So, this will be handed out to people outside the US free of charge, I assume? They're not seriously going to region lock the theme and DLC, right?

"The Hot Coffee mod is still available, but for how much longer remains to be seen."

It will be available forever. If Take2 takes it down, then people will start distributing it elsewhere. By telling the mod creator to remove it, they've just advertised the mod and now people will download it en masse. The Streisand Effect will come into play.

Hopefully customers won't abuse this, seeing people could download the install files for games and refund them. It's a great policy to have, but completely open to people ruining it for the rest of us.

I just looked at the CDC site, which was updated yesterday, and it said there was about 14 confirmed cases in the US, not including the people on the cruise ship.

All these companies pulling out seems rather over the top.

They're already doing a sequel? The last one just came out, lol.

She's dressed more like Lara Croft than the actual (modern) Lara Croft.

Activision/Blizzard are really trying to get that "Worst Company of 2020" award, aren't they? Can they beat EA?

This is precisely why microtransactions are never going away and are only going to get worse. Even if people like me don't support them, there are always plenty of others who will willingly burn their cash on rubbish free to play games that are designed to make you spend money.

Nope, as said, it's too reminiscent of when Steam and Bethesda tried to sell Skyrim mods. I'm fine with optional donations to modders, and think that should be implemented on mod pages so that you can send them a few dollars if you want, but to gate mods behind a paywall just isn't right.

Mods should remain free, do donations instead. This is a dangerous road to go down, and could do irreparable damage to the modding scene. Imagine a future where you want a 100 different mods, but most of them are paid. No thanks, if this is successful, then other companies will start doing it too.

Well, crunch happens in every industry in order to meet deadlines. With something more involved like games, it happens more, it's just how it is. All that needs to change is to try and make it more comfortable for workers.

Getting rid of it would effectively mean games would either need to be completely dumbed down with no innovation, or customers would have to wait years for things to be released.