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Nathan Grayson
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Kotaku senior reporter. Beats: Twitch, streaming, PC gaming. Writing a book about streamers tentatively titled "STREAMERS" to be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster in the future.

Play who ever you want how ever you want XD you pay for the game main who ever XD Read more

I feel for people who wanna play Hanzo, this sort of behavior by others is why I quit playing Overwatch despite having 300 hours in it. I would get some of the most vitriolic and hateful speech thrown at me simply because I wanted to play Sombra, and occasionally people would actually throw games because I chose her. Read more

For several years, now, my cousin has been seriously involved in Ultimate Frisbee. Not only is the sport really fun, it is one of the rare sports out there were the main league has men and women compete together (there are also gender specific leagues, but I understand that they are very minor in comparison). I think Read more

What? No. Absolutely not. The whole ‘split men and women’ thing might have some shred of basis in older sports, but that is questionable to begin with, and largely seen as a power grab. This particular instance is transphobic and reprehensible, and if I am honest, I am not surprised that it happened in an e-sport Read more

I was a fairly high ranking Smite player and Mortal Kombat 9 (and related FGC) player pre-transition. After coming out as trans and seeing the toxicity of the competitive world I dropped any hopes of competing, if the hate wasn’t directed at me it was directed towards other trans women in the community at large. I Read more

Well, reap what you sow. You make a channel out of messing with people, get messed with yourself. I mean, swatting is never cool, or shit like that, but you’re responsible for your presence in your own medium. Read more

...given that IRL is unexplored territory. Read more

I don’t know what it is, but the thrill of loot boxes burns out for me very quickly. When HOTS 2.0 launched, I power leveled a bunch of characters I hadn’t been using and got some 30 boxes in a weekend. For those two days I was entranced. Come Monday, their dark hold on me was relinquished.
Do they have a longer Read more

If this hurts G2A, then I’m all for it. That site is full of criminals, and run by criminals. Read more

Hm, I like to stockpile items on sale as gifts so I can giveaway to friends. Like, I’ve probably given 50 copies for Portal/Portal 2 to people who hadn’t played it yet Read more

Not being able to stock pile gifts is crap. I do it every sale. I don’t know how this has a damn thing to do with G2A since you don’t get CD keys when have gifts in your inventory. Read more

That’s pretty cool, win-win for both parties involved. Read more

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Valve is making games... but not in the same sense gamers think. The players are steam users and the games are steam updates and new additions. The high scores are found by data mining users and studying usage trends and ultimately maximizing revenue. Read more

Seems relevant

Glad they’re investing in new staff and training, because that’s the only thing that matters here. You can tell us all how great your service is and how much shorter the wait times are, but the only way that can be confirmed is if I actually ever receive a response from a human being. The more human beings helping Read more

Might I suggest a “Future Patch Notes” tag? I doubt Blizzard is going to let this stand for very long, if only because of the broken cooldown. Read more