Nominating EA for “worst company” always has been ridiculous. Gamers need to touch some grass.

Sorry to hear that, good riddance. German army‘s reputation is bad enough that I‘ve never faced any of this fortunately.

especially conservative people will treat you like a second class citizen, a coward, lazy, hippie or a traitor.

what country is this?

This is what made me bounce off of it.

Love this series by Leone.

That led me to think, Maybe games need at least a bit of violence.

I mean that thought led to the production of a true valuable gem, but definitely not

Did they with the other settings?

Even someone who never played a video game can see and feel a difference between, say, an Analogue Pocket and some generic SBC inside a Game Boy-esqe chassis. This same person, or you apparantly and me, will not automatically be willing to pay extra for that. It’s boutique.

People who’d also by hardware by Analogue.

Then you’re not in the target group.

Yes. It‘s basic theory. Everyone does it all the time and you‘ll always find a customer/user who will say that some aspect of quality has been reduced too much.

Laziness implies that the workers who make the actual games are lazy which is obviously not true, unfair and audacious. Just use the right words.

To optimise project parameters.

It’s not laziness, that’s always been a stupid oversimplification. The workers work hard on your entertainment product. It‘s a business decision.

Ads are fine when hosting a service. Just use an unobtrusive provider (like Carbon for tech ads).