@dragoonmike: I'm not sure how that's going to work given the whole Coronavirus thing. I imagine we'll see how the NBA handles season ticket holders and that will be how all sporting events push forward.

@Blk_Mage_Ctype: I mentioned that on Facebook. Without the audience who are often as much of the show as a wrestler, the whole thing becomes an indie house show.

As I said, WWE should just cancel for a couple weeks.

While I know that the WWE has a long history of treating the talent as disposable contractors, maybe they should just take a hint from the NBA and give the wrestlers a couple weeks off.

This way, not only do you avoid possible coronavirus issues, you also give the wrestlers a few weeks extra healing time from the usual beatings that their bodies take.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8UQ4O7UiDs

They never really fully recovered from the 2006 announcement.

Before that, companies went just because "everyone went". As such, even when companies had nothing to show, they would still go solely because the paradigm was that "everyone went".

During the 2007-2008 debacles, companies found that they could go to other conventions (PAX, TGS, GDC), host their own shows, or just not go at all with minimal changes to their exposure and sales figures due to the growing presence of the internet.

While I doubt that E3 is going away any time soon, it's relevance isn't what it used to be and probably never will be again.

I'm not sure that I'm surprised.

In 2019, critic praise did not really translate into movie success and critic scorn did not translate into movie failure. Last night BoP had a 92% (which has since dropped to 83%) on RT. That caused me to wonder how well it would actually do.

*Shrug* Used game stores are doomed. For Black Friday, I traded in all my Entertainmart credit for a Switch and MUA3.

Going forward, I will either sell my games on Ebay or just dump them off at Goodwill. This way, I don't have to worry about store credit or any other such nonsense.

As someone who watched the original in the theater, this both pulls on the heartstrings and feels cynically manipulative.

@sbargovox3: While Zorlac may be antagonistic, the point is still a truth. The TOS issue and "License to play vs owning the game" has already been taken to the courts and determined there. Even Steam's TOS has been upheld. If Steam went out of service tomorrow, you have no legal right to reclaim any games you buy. (This has been a big selling point with GOG.)

All I can really say is the same thing that I said with XBLI games: Buy these games with your eyes wide open.

Pretty much. While TLJ did have issues, the Stormtrumpers have blown those issues out of proportion.

Fallen Order's combat takes cues from the seminal Souls series,

Aaaaannnndd any interest I had in the game just died.

you'll need to break through an enemy's defenses to get the killing blow.

I'M WIELDING A ****ING LIGHTSABER!!! MY WAY TO GET THROUGH STORMTROOPERS SHOULD BE "PRESS SLASH! MOVE ONTO THE NEXT ONE!"

*sigh*

Look, I'm not against the whole Souls thing or against making bosses challenging but, when a Star Wars game once again makes lightsabers as threatening as toothpicks against common stormtroopers*, I just fire up Force Unleashed.

*Since my comments will be twisted, I'm not against having stormtroopers be a threat in numbers or at a distance. However, when I get up close to a Stormtrooper as a Jedi with a lightsaber, it should be "game over" for the Stormtrooper. These games really need to take a lesson from Tucker's Kobolds.