Just feel like I should at least add two more things here:
Storing information do their customers as plaintext data, then getting hacked and losing all that information (infamous PSN hack);
Releasing a portable console that cost between 250 and 300€, promising support for it then 2 years in, give up on it, never officially tell customers, but have one of your higher execs tell the press said console is a great "accessory" for the PS4.
This is why I don't personally buy Sony hardware.
I want to switch to Linux and I would love to game on it daily, but just like so many people, software incompatibility is holding me onto Windows.
In my case, it's Parsec that I need, because I game a lot with friends who live in other countries. And unfortunately, Steam's remote play together feature is very broken on Linux (I remember even filing bug reports about it when I was daily driving Linux two-ish years ago.
Part of me is very interest in adding this to my retro setup.
The other part of me knows that I bought the Analogue Pocket and the updates and communication from Analogue are really bad (despite all the device can do) which honestly is a no-no when you pay as much as you do for their stuff
As a Portuguese, I'm quite proud of this tho I think we can still do better (or at least find a way to not get price gauged).
I was in a week-long vacation in the island of Madeira recently and was shocked by how many solar and wind farms they had, no to mention the energy generated by the sea around it. It was astonishing and at least restored my faith in my countrymen, just a bit.
I feel like the key word here is resignation. Platinum has changed from its early days and so has the quality of its output (Babylon's Fall; Astral Chain, which I loved everything about but the gameplay). It is possible that because of the capital injection/investment by Tencent, Kamiya doesn't have the same creative freedom/pull to make the games he wants anymore.
Unless he speaks up we will never know, and I doubt he will. Can't wait to see what's next for him tho.
I would honestly rather have FES than Portable, but considering they are starting from scratch there is absolutely no reason they couldn't have gotten the FES content, shove in the FemMC option and do it.
...unless the endgame is DLC, of course.
I find this fascinating, in a non-ironic way. Thank you very much OP!
My point is they shouldn't be the ones doing the auditing (or at least ordering it), it should be an outside source doing it (in this case, I guess a government entity? Or something independent from LMG anyhow).
I'll gladly admit to being a cynic, but that's because I've worked in similar work environments, quit for very similar reasons and saw nothing being done too. So it's a sore spot for me too. I can easily see my own bias in this situation.
In any case, we'll have to wait and see how it pans out. Hopefully for the best is what matters in the end.
My point is that when you are the one ordering an investigation on yourself, usualyl the results are bound to be highly skewed towards what you want.
I've seen my government recently do this in a pretty big corruption case that would have made heads roll, as well as a couple other private entities I can think of who have hired "outside investigators" to investigate themselves only to go like what I said.
I'm obviously open to being proven wrong in this case, but the track record of such things isn't very positive.
Sorry I wasn't very clear, I just didn't want to make my comment too big.
The end result will likely be something like: "We have investigated ourselves and found that we are blameless of any wrongdoing". Which is usually how these things end up.
Also, weird to not see them saying they'll reach out to Madison to get the story from her, but I guess that might be one of those obvious things so not mentioned. I hope.
This post should be pinned. I went in not liking her because to be she came off on camera as unlikable (giving you this context so you know my mindset going in to the read).
By the end, I was sickened, disgusted and appalled at the treatment she got. I have obviously unsubbed. I was going to wait this out to see how LMG solved this but fuck them. I wish her all the best and as swift a recovery as possible.
The saddest thing is, reading that post, you can tell exactly when she's quoting linus even when she doesn't mention him.
It's fine Vanillaware, we'll keep pirating and emulating your games and play them anyway.