I will disagree with you saying that Tencent giving data data to the Chinese government is outlandish. It’s pretty well understood in national security circles that if a major Chinese corporation has your data, then so does the Chinese government. The line between the Chinese government and Chinese corporations is…

I’m not going to hold my breath. No other company has managed to pull off what Square-Enix did in rebuilding FFXIV. Let's not forget it also required them to turn off the game for a long time.

Frostbite seems to be a major case of “not invented here” syndrome. I’ve seen that at other companies I’ve worked at and eventually every single one of them realizes that it's cheaper to pay the license than waste all the developer hours on it because developers aren't cheap. Unfortunately wasted dev hours rarely end…

Happens more often than you think. The original director for Final Fantasy XIV famously never played World of Warcraft.

I like how this isn't on cosplay.kotaku.com :/

I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s min-maxing. The nature of advertising is changing in the games industry. For example, where before it was pretty standard for a company to advertise at shows like PAX and E3, now multiple companies are questioning the advertising value they get out of these large industry shows.

This part of the development process has nothing to do with PC. This is the content creation pipeline and it’s absolutely structured so that they only have to make a female and male piece of armor and then have a program apply it to each race. After that they go and hand touch up because programs aren’t perfect.

As a developer this doesn’t pass the smell test. There’s no way they individually make armor for every race/gender combo. Chances are they make a male and female armor set to a certain spec and then their tools generate outfits for every race. From there they will make hand adjustments as necessary. To do it any other…

Citing lore for gender locking also doesn’t add up when the Miqo’te were gender locked for the exact same reason as the Viera in FFXI and 1.0. They changed it because it made no sense to gender lock like that, so this definitely is a step back.

The Facebook event has 120 something people going with another 120 something interested. The organizers very much know how to promote, but it’s clear that this event was not promoted outside of a small exclusive circle. So yeah you have the right of it Zakkudruzer.

Fotocon is what you want, but there’s no money in it. I am not even sure if Fotocon ran in 2018.

To hazard a guess, it’s the cliquey-ness of it. Something the cosplay community, despite its overall inclusiveness, struggles with. Granted, a lot of things in life are about who you know, it’s just that this seems rather up front about it compared to most things.

And they’re generally all the same because conventions are regional and a lot of people don’t have the ability to travel outside their region. So often that one anime con and one Comicon are all people get in a single year.

I need to learn more about SClass, but if it becomes popular how does it not run into the same issues that the actual cons themselves have run into?

Given the timing of the character’s release, he’ll be in Stage 2 of the Overwatch League. Chances are teams have been scrimming a little bit, but they’ll do full on practice after this weekend and the stage playoffs.

The first set of missions that unlocked. Me and my friends picked it up at launch hoping to get drunk and play, then after getting our asses handed to us several times we just gave up.

I wanted to like this game when it came out but the difficulty for the intro missions was just miserable :(

This is actually a huge issue for Overwatch. Blizzard’s lack of responsiveness, especially on the toxic community front, is turning off players who would otherwise tune in to Overwatch League.

Jason, have you seen the verified AMA with a Blizzard Arena employee who was laid off yesterday? https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/aq1qs1/im_a_former_blizzard_arena_employee_who_worked_on/

Not quite, stock as compensation for c-level execs is primarily to get around all sorts of taxes, etc.