So, what exactly does Minecraft (one of the primary games mentioned in the lawsuit) do to cause this? Because that seems like a major outlier compared to the other listed games.

It would help if the lawsuit was actually focused on lootboxes, microtransactions, and the like as harmful gambling.

But it doesn’t. The lawsuit claims video games themselves being good creates an addiction.

But…they don’t? Their mainline games are always a few years apart (with the exception of Bloodborne, which they had a separate team doing concurrently).

Unless you’re referring to the other games they publish that no one really knows about or comments on? I don’t think Metal Wolf Chaos XD, Déraciné, or Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airou Village DX should really factor into the discussion.

Convenience is paramount. It’s why the in-app purchases that are most likely to be bought in games by the most people (not counting whales) are ones that make the game experience more convenient, rather than just giving special currency.

If only we had gotten Skyrim in space.

I’m still optimistic, because fallout 76 did finally get there!

This is sarcasm, right?

Well, Jirard admitted on the call in the video that he knew almost two years ago that the charity had never donated to anything. So strike those options off your list.

I don’t see how there’s any good explanation though for having a website quote thanking them for donating from someone who was fired for money issues 7 years prior.

Funny enough, I think the most blatant and consequential example of this not being able to be taken in good faith is the use of the quote from the UCSF person on the charity website. A person who was fired for money problems 7 years before the charity existed.

No matter what explanation they can give for why they have a quote from him thanking them for donating to UCSF, I see no way for the explanation to be good.

And they get really mad when you criticize their AAA games with blatant flaws and corrupt practices.

I really hope they’re able to get better. That’s a scary bad condition to have.

“playing one of the top 10 games of all time”

You get that dirty sentence away from Activision.

As I said, it only minorly avoids the fate of other gacha games by actually having effort put into its story and gameplay.

I mean, Genshin Impact is an outlier in games out of China. A lot of the games, even the big budget ones, from developers there are freemium or gacha trash (and Genshin only minorly avoids that by having a decent story and gameplay).

The first step would be to produce proper single player games that aren’t reliant on a paid store model. There are some examples of that, but they’re incredibly rare.

All I “cherry picked” was their two most recent games that have actually been published in the past decade.

But those are their most recent offerings. I care more about the quality of what they produce now and not their glory days decades ago.

Well made games get praised for being well made games and get the accolades and attention they deserve, at least on the AAA level.

If a AAA game isn’t receiving that, then it’s probably not a well made game.

So Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 were kickass Bethesda games?

Why do you assume they’re going to issue a patch?

Why would he? Todd hates everyone who plays his games and cares only about separating money from pockets. Fallout 76 made that quite clear to everyone.

Scammed, but they’re like knowingly being scammed. It’s not a secret and the people seem totally willing to keep putting money in.

Well, surely this is a good look for future game prospects and their level of writing quality. Surely…

It’s hilariously sad when you require a headline like that because of your previous games.