@gamingdevil800: The resentment was there; it just needed one particularly bad cash-grab to bust the floodgates open.

It's like 1914; the two alliances were basically at each others' throats, so even if there was no attempt on Franz Ferdinand, the odds were very good that something else would cause war.

@SinisterSlay: Good; we both know how mobile games tend to suck compared to PC and console and handheld games. Mobiles should have app stores, not crapp stores.

@videogameninja: I was about to post that they should just ban all microtransactions, but I see that's been covered.

@Thanatos2k: If it's not fixable, it's just not fixable. It's the same reason why, if the first three hours of a game suck, people don't go "Oh, but I started playing game X, so I *have* to finish it!".

That said, many companies do fall for the sunk cost fallacy when the have an unfixable game-in-progress -- but obviously not every company does (which is why canceled games exist -- and I don't mean "canceled because the company went under"). Nintendo's a smart company, so they'll likely either find a way to fix it or cancel it; there's a reason there's no Mario 2006, no Duke Mario Forever, and no No Mario's Sky!

If you think the labo is impressive, just wait until you see what cats can do to cardboard.

Eddie, you can get the shirtless Mario outfit in multiple stores, not just in cascade kingdom (I finally afforded it -- and bought it -- in the snow kingdom, ironically enough).

@Renunciation: Given how well NES Classic and SNES Classic were received, I imagine more retro gaming (whether consoles or arcade) will be attempted.

And we believe in EA's executives getting canned. NEXT!

If he didn't even know about the reputation of video game movies until after he finished filming, it's likely he didn't know about the "video game curse" which he supposedly avoided until after he finished filming.

Yes, it's possible the movie would do well, but...

@Pyrosa: Go read about the eighteenth and twenty-first amendments sometime.