It's always nice to have a reminder just how utterly dense you have to be to end up as EiC of anything involved with gaming. Apparently even when making enumerated points you don't have to be concise and clear! Whod've thunk.

So, let me get this straight. For #1, it's somehow our responsibility to make sense of the needlessly convoluted naming conventions and the often dense product comparisons. Have multi-million dollar hardware companies made it difficult to tell? Well, it's just the consumer's duty to make sense of it anyway! Why? So they can keep doing it, of course! Because on top of paying ridiculous hardware and software prices, we're also obligated to make things easier for THEM. Since if we don't, they might go away or actually learn from their retarded mistakes, and we just can't have that in an industry this non-progressive.

Oh, but your experience in writing has allowed you to masterfully conflate two things to make up for the complete lack of an actual point. It's not expensive if you take the time to learn about hardware differences that the industry has done its best to make as confusing as possible? Well, gee, with that sort of sharp reasoning, it's no wonder you've lasted so long as a writer.

For #2, we get to prove that #1 is more or less you talking out of your ass. Good move, Ms. EiC.

And #3 is the real gem, showing that your position as a videogame writer is wholly proportional to your ignorance and laziness. Why bother to attempt an honest look at the intricacies behind piracy (http://www.qualtality.com/?page_id=74) when you can just wag your finger with some bullshit chide? If you had the slightest fucking clue, then maybe you'd revise that to say "If you charge the equivalent of US$80 for a game in a country where people make an average of $30,000, then you don't get to complain about piracy, ever". But that would be too much to ask, since it might do something as dreadful as inspire you to do some actual fucking work. Instead, warn us that "stealing" from a recession-proof industry who seems to take the RIAA's suicidal tactics as a standard to live up to is "bad karma". OOOOOOOOH. Immortal sin of forcing publishers to come up with a sane business model! Nauuuuuughty!

You're useless.