Games are getting more expensive to produce than ever, and fan expectations for the quality of the game experience is higher than ever- and as such, it is becoming a simple business reality that the standard, $60 initial purchase may not be enough to make these massive games profitable.

Even the ‘more expensive to make’ is yet another fig leaf they put on it.

There sure are a lot of upset pedophiles in the comments.

I do suggest installing games before christmas if you buy them for someone if possible. The installs can take hours(depending on what speed you) on a normal day and the download servers get destroyed by everyone downloading updates for games on Christmas so it will be even slower. There is also now the possibility…

Isn’t the point of it being a toy in the first place?

Iiiiiiif you were interested in talking to me about this kind of copyright law, you should send me an email at gita.jackson at kotaku dot com.

Context is key. Look at the substance of his writing under that name, for example; or the fact that he created an entire persona around it.

Western culture has spent hundreds of years letting white men write the narratives—both fictional and real—focused on cultures that are not their own and in doing so, allowed for inaccuracies, and a romanticized fetishization to become part of the way we as a society see those cultures. This manifests itself in a…

So if he were Japanese it wouldn’t be racist, but because he’s white it becomes racist retroactively?

Yes, some things done by a white person are racist when they would not be racist if done by a non-white person, because racism is about systemic power.

I don’t normally think doing something like this is relevant, but I’ll do it here just to weigh in as someone who knows:

I have an undergraduate degree in Music Theory and Composition, and Masters degree in Jazz (emphasis in composition and arranging) and that statement is precisely what you think it is: nonsense.

Absol…

I disagree with your first paragraph. It takes a long time for something like this to be recognized by the mainstream, non-gaming press. And once that happens, it takes a long time for anything to happen in Congress or state legislatures. I’m not saying the government will definitely step in, but this is about the…

Yeah, but people think Frank Castle and Rick Sanchez are role models.

I firmly believe people should stop using the “it’s just cosmetic” argument to excuse anti-consumer business decisions, since all that does is normalize things to enable them to get worse if Overwatch -> Battlefront 2 was any indication. The “it’s just cosmetic” thing only goes so far since you know eventually…

I got the collectors edition last week. It’s alright but feels like a missed opportunity. The increased options for subclasses is nice but a large number of them don’t really back up the flavor with mechanics that sell it well. I think the biggest problem is that subclasses are a really small design space, you only…

I’m pretty sure that realizing that a good chunk of people whom society loves are actually pretty flawed(or grotesque) is a step in becoming realistically aware that the world we live in was always trash, haha

Aesthetics are part of the video game experience and absolutely contribute to ones enjoyment of a game. Overwatch could be mechanically identical with no textures but it wouldn’t be near the success it is today.

It actually isn’t all violence against women by men in the game just FYI. You can choose to be a female, male, or “futa” main character and that can even change during the game with magic/potions, and a lot of the “slaves” can be any of those 3 as well.

The market for the inverse- that is, porn games where you treat the girls nicely and build up things in a loving way- must be mighty shallow. That is a game I would play, but being loving doesn’t seem to sell.