Nathan was the important one because he actually provided positive press coverage for her without disclosure of their relationship. The entire goddamn shitstorm could've been avoided if he had just apologized and perhaps took a small punishment for it. Instead, gaming news media declared war on gamers. Was Nathan worth it? Really?
You can't play both sides in violent protests. Something goes wrong and you do nothing (liberal mindset), not only are you incompetent, but you prove the necessity of 2nd Amendment and Stand Your Ground laws (antithesis of liberal views) to the entire world. Actually do something about it- general safety is better maintained, but hypocritical liberals will try to ruin you for it (but they try to ruin you anyways).
See, any trouble over this could've been avoided by NOT SAYING THAT SENTENCE. Is the Chris Pine character a Bard? Fine, he can end up in situations where his lack of brawn and front-line combat experience would end up with a female that does have those traits saving him. Would even make sense in D&D setting. But blatantly saying you're trying to emasculate a leading man whose role isn't supposed to even be macho or action-y in the first place? What was the point in that if not to insult THE TARGET FUCKING AUDIENCE?
They're making good content. But it's still a long grind. I couldn't keep subbing having reached what was the furthest point at the time, and didn't buy the next expansions from there. I'm sure I could have a couple more months of fun if I get the next expansions from where I left off (Shadowbringers and Endwalker), but once I reach meta, it's back to the boring grind.
YoshiP did really awesome shit to not only revive XIV, but turn it into an amazing experience that's still going. He's the biggest reason I haven't completely written off SquareEnix as a developer.
I know that remark is old. I was one of the people that actually played FFXIV 1.0. And it's not just Forspoken being a flop. It's an entire physics engine that they made themselves and only used for TWO games. (FFXV and Forspoken). And then there's Crystal Dynamics and the failure that was Marvel's Avengers. They may have finally sold off CD, but the absolute failure of Avengers is still a red mark on their ledger.
On the topic of Final Fantasy XIV- another failure to this degree will likely destroy the company
Was that a lie, or did XIV's amazing turnaround give them leeway again? Either way, their executives haven't learned shit.
Edit: oh hey, they're firing the president. MAYBE they'll course correct?
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