That’s not at all what that means.

Claw back implies money (or something else) has already been sent out and is trying to once again be retrieved from the receiving party.

I didn’t realize they’d been out for 4 years already. I could have sworn it was just hitting like 2

This looks hilarious.

Interesting idea. The art seems really inconsistent, though

What a dumb question. Frodo spent like 50 years in the Shire. Their 6 month trek to Mount Doom wasn’t enough to make him forget… His entire life.

The only business who is losing anything here is Apple.

Literally anyone else, including your solo dev kid cousin, who just made his first game, wins from this

What a dumb bar to judge them by. Not a single entity with an interest in fighting this fight would be doing it out of the goodness of their hearts

…at what point did I write off Skyrim?

20 minutes is enough to get an idea if a game is going to be fun or not.

Stop idolizing billionaires.

Which is weird they’re STILL having these problems, anyway. If you watch any of those making of Halo docs, it comes across like it was a fluke those games ever got released in one piece. Every time.

The fractured but whole.

Weren’t those already remastered?

That’s a very different privilege, one that is in direct contradiction to the consumer’s right to repair

This is where I point out that being able to retain the context of the conversation is helpful. I specified AAA titles. There being thousands of indie games of varying quality out there doesn’t change the fact that AAA games are taking years to release, there’s been a huge amount of publisher consolidation which always leads to studio closures, and them pushing these remakes/remasters is only adding to the staleness facing AAA

And your entire second paragraph is completely irrelevant to my point.

Given that NEW games are taking longer and longer to make. Remakes coming out at the same rate as always is a problem.

It’s all they do now. Copy paste Sequels and remasters.

Turns out some people want new exciting experiences and are such of the repetition. The industry focusing on these means less new stuff in an already barren wasteland of interesting games.

This is my fear. It’s already bad enough. AAA has been yeah for years now.

Half of those budgets is marketing

Developers have been underpaid for years. These increases are not going to them.