@Archangel2222: We're talking about a hot chick in tight clothing crawling around in mud. Cry me a river.

@Archangel2222: Have you heard of movies? They're kinda like that.

@Xristophoros: You just reiterated my point. Squeenix is continuing their #1 best sellers, i.e., the Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider games, and cutting losses elsewhere.

Hitman was actually a cancelled franchise until they managed to pitch this episodic idea, whether it's successful or not is hard to say since doing a game episodic means you can halfass the following episodes when it isn't selling well without being called out for false advertising.

@Xristophoros: Most Japanese devs and companies are currently pulling back to Japan and pulling out of console/PC development in favor of mobile. What little they're continuing on the larger scale is pretty exclusively their #1 best seller or sellers. The economics in Japan are pretty terrible currently so anything even slightly risky is getting pruned, I'm sure it's only going to get worse from here on out.

This isn't a case of Japanese devs but they're owned by Japanese publishers who control their purse strings, same effect in the long run, I imagine we'll be seeing many more similar stories of Japanese owned Western devs shuttering in the coming months.

@olddadgamer: I think the fact that TV and Film are both seeing year after year reductions in profits suggest otherwise. It's not an overnight thing it's a seeping long-term poison as it costs more and more to make content, and as a result a willingness to risk doing experimental avant garde stuff goes away. Then you end up with sequel after sequel and reboot after reboot and everyone just loses interest.

That was happening to gaming WITHOUT this additional dragfactor.

It's okay though, I would like for them to crash the games industry as soon as possible so we get a revolutionary reinvention of it again like in the early 80's. My backlog is plenty big enough to ride out the dead period.

Anyway, the caterer comment was clearly hyperbole. Unions poison everything in the long run, we have laws for fair treatment now that the unions were originally formed to enforce, they aren't necessary anymore and now exist entirely to perpetuate themselves. They're welcome to put themselves out of business too.

@olddadgamer: Don't forget that if they get their way everyone else working in the industry will start wanting THEIR 'fair share' too. Expect game quality to plummet dramatically or prices to raise dramatically.

I can't wait for the first report of a caterer expecting residuals after delivering some General Tso's to a set.

Eddie Makuch: Turning Gamespot Into A Clickbait Rag One Terrible, Unfitting Headline At A time

@GRADERBLADE13: Opinion, therefore, true.

@rasterror: "Worst Company in America". So Crapcom is probably out. Activision has definitely been doing their damndest to be in the runnings though.

@chansaet: The beta is incredibly uninspiring. It's basically Battlefront with a WW1 skin, and no cool stuff like jetpacks and walkers. Battlefront itself was a huge disappointment so you just have to take that and sheer off what little it had that made it interesting and that's basically BF1. Pretty. Good performance. Boring.