Utterly not.

Punitive damages can be awarded for bad-faith bargaining, which definitely seems to be the case here.

It’s a stretch perhaps, but that’s what I think would be reasonable.

Probably not really feasible - it will require constant connection to a back-end server to play or some bullshit like that.

But even if you can, that’s not the answer. The proper action is to deny them entirely. Don’t play the game, don’t play PUBG, don’t do anything that expands their reach, money or not.

They need to suffer with NOBODY playing this game. They need to suffer by people deleting their Battlegrounds accounts. Software piracy is what makes games legendary.

Oooh, there’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.

$250M PLUS legal costs PLUS $250M in punitive fees. That should hurt them a bit.

Gen X weighing in. That’ll only last you so long, then your body starts to rebel no matter what.

I’m just here to say my god, that article was horribly written!

If this is what humans are cranking out, maybe I should reconsider my opinion of LLMs.

Portal I and II.

Psychonauts I and II, with the caveat that there used to be a HUGE skill spike in the penultimate chapter of #1. I gather they’ve softened it, but don’t know how much.

It’s almost as if he has no clue whatsoever about the history or politics of the Middle East.

Netanyahu’s LEGACY?

He’s been a murderous genocidal fuck for his entire career, and is now carrying out his long-planned final action.

His legacy is cruelty, intolerance, and death. Always has been.

One political pundit blathers on about how the other pundits are wrong about an issue that’s no longer important.

Bleah.

Why mention it? Because the media has a DUTY to call out a corrupt government! Because they’re not doing their job!

No discussion in the article about fraud or conflict of interest.

Article’s “key points” don’t mention the massive criminal conflict of interest.

Just finished playing Morrowind for the first time in decades. Half-tempted to go back and do it all again as a pure mage.

Failing that, I have so many games in my catalogs that I’m not sure where to start. Maybe Portal Revolution, maybe Brütal Legend, or maybe I finally get into the Witcher III. I keep trying to like Ride, but racing games never feel remotely like actually riding or driving a vehicle and I always spend my time in the weeds.

Glad to hear it.

I’m tempted to add Red Dead Redemption 2 to the list, but it’s too new for me to decide yet.

I think it belongs. It was the greatest storytelling game I’ve played in a decade or more.

• Portal 1/2 of course.
• Grim Fandango. (Flawed yes, but absolutely a masterpiece)
• Psychonauts.
• Fallout New Vegas.
• System Shock (the original).
• The Longest Journey.
• Mass Effect. Maybe.

Everything from Grim Fandango.

You need to get out more.

The song is a masterpiece on its own.

I don’t disagree, but I …don’t entirely agree either.

It’s absolutely true that devs are pretty bad at estimating costs, because it’s not their job. (And they’re usually good at estimating timelines, but bad at insisting on them.)

It’s also true that games blow over budgets and deadlines all the time, and yeah I remember when Duke Nukem Forever first became a joke and then a meme.

But consider that DNF was completed by a small handful of devs who ran with an almost-finished game that they knew they could make happen. In contrast, there is no finish line for Star Citizen. There is no path to success. As you say, they can’t drop it and be satisfied, so they make more promises and ask for more money. But here’s the key: They KNOW they cannot fulfill those promises - existing or future. It’s impossible at this point! The only thing they’re doing is delaying the inevitable, which would be fine if it was their own time and money; but since they’re constantly begging for money from optimistic gamers with promises they have no intention of delivering on, they are grifting. No excuses, no conditions, no “but maybe…” just pure con-artistry at work.

It’s possible that it wasn’t a scam to begin with.

But now? Now it’s impossible for even the most dewey-eyed dreamer to see it as anything less than a deliberate hustle, perpetrated by amoral grifters.