No it wasn't. We were taking about streams monopoly status and epic being one of the few alternatives.
YOU were the one trying to deflect the conversation into business viability. Which your entire side tangent really only reinforces how obscene the monopoly hold off stream is, that trying to break into the market is so expensive.
I have zero interest in that either. Those specific characters were the whole appeal to that show.
Well yeah, fighting for market share against an entrenched monopoly isn't cheap. That's not a reason to cheer on the monopoly though.
It's limited time, but also the selection these last few years has felt very uninspired. Everything is extremely derivative and been done to death.
There was a mass consolidation of developers/publishers recently, on top of further extended development cycles that has really limited any kind of variety we might have seen.
All retail establishments utilize loss leaders. It's not some underhanded duplicitous tactic, it's just a common business strategy
I'm not sure what you're responding to, but it wasn't anyone I said
There's talk of a reboot, and that's not what anyone wanted at all....
Which of those countries has the word America in their name? Because there's nothing else you can call people from the US. Every other country in the Americas has a different name unrelated to the continents.
And before you try to say it, people are never called by a form of the [Type of government] bit of the "of [Country name]"
Some of them are, which is even more confusing.