Some games do this because of advertising. They can't present ads if you're offline.

We really live in an age of snowflakes. People can't just take one on the chin and move on, particularly when it's justified. And even feel the need to hit back making it even worse. Sad times.

Judge made a valid snarky comment.

The Callisto Protocol that you played now is not how it originally released. It was patched and tweaked a lot.

Also the gameplay is flawed. See the combat system with more than one enemy and it gets wonky. One of the changes was exactly to make enemies less aggressive as before they would often gang up on you and lead to frustrating deaths.

I like The Callisto Protocol a great deal as well, but it is a game flawed in what matters most: the gameplay.

He's right. Bobby's a parasite.

That sucks, but the studio was very misleading about The Day Before.

The endgame is to ban care for women and transexuals.

I haven't bought it, but it is online only and is heavily geared towards battle passes, season passes, the store and microtransactions from what I've seen. I'm still on Diablo 3.

I've played many games this year. The highlighting are:

• Fallout 3 - I forgot how fun this game is. Especially the exploration;
• Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings - good game as well;
• Dead Rising - a truly hard game, that is also fun. Zombies!
• Dead Space (2008) - still an awesome game!
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - the game is fun with the graphics and Force powers. Even though most boss fights are lame;
• Silent Hill 2 - still awesome!
• The Callisto Protocol - pretty good game! Surprised me how good it is;
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 - what a garbage game. Bad boss fights just to pad the game out.

Anything that gets your heart racing can trigger a heart attack.

No Man's Sky?

Zero. It's important to me to be personal in my interactions.

I play doctor and nurse with my wife. Does that count?

Money talks...

People–whether that’s developers, journalists, or players and readers–will always matter more than what’s in a video game and the coffers that information fattens, whether those coffers belong to hackers or corporations. If that’s true today, it can be true tomorrow too.

I like his brand of naiveté.

A $2 increase!? OUTRAAAAAAGE

He is a bully.

Limbo. Good game and it lasts only 2 hours.

I am playing through it at the moment.

Money talks...

We need more education on math(probability and game theory), sales strategy and involved psychology tricks( FOMO, door in the face, etc), financial/budgeting literacy and planning like you teach how to eat healthy and exercise

Well, the biggest problem with that is that the some of the biggest users of games that employ those tricks are children or teenagers who are too young to be physically and psychologically mature and to have proper impulse control. Like with games like Fortnight, FIFA Ultimate Team, Itch.io, ...

Ultimately you are excusing profoundly unethical and immoral behavior and pushing the responsability on the potential victims, some of which without the mental faculties to resist.

Sounds like Sid Meier's Pirates. Have you played that?