Seriously...

Fuck Epic Games Store.
Fuck Deep Silver.
Fuck Ys Net.
Fuck Shenmue III.
Fuck crowd-sourcing/crowd-funding/whatever the hell you want to call it.
Fuck video game exclusives, timed or otherwise, especially to worse-than-useless store clients I will never use.
Fuck potentially good games being ruined, at least for me, for shitty, stupid, tangential-to-the-game-itself reasons.
Fuck the modern video game industry.
Fuck disingenuous, dishonest, nigh-fraudulent (if not, perhaps, actually fraudulent), money-grubbing, hubristic shitheads.

This isn't the first time that I've decided to forego buying and playing a game that I had been extremely hyped about playing, at least prior to the surge of superfluous, extraneous dumbshit related to said game, and... well, I was about to say "and it probably won't be the last, either," but, no, I think at this point it probably will be the last, because I very seriously doubt that I will ever become even remotely as enthusiastic about any given new video game in the same way that I once was with Diablo III and Mass Effect 3 and Shenmue III, before those games went to shit for asinine reasons mostly unrelated to the actual games themselves...

...and that's actually kind of sad and depressing to contemplate, honestly.

(For reference, even though it should be, you know, right there below this post... at least if you're viewing this post on my main page anyway. If not, then, well, there's the link. >_>;)

Another reason why gamer controversies are allowed to spin out of control...

Random moron on forum: "Durr, I'm just gonna slink into this here thread about <insert controversy here> and ask why people think <insert controversy here> is actually such a big deal. I mean, I'm going to pretend like I don't know anything about it and ask that isn't it really just gamers being buttmad entitled dicks as usual, hurr?"

Response to random moron on forum: "Well, here is an extensive list of valid reasons why <insert controversy here> is legit and why you probably should not support <company causing the controversy>."

Random moron on forum: "TL;DR amirite? Herp, I'm not reading all that shit. Instead, I will merely make a lame, unfunny joke about 'walls of text' or some shit and continue to disingenuously concern troll about how I don't think <insert controversy here> is actually anything newsworthy and about how people need to just get over themselves and quit being buttmad entitled dicks, derp. Because, after all, I was never seriously seeking an answer, you know, I just wanted to stir shit up and shill for <company causing the controversy>, durkadurr."