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They make money hand over fist with the property anyways probably why they haven't devoted the tons of money and time it would take to make an MMO.

Merchandise, video games, and the trading card game already generate billions in revenue every year.

this is what being the pinnacle does.

it gives gamefreak literally no incentive to ever do anything but the bare fucking minimum

Yeah, and the manga hasn't finished yet so who knows when that is going to wrap up.

Yes but Square is so poorly managed that they'd never do anything about it. They expect everything they make to sell 30 million copies, then when it only sells 10 million they sell off half the company below market value. The fact that they still exist at all is kind of a miracle, they're literally held up by mobile gacha games and FFXIV.

Maybe not if Gamefreak made it

Isn't it a Japanese law that a big company like that can't be bought by a foreign entity?

The fact that they dumped their shares shortly before unveiling this idea gives me reason to believe that there's at least a little intentional malice and it's not just being completely clueless. Obviously, some degree of backlash was expected.

Update: San Francisco police told Polygon that officers responded to Unitys San Francisco office regarding a threats incident. A reporting party told police that an employee made a threat towards his employer using social media. The employee that made the threat works in an office outside of California, according to the police statement.
Heres the full statement provided by San Francisco public information officer Kathryn Winters:
On September 14, 2023, at approximately 0930am, San Francisco Police Officers assigned to Central Station responded to the unit block of 3rd Street regarding a threats incident.
When officers arrived on scene, they met with a reporting party who informed them that an employee made a threat towards his employer using social media. The reporting party also said that the employee works at an out of state location for the company, but that they had been unable to reach the outside jurisdiction to make a report.
The reporting party was advised to contact the jurisdiction in which the incident occurred, and officers took a courtesy report.

fzero 99 is actually great. the others (outside of maybe tetris) felt like hacks but fzero 99 is fuckin legit

i object to the tag of 'battle royale' being slapped on it (the lowest you'll get is top 40 on a grand prix, also battle royale implies it sucks) but hey, whatever sells sells

Wonder why they won't go back to 24 hrs though.

I'm perfectly cool with the world knowing the fine details of my butthole

They literally did a Direct the day it released and couldn't be bothered to include a 30 second, "hey, this game is out today!" notice. It's fucking pathetic.

Wait, Tales of Arise DLC?

new Tales of game looks ok

Especially so where I can't get plastic grocery bags for free and this is coming from a perspective of "I really don't need to care about this" instead of coming up with a strategy for dealing with cat poop.

There are special poop bags you can buy. Or you know, just use good sand.

Perhaps my privilege is showing, but I'm okay with spending $2 every 2-3 months for bags.

In a separate fully sealed smallish garbage can, yes? Also, that blows away Rev's weird comment about waste disposal bags not being big enough, if you chose to do this. Those little poop bags are plenty big enough, you can pick up big fat dog shits with those.

The new pokemon dlc is $35 and it seems like tons of people are just gobbling it up, despite the amount of complaining I've seen about Scarlet/Violet. It's insane to me. Not only are you buying something before it's out. It's something that has 0 scarcity and you'll be able to buy it in the future when it's out and can see if it's any good or not. Then there's the fucking price of $35, which is crazy to me. I'm not sure if Steam has just highly skewed my value for games, but that same amount can get me a whole lot of entertainment on there. I have a hard time seeing dlc as worth the money normally, but Nintendo's pricing on dlc and their lack of discounts in general make theirs easy to skip.

You made flesh-to-flesh contact with a butthole? That's pretty gay