In a word, fear, that it will eventually run roughshod over real gaming. I just don't want it to succeed well enough to supplant the local experience, or make it as hard to find as good, unmonetized single-player AAA games.
"Even if the lawsuits won’t legally hold up, Epic might want to think harder in the future before looking to the latest viral dance craze for emote material."
Sorry, no. Either there's copyright protection, or it's freely usable by anyone. There is no ethical grey area here. We're talking about quickie dance moves, not anyone's livelihood or property.
Yes. And busting a move at a club is NOT choreography.
That's it, I think. Step aside until the dust clears. I have a feeling that dance lawsuits are going nowhere, but I wouldn't risk a lot of money by ignoring them.
When it comes to Uematsu, how can you pick the bombastic Liberi Fatali over the haunting Terra's Theme?
I read the story carefully. The words "Microsoft" and "Xbox" don't appear in it--not once.
Reroll is a faithful port. I enjoyed playing it, though I conflated "We ❤ Katamari" with it in my mind, and was disappointed that it ended so quickly. Huge missed opportunity to modernize the control scheme. The alternate controls provided are terrible, a real head-scratcher.
Lonely upvote here. I was so disappointed, particularly with where the movie went with the characters I cared about.
I think I'm just too old for the negative swing in movies. I remember when dark movie meant that the protagonist loses a hand and finds out that the really bad guy is his father. Now, dark movie means EVERYBODY FREAKING DIES!
That doesn't make it right.
What should happen is he loses that game, or gets the opportunity to pay the rest of the higher price in his territory for it. What should never happen is losing all the other games and content he bought.
This individual claims never having requested a refund. The request was related to exchange rates, allegedly. Regardless, banning the account means taking away a lot more than this one game. If I buy a hat in Mexico and bring it to the US, the manufacturer won't send goons to my house to take all my hats away. If you buy something, even digitally, no one should be able to deprive you of everything you've bought from them in one fell swoop like this.
I haven't had any problems either, but this story shows that they control whatever is in your account, not you. They can choose to shut you out, and that is power they should not have--not after you've paid for the games.
Also PayPal are borderline crooks. So far I've managed to avoid using that service completely.
Wow, old memories. Like EA, Activision started out as a real innovator. They were the first 3rd-party game developers for the first commercially successful programmable game console, the Atari VCS. They pushed the limits of the hardware further than Atari. Creative stuff. I had Kaboom, Dragster, Fishing Derby, Boxing, and some alien shooting game. I hadn't even thought about that in years.
Gaming can be addictive, in the same sense as gambling. It's not a physical dependence, but a psychological one. However, I suspect that it takes a lot of overexposure over a long time for this to become an issue. If a gamer's life changes detrimentally as a result of neglect caused by too much gaming, and then he doubles down on the gaming to escape the real-life consequences rather than dealing with them, he's in trouble, and needs outside help.
Read the story, twice. (It's a short one.) I still don't know what an old PC running Windows 98 has to do with it.
For my next trick, I will fool everyone into thinking that Mother Theresa was a pedophile. Easiest trick in the book, since all I have to do is say it, and many will believe it.
Just a quick FYI: Most of the "inappropriate" posts are not inappropriate at all. I recommend unhiding them, to evaluate them fairly.
Mixing logical-thinking gameplay (match-3 puzzles) with prurient content. I never understood that. One works against the other across the hemispheres of your brain.
Hey, a contemporary. Same here. My first "console" was a yellow Magnavox Pong predecessor with 2 pan pots attached to it. The Atari VCS is where I really started getting into it.
I stopped getting overly excited about games maybe 10 years ago. I still spend a lot of time gaming, but I don't go ape over it at all anymore.