Dame-Armiger Kali Ranya ⚔️🐈4d ago
I will never understand this feature of consumer gamer culture
Why does every game have to be a Forever Game with content patches or new DLCs or whatever
What's so awful about a game you buy, play to conclusion, and then maybe replay or mod if you feel like it
Why must every game on the market be potentially The Last Game You'll Ever Need To Play, or it's not worth buying
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Show threadzivi
@kaliranya the way some gamers /derog revolt when they dont get the steady trickle of New Content that theyr apparently entitled to, just, lmao
Apr 2 at 9:21amWeb
Show threadRipp_ 4d ago
@zaire @kaliranya I think I blame Minecraft for this
Show threadzivi4d ago
@Ripp_ @kaliranya its so much bigger than that
you can also blame literally every mmorpg game for example
plenty of live service games around in all sorts of genres actually
Show threadzivi4d ago
@Ripp_ @kaliranya and like its very cool if a good game gets updated and notably improved continiously but also if its essentially a complete experience already there is no valid reason to feel entitled to regular content updates like that lol the devs will do it if they feel like it and thats it
Show threads10n4d ago
@zaire @Ripp_ @kaliranya
Well, it is what it is. A notable amount of today's gamers has been raised on (a.k.a. brainwashed by) games-as-a-service, where players are constantly milked to pay for new content.
I can see where this clashes with the 90ies mindset of buying a game once and then playing the same game as long as you enjoy it. Guess we're just getting old.
Show threadDame-Armiger Kali Ranya ⚔️🐈4d ago
@zaire @Ripp_ The rise of live service gaming has been a horror show to us old people in several ways, aye. The idea that you can never own a game, only rent it. That you can be banned from play for modding. That someday the servers will close shop, and no one can play the game ever again. (Props to e.g. City of Heroes for breaking that mold!) And indeed, the cultural assumption leaking out from live service game communities to spawn bad reviews of buy-once games.
Show threadRipp_ 4d ago

@kaliranya @zaire on the note I have been playing factorio recently, which why it did have early access it was also a out once and done game once done
And then later they released big expansion

Very good