Even as a dedicated pokemon fan that hasn’t played Palworld (the butchering mechanics don’t really appeal to me)…

I really hope Nintendo loses this, and loses it HARD. I think that some actual competition would be really healthy for the pokemon franchise, giving them an actual impetus to make sure their games are high-quality and well-supported and don’t pursue serious anti-consumer practices.

Godspeed, Palworld. Counting on you.

Now that’s really interesting! I wonder where I can go to see this stuff…

TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK BOYS

“The group in question are the Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs, or BEUC, who represent 44 non-governmental consumer organisations from 31 countries, and have been around since 1962.”

Thank you BEUC, very based, we appreciate your looking out for us.

Thank fuck for that. With any luck the better conditions will even give them the power to push back on management if management demands something stupid be added to a game.

In an industry as notoriously dreadful as game development, every bit of quality of life counts.

Thank goodness for that! I don’t even play TF2, but it’s a really important cultural landmark in the history of online gaming and of a large era of the internet, so keeping the game in good condition and taking care of it is still quite important to me.

Yes, but I was under the entirely reasonable expectation that I would indeed get my niche thing (that being three or four lines of dialog), given the game’s overall setup, mechanics, advertising and franchise. It wasn’t just not included, it was actively averted as hard as possible.

Would you not be disappointed in the same circumstances?

But am I wrong? Making an unreasonable complaint?

I know that most people don’t like dragons as much as I do, but… is it really that weird to want them not to get screwed to the Nth degree?