Princess_Pilfer

There are a number of flaws in your reasoning.

You assume that because someone pirates *some* games they pirate *all* games rather than pay for them. This is demonstrably false. Pirates (especially in wealthier nations) buy several times more games than the average consumer. This also unravels your second argument. Because Pirates tend to buy more games than anyone else, it's safe to assume if they couldn't pirate things they'd just ignore them, they *already* ...

The NV remake lives on. And doesn't have to worry about replacing Three Dog.

Yeah, uh, I don't know if you know this, but Nvidia has a long history of anti-competitive nonsense. Gameworks primary purpose is to fuck up performance on AMD cards (worthy of note: that time Fallout 4 disabled it in an update and suddenly AMD cards performed just as well as their Nvidia equivilants) and once AMD figured out how to *mostly* mitigate that at driver level, Nvidia switched to hairworks which *also* cripples AMD performance for no actual visual benefit and forced AMD to impl...

But it has no impact on sales. So it literally is not doing harm. The people who want to pay for it, will. The people who don't, won't. You don't suddenly convert pirates if piracy is impossible, they just don't play your stuff. Which can actually be a net negative, in the case that they'd decided they liked the pirated game and end up buying the rest of the games in the series instead of ignoring them.

Saying "it's theft" isn't an argu...

Where you put DRM into your games, don't stop piracy at all, piss off the paying customers, and then get hit with credit card charbacks from keys bought with stolen credit cards and sold on the grey market and what's what actualy damages your income?

Because that' what happens irl. The pirate who doens't buy the game was never going to buy the game, and the pirate who does isn't a lost sale.

You're going to avoid The Last of Us, Dragon Age Orgins, The Witcher 3 and Stardew Valley because some of the characters are or can be gay? You're a moron. (or a troll)

That would be like me refusing to play Persona because you can't be gay. It doesn't benefit me, I just miss out on a great game.

It's my only complaint but it's a *huge* complaint. IT's the make or break factor in wether I'd recommend Burnout Paradise or Burnout 3. If you really, really want adult hotwheels, get paradise, if you want an actual racer, get burnout 3.

No, it hasn't.

The average wealth a black faimily passes to it's kids is ~10k, the average white family is ~100k.

The simple fact is, *even if* all descriminatino was gone, which it's quite provably not, the fact that black people in particular were systematically denied opportunities for educations and wealth and segregated into communitied deliberately kept poor, and the fact that peoples grandparents were actually alive for this, means peop...

Burnout Paradise is fundamentally broken, in a way that isn't obvious if you aren't into arcade racers for the actual racing, or aren't looking for it.

The open wold city gives up specifically designed track layouts, and the "only the start and finish line matter and how you get there is irrelivant" nature sounds good in theory, but in practice and combined with ramming other cars being a big focus it means one well timed sideswipe sends you careening ...

I hate to be the one to inform you of this, but a non-white person in the US (just for example) is likely to have a *dramatically* different experience of life than a white person will, just as a non-Japanese person will if they live in Japan. When you make games for an ever growing global audience, these different experiences matter. They impact work, how subjects are handled, and the perspectives put in games.

Also, the US is not a meritocracy. Like, it's actually, f...

@Kun_ADR

Yes, free to play games aren't a thing. Expensive, successful, AAA quality free to play games that don't rely on lootboxes as their primary source of money (seeing as they don't have them) aren't a thing either. Warframe doesn't exist!

Oh, oh wait, no, that's wrong, and your argument is stupid.

Microtransactions have no place in full priced games. Or games that cost any money at all.

If it's free, fine, have your F2P economy. Otherwise, make your money by selling the actual game.

Because it *has* to. Almost every major publisher spend the entirelty of last generation spending transitioning from a lot of mid budget games (and a few high budget games) every year to releasing like 4 super mega budget games per year. Dark Souls sells 2 million copies and is a run away success, if GTA5 only sold 2 million copies it might have killed the company, and would have at the very least been a massive downturn.

Side note: This is *also* why so few AAA publishers...