I played the Anthem beta and quite a bit at launch. Really enjoyed the game play but stalled out at the final difficulty tier in endgame. A combination of low drop chances and bad itemization made the progression ridiculously punishing at that point. And having only 3 dungeons, and useless open world content made the loop even less enjoyable.

Anthem could have been a great game if it had a little more content, had worried less about player retention and provided borderlands style loot quantities, and had tuned the items better (having 1%-400% ranges was bullshit, and that variability across the 4 different modifiers per item, with some modifiers being useless, like +ammo pickup vs +damage for example, made most drops useless. And most drops being useless made the low drop rates brutally aggravating.)

Also FOMO shops are dumb as hell and I’m convinced they generate less money. If you offer something cool that I’d want to buy, but I was at work so I missed out, now you don’t get my purchase, and I’m resentful. Just sell shit like normal.

Why are they spending all this money to aquire studios and IP just to cancel them? Presumably they need to release products to get a return on their investment, so why are they just sitting on stuff?

I hope they break it into a dozen pieces (or better yet, nationalize it) and cast Beef Jesus into the abyss.

Aren’t women generally considered lower risk for insurance? Less risk of needing to pay out means more profit for the insurance companies. Plus of course not having your ads shown to 50% of the population. Seems like it should be the advertisers going after Facebook for this directly.

The government did nothing to stop this conglomeration of assets and wealth.

Being owned by those megacorps is a prerequisite for holding office. Why would they do anything to stop their benefactors?

That’s just capitalism. But I guess when you benefit so greatly from the system, you can’t risk rocking the boat by talking about it openly. So you have to invent scary new names to smokescreen the root of the matter. “Technofeudalism”, “Neo feudalism”, “corporatism”, “crony capitalism” etc, is such crap. It’s still just capitalism.

Ignoring the ridiculous manner in which the article is written, look at the clownish arguments being made.

He charges rent. Which isn’t capitalism, it’s feudalism.

I know you have an island home dickhead, but the rest of us have been paying plenty of rent under capitalism.

You mean to tell me that a flavour designed by an algorithm that can’t taste or smell, or even actually think, is bad? I’m shocked.

Eat shit fascist

the return of classism.

The return? It never left.