It’s more an issue of the OS not being able to play certain media out of the box. But plenty of better software for that anyway.

Again that’d just come down to already being committed to both platforms. You aren’t likely to get people buying games JUST to stream them.

Right, but what’s the appeal streaming TO it from a console? Odds are your console is in the better place to play console games.

It wasn’t really a mess, so much as an awful decision to pretend a desktop user has the same requirements as a phone or tablet user. It still ran better than 7 did even with their goofy phone UI is good enough for keyboard and mouse users.

I think the larger group is probably committed primarily to one or the other, really.

My point is that if you weren’t interested in owning both platforms in the first place you’re unlikely to have this be the tipping point. The fact that it does “more” really falls into that same category Wii U + PC does; the argument that the Wii U lets you play games you can’t play anywhere else, while the…

Content end points I think have a solid niche. Small devices that provide you with content from somewhere else. They’re cheap, and have a small footprint.

I don’t think messaging matters so much as their lack of commitment. They’ve got no stakes in the success of Steam Machines at the moment. They don’t make any of them. They don’t make any more money even if you buy them. They’ve taken almost none of the risk, and still collect all of the reward whether you buy them or…

Are smaller Steam machines a draw to begin with? This sounds rather similar to Nintendo fans arguing for Wii U + PC. But I don’t think the average gamer thinks of devices in terms of filling content gaps. A mediocre computer that relies on another device to be complete is kinda an awful selling point for all but a…

It’s not non-relevant. You’re just under the mistaken impression that Kotaku is a dedicated video game blog, and that somehow various elements of geek culture aren’t relevant despite years of coverage on those topics.

They’ve discounted PS+. I remember $30 12-month cards around Black Friday two years ago (they didn’t do it last year, although I believe they’ve dropped to $40 a few times since then.)

They’ve discounted PS+. I remember $30 12-month cards around Black Friday two years ago (they didn’t do it last…

I’d argue the real problem is needing more than one of them. For the power the cost isn’t awful (700 ilvl crafted gear usually doesn’t sell this cheaply), but you still need multiples of these to buy anything. A minimum of three for armor, and four for a weapon.

The article specifically mentions running Cata raids to pay for 700 ilvl PvP items (which are sold by players.) No one said the items were IN the Cata raids.

The random suffix crapshoot is probably the worst part. Getting a steady stream of Apexis crystals isn’t particularly hard, but having to blow 5-10k just for the chance to see if you get an item worth upgrading with the 20k token is awful.

Yeah. With garrisons it’s easy to make money doing pretty much nothing. Just doing missions can often get you a decent amount of gold, and the more characters you have doing it the more likely you’ll get higher gold yields. With six level capped characters and three leveling, clearing at least a thousand gold a day is…

Catch-up mechanics are good. A new or returning player probably won’t get the chance to do content in order, so whatever it takes to get them up to par is generally a positive. The top-end content is still hard, if you want a challenge.

A 25-man Heroic Cata raid is probably closer to 2-3k a run. As 700 ilvl items go 7-12k ain’t bad, but you’re gonna need to run those raids a bit more than once or twice.

I don’t propose to know how well a bunch of Western-born male models knew how legal what they were doing was. Or how well they understood what the police would have been saying to them. It’s not by Western standards particularly egregious. In any case, if the worst of it amounted to “being dispersed,” it sounds like…

Who said anything about excusing their behavior? This was about the OP’s rant about disrespectful Westerners. The same thing would have happened if they’d used local actors instead, and the onus would still be on the company that organized it in the first place.

I imagine the deal was with their publisher and not the guys who made Fallout 3 specifically, for what it’s worth.