Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures.

They had a reputation for buying better companies to own the IPs and gutting the teams before the late 2000s. It’s sort of cathartic seeing that happen to them now, but not really because all the shitheels who made those decisions will probably be getting a nice payout while the actually workers will just get kicked to the curb.

They’ve never made good games. They sometimes allowed one of their devs to make a good game when they weren’t looking, but no one is perfect.

How American.

They know their core audience.

At least he didn’t punch anyone this time.

I once swore infront a bunch of other adults in a non-work, but professional setting and someone stopped me to point it out. I paused, looked around for any kids and when I didn’t see any, pointed out it was fine. They were on the conservative side, but I’m not bending at the knee for that shit.

Must have slipped through the cracks.

Yeah, except this was irl at a lan part. Where they could see the woman’s lack of response. Whether they came with their boyfriend or alone, they never showed up to a second time.

“girls don’t play video games”

It’s just one joke, over and over again. I’m a guy, but one of the reasons I stopped going to lan parties was hearing this same few jokes again and again whenever a woman showed up. If it wasn’t a woman, it would be something else from the limited number of topics and opinions they had. When it wasn’t frustrating, it was simply boring.

Most of those devs are probably freelancers or from hired studios doing esoteric work. It’s still crazy to see these numbers when most of the games I play are indie and have tiny credit listings. 450 people could make at least ten of the games I play.

The smaller the dev team, the more pure the vision. Doesn’t always mean it will be good, but the good ones are great. The best AAA game still looks and feels like all the rest.

Here’s something. No way of knowing which games they’ll go after next.

They were always going to go after every 18+ game and then every queer game under the guise that it’s corrupting to youth. The fact that you’re confused about that is part of their plan.

There are a few real deals out there, but they never get the same attention as the con artists. Apple brought back the wrong Steve.

Oh no, whatever will I do with my time if I can’t play with literal children.

It’s very simple. If it doesn’t have a Server Browser, has MTX, has Gacha, has Rootkits, is Online Only/No LAN, or is made by any of the AAA studios, I don’t play it.

Pekora likes Kojima and Kojima like Pekora. Kojima also likes trolling his players.

I never really worried to much about continuity errors. The worse is Halsey being in two different places during the events of Fall of Reach book and the game Reach. The Forerunner books actually smoothed that stuff out by explaining when huge amounts of materials pass though Slipspace or go far too fast through Slipspace(remember that crystal?), temporal errors build up and you get a timeline split. Unlike most scifi timeline splits though, in Halo, the lines can reconverge and Reconcile without most people realizing it happen. Halo 5 made a little nod to that with Halsey’s “Casual Reconciliation” line. Somewhere in the Halo universe, some bookkeep is pulling their hair out trying to figure out how Halsey departed Reach twice.

Not necessarily beloved, but I hated the tone and genre shift between Jak and Daxter and Jak 2. I hated the driving sections so much, that that’s where I put the game down. Looking back, I guess they wanted to make a different game, but had to make a sequel?

It’s explained in the game that the Covenant faction you fight is a splinter faction. There’s more details in the books, I didn’t have problems when I played it.

Mortal Kombat is gone.

Their games aren’t worth pirating.

If you really want to sign the petition, fine. Just call them before doing that.

Change.org and email can be ignored automatically. Calling them costs them call center money.

Don’t waste your time with change.org. Call your CC company directly and complain. Not email. Call.

Citation?

No. I don’t think that. In fact, research says access to porn reduces sex violence.

Do you have trouble differentiating between fiction and reality?

Can I demand racing games be banned because they promote CO2 emissions?

Always has.

https://theweek.com/articles/497091/australias-small-breast-ban

It’s a popular streamer game, which means long gaps where nothing happens.

I think Croteam has been able to have moderate success over the years, but being based in Eastern Europe might make them insulated from issues. Devolver only recently bought them, but they seem to be one of the few good publishers. I at least didn’t see their name on the Video Games Europe member list that’s opposed to SKGs.

Major game publishers aren’t known for their good ideas.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the game industry isn’t also using bots to inflate the numbers to make people procrastinating not feel the need to contribute and make the petition look less valid.

Hedon, Cultic, Zortch I think were all solo devs.

We have had that exact model for decades. Hosting companies use to and probably still offer rack space for arena shooters. The main company managed the master server, which was just a listing of IP addresses, but there were only ever a few official game servers with defaults loaded.

Doom, Build Engine games, Marathon. I can still play those games, but even if Bungie faux-Marathon ever comes out, I wouldn’t be able to play it after a few years. One of the biggest turnoffs to these As-A-Service games is time limited events. I don’t want to feel nostalgic for something and not be able to replay it. Between the discussions on Hell Divers II events and the Sony fuckary, I’m glad I passed. Fuck, I remember my hype for Hawken died when I saw it was going to be f2p.

protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist

Nanny State BS. If someone runs a private server, it’s their responsibility to moderate it.

and would leave rights holders liable.

No it wouldn’t.

In addition, many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only

Unreal Tournament games are online or multiplayer only games. Even though Epic shut down the master servers, you can modify the .ini file to redirect to a community server. “Online-only” translates to predatory monetization models.

Egotism often translates to charisma and confidence, but falls apart eventually.

Also, a reminder, the “Con” in con-artist is short for confidence.