• Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Use a different pool where people aren’t pissing in them. They exist.

    There are plenty of other games that don’t pull this shit. Play them instead.

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      9 months ago

      First they did it at EA, but I didn’t say anything because I don’t play EA games. Then they did it at Ubisoft, but I didn’t say anything because I don’t play Ubisoft games. Then they did it at Blizzard, but I didn’t say anything because I don’t play Blizzard games. Then they did it at fromsoft games, but I didn’t say anything because I don’t play fromsoft games. Then they did it at supergiant games, but I didn’t say anything because I don’t play their games.

      Then they did it at every other fucking company because it was industry standard.

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        9 months ago

        Then they did it at every other fucking company because it was industry standard.

        All you’ve listed are the big publishers. Of course THEY are going to do it. They are publicly traded company’s where they need to draw blood from a stone and pull out as much value as possible to appease their shareholders.

        You’re absolutely wrong about every company doing this. It sounds like your only experience is AAA titles.

        Play some indie games and you’ll see the difference. Significantly better designed games, built from passion, and without all the bullshit you see with AAA games.

        Like I said find a better pool where people aren’t pissing in them. They exist.

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      9 months ago

      In fairness to the complaints, there are fewer and fewer good clean pools, and they tend to be the less-and-less awesome ones.

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          9 months ago

          I didn’t say that there are no good games. But genres have been drowned in these microtransaction games enough that it has become disruptive. I find myself sometimes playing games that are in many ways inferior to older games because they are trying to be low-budget disruptors in a market where the high budgets are largely “filled with urine” as it were.

          Look at a few companies’ recent “people are just going to have to get used to subscriptions/microtransactions” attitudes. It’s going the same way television has gone. One cannot pretend in good faith overall quality in entertainment is not going down for reasons that the decisionmakers know to be hurting the products.