Given the first game has a reputation of sorts of being a bit underwhelming content-wise, the response is kind of predictable. I’ve no issue with multiple crowd funding campaigns, especially if the company has a proven track record (like say Harebrained Studios and their work on Shadowrun. Their games are perfect for…

I don’t know that my Steam level encourages me to do anything I wasn’t already doing anymore than Steam achievements do. Tying them together probably won’t help there either.

Given YOU started the conversation in that matter (as opposed to say, the content of the video) I don’t know what you expected. Opening with a GamerGate talking point didn’t exactly suggest you were interested in the actual matter at hand.

No, it’s who you tell to take responsibility that’s so telling. It’s the idea that women should have to change their behavior to stop some apparently inevitable response from men. It’s the sort of bullshit attitude that suggests that men can’t help themselves.

So I ask you this. Is being called “Final Fantasy” relevant to the gameplay of the MMO?

I’m a male gamer. I think we can have a discussion about actual victims of internet abuse without turning the conversation into why it should be really about people how people who like video games are being oppressed.

I’m not the one hung up on telling them they should be responsible for someone else’s reaction.

Yeah, that’s absolutely what you were talking about last post. You’re not just trying a half-assed recovery because you thought you had me pegged as a woman earlier.

Well, I’m not a woman, so great job with that outside perspective so far.

I don’t see you suggesting “fuck accountability” when the comments are made, only when women can’t be expected to receive them.

I like how you think the accountability stops with the woman and not the individuals making the comments.

But it is the consumer perspective that makes the relevant difference.

Shouldn’t have worn the dress, eh?

Certain people get whiny when issues pertaining to women don’t get sorted into purposefully cordoned off women’s areas. Don’t want to catch cooties!

Despite what Count Smorkula said, the 360 still sold fairly poorly in Japan, apparently worse than the original XBox did. And while Microsoft initially had a policy of buying Japanese exclusives, this seems to have died down somewhere around 2009. Not that this helped sell systems in Japan either way.

It depends on how much these are over existing 500gb models.

They change the formula all the time. The original Final Fantasy differs considerably from any of the entries you’d care to count later on, and many of the thematic elements that pervade the series weren’t even established until later entries. They aren’t any more or less true entries because of their differences.

So you’re not excited about Mother so much as you’re jumping to the conclusion that this will lead to a release of Mother 3 outside Japan? Why make that assumption automatically? They’ve already got a completed official translation of Mother 1 to go on. There’s never been more than a fan translation of Mother 3.

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Some people simply do not enjoy multiplayer.