Free is necessary, that is why I opened my own microbrewery.

As someone who has lived in the Southwest for the past 20 odd years, I wholeheartedly agree with respect to the attention to environmental detail that Rockstar has given this game. They have created an entertaining escape through a beautiful setting and an interesting plot, which in my book is more than enough to be a success as a game. There are certainly plenty of nits to pick as far as gameplay issues, although (for me) these aren't so detrimental as to warrant anything but a thumbs up for the title.

The game is free, so nobody bought anything as far as a gameplay or pricing model. The only thing they could have bought into was an in-game item that does a specific thing and still does that same thing as promised today.

I don't see what you would sue them for, changing the prices of some unnecessary in-game items after you agreed in the EULA that they could change things in their game, which they are allowing you to play for free, whenever they wanted? Go ahead and try that.

I thought one of the points of patent law was to create a library of knowledge.

That was the point of patents but they don't work that way today. Today they are used as a device to stop competition.

Falcon

Gameplay is something we haven't figured out for non-handicapped players. My gf was complaining about a game, all movement is controlled by using the mouse. Move it forward to walk, move sideways to turn, restore to where it was to stop turning.

If you're disabled and would rather use keyboards, it's not an option in this game. If you're not disabled, it's still not an option.

Ensuring all controls are programmable would go a long way to helping everyone, not just the disabled (or just my gf, which would improve my standard of living).

Early in the process, someone decides the game should be controlled this way, and it affects a lot of other decisions. You can't make a WII game that suddenly requires a keyboard to solve a puzzle, or switch weapons fast enough to defeat a boss, so the gameplay sits on those decisions.

Is it possible to lock onto a target and walk around? Or do you omit locking and strafe instead, making the user strafe and rotate simultaneously to avoid being hit while remaining on target? Are the fire and strafe/lock buttons ones you can hold at the same time (preferably different hands) or do you have to hold both the triangle and x buttons while pushing L2? These things need to be abstracted away so anyone can play any game with any input device. A NES controller with USB hack on the end, or mind reading, or voice, or keyboard, or mouse plus anything else, should be equally possible. Not equally successful as I've pointed out, but possible.

If one particular board or puzzle requires certain faculties, that should be clearly labeled (parkinson's might cause problems playing because the aiming system sucks, blindness might leave out details because it's supposed to be a surprise reveal but we didn't include subtitles because no one's talking).

I will still be using XP when Windows 8 is released.

You count bringing an OS to a small handheld device as an improvement for the telephone market, but you don't consider it an advancement for the OS market as well?

If you cherrypick advances to point out and ignore the others, cars haven't advanced in 50 years, they are still using the internal combustion paradigm.

Not that this matters at all. Unless you are using windows 95 you are a total hypocrite.