Roper

1. adj. Any game(product) having the quality of being sold based on the renown of its developer for prior great achievements in their field only to have that preexisting good will thrown away so that said developer can go to Korea, gorge themselves on sushi, and then turn themselves into a mustachioed, karaoke-singing, beer swilling, hog-sweating, festering bag-of-shit replica of Jabba-the-Hut while on the dime of their paying subscribers and founders.

2. adj. Any game(product) having the quality of being billed as gone-gold which is released, not as a beta build, but as an alpha build in which a monthly fee is charged to receive "ongoing content".

3. adj. Any game(product) having the quality of being sold as having two modes of play in which support of one of the modes has been forsaken by the developer because a subscription fee is not charged for it after the purchase price of the box has been payed.

4. n. A flippant or uncaring remark given by the manufacturer of a product to angry consumers when said product, which was advertised as having two fully-functional modes, has support for one mode discontinued due to lack of "income stream".

Ex 1. "Hey man. You hear about that new game coming out? It's supposed to be made by the team that brought us (insert name of product of choice here)."

"Forget it dude. After their last release nobody believes the hype. They're totally Roper."

Ex 2. "Well they rushed it out the door to make as much money before people caught on. So you just KNEW it was gonna be Roper."

Ex 3. "I can't believe I paid good money for this goddamn box and now they won't even support it so that it's actually what I was promised! This is SO Roper!"

Ex 4. "Damnit! I bought the game because they said they had mutiplayer AND single player! Now they tell me I should just play multiplayer because it's essentially the same!?!? $^$(#@&^$(*#& "

"Lol... whatever dude... They never cared about single player cause it doesn't get them sub fees... You knew it was only a matter of time before they slipped you the Roper."

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