fps4ever
Posts: 1,153 +1,923
I'm not paying anything....never have never will. Not sure where you are getting that idea?
Diablo Immortal earns almost $50 million in its first month, still has lowest user score...
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I'm not paying anything....never have never will. Not sure where you are getting that idea?
Bluescreendeath
Posts: 413 +658
The Pay2Win mechanics hooks you in with casino-gambling tactics and tricks you into thinking it is fun, but after several weeks of playing, you just realize it was a boring repetitive grind that becomes a "chore" where the game is constantly persuading you to spend money on it. Even if you don't spend money on it, you often realize it was more chore than fun.
brucek
Posts: 2,058 +3,301
Horrible news for gamers everywhere. You can bet every major publisher is watching these results closely and factoring them in to their upcoming AAA launches.
I see little we can do to stop the whales from using their purchasing power to change the nature of games from entertainment made to be played to e-peen made to be bought. I'm glad I at least have a long backlog of older games that were made strictly for entertainment, and those are what I will stick with.
Maybe if we're lucky a tiered system will evolve whereby whales are given a "VIP" experience that involves being made to feel as if they are the #1 player on their server (with hopefully all other "players" on those servers actually just being AI NPCs that exist just to feed the whale's e-peen), and everyone else can go back to playing a real game for the fun of it.
Most of us learned fair play and good sportsmanship as young children, add this to the list of all the lessons apparently forgotten over recent decades.
I see little we can do to stop the whales from using their purchasing power to change the nature of games from entertainment made to be played to e-peen made to be bought. I'm glad I at least have a long backlog of older games that were made strictly for entertainment, and those are what I will stick with.
Maybe if we're lucky a tiered system will evolve whereby whales are given a "VIP" experience that involves being made to feel as if they are the #1 player on their server (with hopefully all other "players" on those servers actually just being AI NPCs that exist just to feed the whale's e-peen), and everyone else can go back to playing a real game for the fun of it.
Most of us learned fair play and good sportsmanship as young children, add this to the list of all the lessons apparently forgotten over recent decades.
fps4ever
Posts: 1,153 +1,923
or you know... it reflects reality.
I have been at the point for some time now where I pay more attention to and give games a chance that were review bombed. And most of them were good to very good games that got bombed because a bunch of nerdlings didn't get exactly what they wanted.
WhoCaresAnymore
Posts: 907 +1,453
You are right about that. I've played many games with horrid reviews from professional sites, but were great! I play a game that is fun, not what fits a nerds checklist of features.
Those nerds are giving you better games to play so don't diss them. Without them you would be having Cyberpunk type of launches on every game with half of the content locked behind dlc and regular gameplay would require you to buy loot boxes.
Keeping game studios/publishers in check is not a bad thing. It's like how I call Epic's store "cancer" every time I get a chance to because of their crappy third party exclusivity deals.
guillejp
Posts: 142 +141
Exactly right.
That remark was intended for the person you responded to. He said something like the PVE content can be by-passed by paying.
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