuring out when to dodge through trial and error.…

Seth is inarguably famous and his involvement in this monkey thing is ridiculous and his NFT being stolen is so funny, but the "famous(?)" bit really kind of detracts from the focus of the piece.

Wild that you missed the point of what’s happening by this wide of a margin.

This guy is over here rooting for corporations to milk the most out of consumers. Accompanied by some sort of fedora laugh.

Really weird.

Why do they deserve this? There was a sale, they took advantage of it, which is the exact purpose of sales. I’m not sure what they did that was “wrong.”

In their defense Microsoft allowed, and still does, users to stack gold (up to 3 years max) and then upgrade it all for only $1. So there is already precedent in the market for this just being a part of the deal to get players to initially sign up (after converting then you only get the prorated amounts based on…

Which shouty guy on Youtube? There has to be millions of shouty guys bitching about video games and anime on Youtube. 

.... What?

You’re not crazy at all.

I think you’re failing to distinguish between value and value proposition.

Setting all of the national chains aside, if you live anywhere larger than a small town, you’ve probably also got a locally-owned game store that you could patronize if you go look for them. They’ve probably also got better service and more knowledgeable employees.

What in the actual fuck are you on about?

It read to me like somebody at GameStop played Civilization IV and decided to imitate Leonard Nimoy’s delivery of the quote by Wendell Phillips: