John Walker's discussions

You are correct in your supposition. The reactions I’ve had to such matters have been more vitriolic and concerning than on any other subject. Read more

It’s almost as if they put in the bare minimum effort! Read more

The idea that you think Kotaku does anything to gain favour with publishers is so laughable. We’re a bunch of people, and we write what we’re interested in writing, and most of the time that sees us put on publisher blacklists. You think we’re trying to win over *BLIZZARD*?! Fuck me. Read more

I can assure you that you’ve been told absolute rubbish. At this point I’m mostly still playing to see if I’ll ever hit a point where it suggests I spend money. I’m lvl 60, Paragon 15, in a Dark Clan, and finding it’s offering me more to do each day than I have time for. Read more

Please retract your digusting and utterly unfounded accusation that Mike would take money to write positively about a game. What a damn foolish and stupid thing to say.  Read more

But I, personally, have had some good fun playing this game. So it absolutely does merit that description in at least one sense. Which is part of my point here. Read more

I admire your principled stance. Read more

But the opinions don’t run counter to my own. Like the article you didn’t read says, I really don’t know what is the right take on this. And no one has cancelled me, so far as I know. I FEEL like I’m still here. Read more

I see that. I just don’t understand how people playing the stuff that comes before all that bit, and then quit, are making a difference to those end-game whales? Read more

I think the people who win vasts amounts of money would disagree. But cool, yes, your rationale is consistent and I respect that. Read more

I mean, you’re replying to an article that says it would like to see these entire business models regulated out of existence. Read more

Sorry, I don’t follow this at all. If I play but don’t pay, I’m encouraging someone else to pay colossal amounts of money that they wouldn’t pay if I weren’t playing? How do you get there? Read more

Well, you’re sort of only repeating what this article says. Am I actually endorsing it, or am I saying, “Most people can just get some fun here and don’t need to be so violently judged for it.”? Read more

You can... just download it and play it right now. Read more

Yes, I agree, that sucks. Read more

You COULD say that, but you’d be wrong, and pretty rude if you did. I couldn’t give a shit how many slideshows someone wants. Like I said, I figured it would be the nicer option for presenting this collection of games. Oddly, I didn’t tell a completely pointless lie. Read more

You’re obviously a very cross person, but given it’s going to have specs better than most handheld emus that already play the formats I mention fine, it’d be really weird if it didn’t. So, yes, safe to say. Read more

Yup, I bought directly from AYN, and it’s charged now. Read more

It’s an Android gaming handheld. You can use it to play all your Android games. Read more

That’s my point here! This is the first time I’ve seen them working on a handheld. And yes, obviously I did play on the device, and in the text described how simple they were to get working. And I’m VERY quick to gripe about how awful emulation guides and instructions are, as if written only for other people who… Read more