If having people on is you guys vouching for someone to some degree, then you have vouched for far more vile, shady, toxic people than Palmer Lucky by miles who have lead and instigated enormous hordes of internet trolling, doxxing, and other nefarious behavior.
It seems that No Man's Sky was the clear winner, because it was an actual game by an actual game company and not about the external BS dealings of some d-bag from a social networking company that's making a piece of hardware that can be used to play games on.
8 hours of play and never received a single squad command. Never heard a single voice in chat. Maps are pretty bland and same-y. The blimps and ships that come in and turn the tide for the losing team are obnoxious and kind of not worthwhile, and . . . all in all, it's actually probably * worse* than BF4, which I disliked so much, I stopped by about the 20th hour.
Hard to hit a terabyte? Are you serious? Let's say you have a family of four and each of you watches an average of one movie per night. That's it. Nothing else. No streaming music, no remote backup services, no VPN, no VOIP, no podcasts, no twitch streaming, no watching youtube or creating content for youtube, no streaming radio, no bit torrenting, no downloading video games, no playing video games, and no web surfing whatsoever.
A family of four, watching an average of one movie (two hours of HD content) per day will easily use at least 960gb per month - possibly more. Throw in some 4k content and that amount will skyrocket.
Or, let's say a family of four where you have a console and a PC and a bunch of games installed (with dozens of games installed, you'll eat up tons of data per month per PC just on steam game updates auto downloading). Let's say Dad and Junior get the new 130gb COD. There's 260gb right there. Just on one game. And let's hope no patch update to it is just as big (remember back when the 45gb Halo collection required a 45gb update?).
One terabyte is trivial to exceed and has been for a very long time, if you get all of your content over the internet and, in our family, we do. I'm connect to work via VPN 24x7. All of our entertainment (television, movies, podcasts, youtube shows, twitch channels, books, audiobooks, comics, video games, music, radio) comes in over the internet. Most of our vital data is backed up remotely, in case of, you know - fire or burglary. One of us streams fairly often, too.
One terabyte is a given, every month. It's a base line. Two terabytes is a more common amount of usage, sometimes going well above and sometimes a bit below. And this has been the case for a couple years, at least.
Instead of people whining about "why does everyone say this isn't a game?" about games like this, why don't people ask "why are the creators of these non-games so desperately set on insisting they're games?"
Just because something is created with the tools of one medium doesn't make it a part of that medium. I write a book on the same piece of hardware that I write code on, but a book isn't a piece of software. A film isn't a book. Neither of those things are a game. A narrative tale told using tools normally used to make video games doesn't make a non-game a game.
As to what a game is? Well, use the dictionary. A game is something - usually competitive - centered around choice, luck, strength, or skill. If you're just walking a narrative straight path, then it involves none of these things. It is a passive experience.
AND THAT IS OKAY.
IT IS OKAY THAT YOUR THING IS NOT A GAME.
So stop losing your crap when someone says it isn't (especially since people shopping in a game market for games might like to be warned that a thing they're considering buying is not an actual game, so they can make an informed decision).
Hearing Rami whine about "people on twitter who are upset with you and try to report you to your company for your behavior on twitter" is fucking ridiculously hypocritical since he is exactly the guy who does exactly that to other people on twitter.
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