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@melonpan: But it's not a regular folks-versus-Internet famous issue. You could say the same about any multiplayer game. Coordinating it so that you have friends to play with versus total randoms makes for a dramatically better experience. No reason SMM should be singled out here.

You don't need to be Internet famous. You just need a friend or two who plays the game with you. That's what Dan had in Patrick. Take away everything else about that experience and leave just Dan and Patrick taunting each other, and I bet that's still their respective best experience of the year.

Standing O to Giant Bomb for leaving Fallout on the floor where it belongs. Don't care about the Witcher 3, though I tip my hat to any game that creates a fanbase that, when aggrieved, sounds a lot like the Shenmue fanbase.

This is what I envisioned the last day of GiantBomb.com to look like. Except perhaps with some occasional bursts of sobbing.

This same perspective is what's elevated microtransactions from its original inception a mere 10 years ago to the three-headed season pass/retail-specific DLC/unfinished-game-that-we'll-finish-later/$60-game-with-F2P-balancing monster we're stuck with now. Keep excusing it, and publishers keep taking an inch. It doesn't matter if people aren't forcing me to buy something -- it simply existing, and even a sliver of the population justifying its existence with their money -- means the harm is done.

If your time is too valuable to actually engage in the playing of Destiny, maybe save time AND money and don't buy and play Destiny. Never understand why people want to pay to not experience the thing they paid to play.

THIRTY DOLLARS IS NOT A MICROTRANSACTION.

Ahem.

@mandelbrot: I'm not a shill. VR is nothing like holding a phone close to your face. You're bashing something -- and much worse, bashing the people who love it -- without having even a clue what experiencing it is like. That's your right, but I would be remiss if I didn't remark on what a foolish look this is for you.

@devil240z: You may have to complete a few more side ops before Vinny and Austin's missions are unlocked.

@hayt: I guess I slept through that long period of failure and overpromised bullshit that came to define both Chair Entertainment and Abrams' career.

Recognizing the possibility of this failing is one thing. Dismissing it out of hand is another.

So much bleak cynicism in these comments already. So glad game development is left to the developers and not their audience.

Such a shame. The created the blueprint for this formula in 2008. Just, you know, do that again but prettier.