Beware of gamers developing games. Too often you find them preferring their own game play style, ramping up difficulty, no bones thrown to casual players, and so forth. Then it gets defended as "by real games for real gamers" or something like that.

I get a sneaky suspicion this might fall into that category. They've got a "vision" of what they want, and damn the paying customers who say differently.

I mean isn't this part of the whole reason kickstarter games are popular, because they're supposed to listen to customers which is the opposite of what the big name game publishers do?

5 year olds are expensive. They have much higher medical expenses, as their parents are taking them too the doctor every few weeks for vaccinations, ear infections, sniffles. A twenty year old who never goes to the doctor and who is satisfied sharing a studio with three roommates and eating every night at Taco Bell is the best bargain.

An MS cert does not trump a good attendance star from grammar school.

I worry that this poor kid is being funneled into a bleak and dreary career path too soon in life.

I remember back in the 90s I asked the only IT guy at our small company who was Novell certified a very basic question about netware protocol as I had never used PCs before, and his response was "sorry, we didn't cover that in class."

It's a certificate. Does any employer actually treat these as important for anything other than grunt jobs?

Yes, the government could save a huge amount of money here on buying labels by only marking those few games which are not sexist.

I don't even have twitter or follow it. The hashtag only got the mainstream crowd to notice, whereas these issues had been building for a long time before the hashtag.

So, it's like movies that want opening weekend numbers but don't care at all if they collapse after that?

Started college in 81, and we had USCD Pascal & p-system. On a basic Apple II we had a full editor, compiler, debugger rolled together, a networked file system, and a self-paced instructional system to learn to program (with human proctors to grade you after every section though). Add another decade though and the state of computing actually seemed worse overall.

The history of computing actually seems to go backwards at times with technology and/or software becoming more primitive as time passes.

Why give them benefit of the doubt? This is ubisoft, they've had crappy games for their entire existence, they've been screwing up their PR for most of it at well. I'm seriously baffled that they still have customers.

I only have one PC game with mantle support, and it made performance worse. FPS slightly higher but with stuttering. Maybe on a high end system it does better, but on a high end system where your fps is over 50 then it won't matter anyway.

They are sort of irrelevant for the average gamer. DX9 is incredibly popular because it's available. Maybe the high end games with expensive systems don't see it that way, but for people on a sub-$500 computer either they don't see a performance improvement with higher versions or it hurts their performance.

There's also mounting evidence that the bigger the hype the poorer the game. In the last decade there's probably only a handful of "AAA" titles that I'd rate above a C.

I haven't even finished Simcity 1.