General Anticipation, Speculation & Recommendation Thread
Mar 5, 2021 2:14:27 GMT
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Post by turianlannister on Mar 5, 2021 2:14:27 GMT
Feb 26, 2021 10:44:31 GMT Lee said:
Also, I have a sneaking suspicion the true reason that MP is gone from Dragon Age is that loot boxes are now pretty much a no-fly zone for games. Both Mass Effect and Dragon Age relied heavily on that to make them profitable. Felt like I had to say it. 
Manveer Hier said in an interview that one person spent $15,000 on loot boxes in one of the games that he worked on
I'm surprised that Hagface Rowling permitted it
Mar 3, 2021 3:28:15 GMT Lee said:
HP rpg is such an emotional landmine for me. I hate that it has to play out this way. I have never loved the idea of a game so much that I now feel guilty at even thinking about possibly wanting it. I wish J.K. Rowling would somehow just grow as a person and stop being shit. That would help so much! It won't happen, but damn it! Harry Potter as a whole franchise is so tainted by all of this for me, I swear.
Like it's been one thing when it comes to individual actors or even showrunners, or hell some company like BioWare, because the things they're involved in are collaborative works. It's not any singular shitty person who makes the whole thing shitty, even if that shitty person is at the head of the table, all these people leave an imprint on the finished product, and even if they're technically financially benefiting from my interest and purchasing of these things, it still feels like pennies out of the whole purchase because of how many other people share that paycheck.
But the whole series is FIRMLY hers. She maintains such tight control over it, and makes every effort to keep that tight control. You know, spreading out what is "canon" years after the fact, doling out these various tidbits that are now a part of the world once she says them and everyone is expected to accept them. Plus as I reexamine what she has done and said, the things in her works, there are a lot of things that become so much more evident, so much LOUDER - the antisemitism, the classism, the fatphobia... It's all so much harder to just let that go, knowing that this is all HER. That supporting it supports her.
I've been rearranging my bookcases and getting ready to put a lot of books that have been freestanding for years in shelving proper as of late. And as I look at my Harry Potter books... Honestly, I am genuinely, DEEPLY tempted to instead sell them, not even able to take them, open them, go through and read bits that I loved, or even put them in that place of honor on the shelves at this point, knowing what I do about the writer. And it HURTS.
I have no idea where my Hairy Pooper books are now
On the Anthem situation I couldn't give a wet fart about it being cancelled, I boycotted the game after bioware abanoned Andromeda. Someone on twatter is trying to get people to boycott Mass Effect and Dragon Age over Anthem being abandoned, I gleefully informed him that I boycotted Anthem over the Andromeda situation and good riddance to it
