Huge difference between developing a studio and franchises when compared to just buying them up and making them exclusive. Especially when you're talking some of the biggest franchises in the world. Which TES and CoD are examples of, being genre defining franchises for well over a decade.

No. Closest was getting the FF exclusivity deal after Square got fed up w/ Nintendo, that in the 90s. And they didn't buy the series, Square just took a new exclusivity deal.

“Which version would you like to install?:

Simply not true. I got MSI’s 1070 Gaming Z, their best 1070 card that generation, for $429 a month after launch. That, an i7 6700k, Asus Maximus Hero mobo, 32gb of 3200mhz ram, a gold EVGA 850w psu, a Seagate 7200 rpm 1tb hdd and a 500gb Samsung 850 Pro and an Artic Liquid Freezer I cost me less than you paid and were…

Gamepass isn’t their primary business. Certain people want to paint it as such, but it’s bleeding money. They chose to try to follow the Netflix model, ignoring Netflix is currently burning projected profits for several years into the future. MS did the same and more w/ their acquisitions. What happened is akin to…

If anyone wants someone to make stuff up or blow things out of proportion they need look no further than the comments section.

Unfortunate necessity these days. Certain people will try to cancel you simply for not supporting someone. Or speaking in support of someone. Or not firing someone when they were accused of something w/o any evidence. Or not firing someone when there is a ton of evidence.

I agree, but I don’t. They’re really just there to establish the characters ticks. The issue for me is when nearly an entire chapter is devoted to describing the scenary or the characters clothing. It very rarely has an impact on the story. On top of that, it takes up a huge section of each book. The ticks on the…

It would make sense in, say, a theater in GTA to advertise movies. The screens in the Spider-Man games in New York. There’s a proper way to do this.

You’re conflating ‘long’ with a repetitive grind. While the gameplay loop is initially fun and rewarding, it’s repeated so many times that the ‘reward’ itself becomes a grind. That’s the problem of creating formulaic entertainment. You admit this yourself. Yet you write as if a long game can only exist if it’s nothing…

At 1440p on all ‘medium’ rt, I was able to easily maintain a minimum of 60fps at nearly all ultra settings on a 2080 super w/ dlss on. Typically in the 75-90fps range. I did update my Asus mobos bios to allow their SAM-like feature. I also turned off full screen optimization and v-sync, as both have been found to…

People literally looking to be offended will always find something to be offended by. 

See a whole heck of a lot of people basically crying ‘Progressives can’t be evil! This show sucks now!’ Stop it. Get help. Politics aren’t life.

No, not every ban has a reason behind it. I’ll put something, anything on and play something or clean, w/e. I’ve been banned while doing this. So what was the offense when I was 30' from my keyboard?

Can anyone explain to me why its so hard to properly spell rogue? I’d assume typo, but it seems like 80-90% of people. Rouge, a color. Rogue, a chaotic person or character that follows their own rules or is out to achieve their own goals, even at others expense.

It clearly does.

Precisely. There are numerous infrastucture jobs which are continuing on as if nothing else is happening. Many of which deal w/ no less ‘crunch’ than Jason keeps bemoaning developers deal with. And many of those are forced to endure even more hours now bc of the additional hurdles caused by the virus.

That depends on release titles and how quick a console is adopted.

To argue against backwards compatibility in the context you are is to argue that ‘retro’ gaming is of little to no value. That, quite clearly, is inaccurate. Nintendo went out of their way to try to kill emulation. They know there is big money in it and sought to kill the competition after they abandoned those…

You realize you actually can do most of those things, right? That despite being an apples to oranges comparison, as that's a completely different format while how we read discs is essentially the same.