that’s the whole reason they murdered Eidos. “Shadow of the Tomb Raider only made us twice as much money as we put into it in the first 6 months? FIRE EVERYONE!”

SquEnix has always had unrealistic estimates. Someone up high is running a con.

I think Square-Enix is legendary for their impossible sales targets. It really hurts them in the long run since nearly every game is a failure by their arbitrary metrics.

Yeah, these are important points to note. Falling short of sales targets could be due to a product selling poorly, or it could be due to unrealistic estimates.

“They just have the absolute most insane expectations. They could have shipped through to literally half the PS5 global install base and still been disappointed.”

This. Absolutely this. The eternal “arrow must always go higher” mentality that forces astronomical goals is such a damn cancer that even games that are…

It also didn’t sell particularly poorly. It certainly didn’t bomb and it’s not quite fair to compare it against FFXV, which launched way later in the consoles lifecycles to much, much larger install bases on multiple platforms.

The CHA part of it is likely also why you see Sorcerer, Warlock and Paladin at the top of the rankings. You get various utility *and* can be the face of the party

ive been having so much fun as a bard and abusing the crap out of disguise self

They found what looked like a tape backup, but it turned out to be Laserbeak in disguise. (He was part of a deep cover mission to make Starscream look like an idiot...)

The ability to submit a recording of the recent conversation is a really good step and if adopted by other systems it could do a lot to curb shitty people in voice chat (provided they actually deal with the reports properly). If that got adopted on a wider basis by Sony, Valve, and individual game publishers it could…

You do realize that the reason it’s illegal for adults to have sex with 16 year olds is because 16 year olds aren’t mature enough to make intelligent choices, right? You’re basically saying, “Why was she dumb enough to put herself in this situation where she was hammered and a potential victim of creepy older dudes’…

So who forced Hill to force himself on a minor, exactly?

Well, that was a take.

What’s even better is that this is 100% pulled from the republican playbook. It has happened multiple times over the years where a Democrat wins the governorship in a red state only for an emergency session of the state congress to pass a bill restricting their powers before they enter office.

There’s also the fact that some visual cue are so ingrained into gamer mind that it’s hard to change things up.

There was a game (forgot which one) that experimented with coloring their explosive barrel green to match with the visual style of the game. During playtesting, they quickly found out that either they were…

Is that all you got out of it?  You should slap your elementary school teachers for failing to teach you how to comprehend what you’re reading.

I would take you less time to Google why Rowling is transphobic than it took you to type out this comment, much less expect someone to reply to it.

Just read the article dummy, it’s not clickbaity at all and is a thoughtful exploration of the issue

The Final Countdown for me