For me, that something was identifiably a frustrating telekinesis power that seemed to always get my projectile stuck on a wall or some other object in front of me when I most needed it to dispatch an enemy. If I wasn’t so close to the end of the game by the time I decided I disliked it, I wouldn’t have finished it. At least Poets of the Fall doing their fake metal band is always a good time.

The question is rarely asked outright, but often times it’s something along the lines of “Supporting more platforms is hard,” to which I would like to push back with, “Do you want to break Steam’s stranglehold on the market, or not?”

I didn’t like Control, so this one in particular doesn’t hurt, but there are so many games that come to GOG months later, and it’s hard to predict which ones are going to make the jump. At this point, I have purged my Steam wishlist, and there are only certain types of games I’m classifying as “must play” and “definitely not coming to GOG”.

The part that everyone knows is being said between the lines with a return to office mandate is that they want their employees to quit so that they don’t have to pay severance. With this voluntary buyout thing to go along with it, they’re quite loudly saying that they want their employees to quit.

I really don’t think it did. By any back of the napkin math anyone can come up with, this game made plenty of money on PlayStation. To me, it looks like Sony covering losses (or even just diminished profits) elsewhere by spreading the bad news around to studios that did well in their own right.