Enough about racism and transgender for me for a little bit.
Anyone think videogames are steering in a bad direction? Singleplayer games are a legitimate product, that can be sold about once, exchanged with others even. The market is pushing for more and more multiplayer only and online service required.
Selling legitimate products is oldschool. EA wants to sell you skinner boxes, where you are compelled to outspend your fellow peer. Spending money on ideas that are far removed from acquiring an actual product worth money. Spending loads of money on something the rest of the working world doesn’t give a remote shit about.
I can’t even play Runescape anymore. Everything is buy, buy buy… that’s fine if they need to do this to survive, but I’m literally too poor to afford it, so their illusion of being an accessible game children can get into is out the window.
Instead of setting up a system where people have to continuously pay for one game, set up a system where you can continually make more games for what people pay.
I’m not even mad for myself. I got riled up by Youtube. In my next year of life I’ll probably play a thousand hours of Digimon Cyber Sleuth by myself. Oh, even Digimon has a worthless MMORPG, can’t blame them for trying, I’d rather blame the pioneers of the phenomena.
Videogames are cool, but they’re not a human necessity. Any human with paper and a marker, or rocks and a pond can make fun for themselves, without shelling out 60$ a hit, 10$ a month for service, 7$ every lootbox, 3$ for some pixelated gems.
There is times where extra content is worth some money. For Injustice i happily payed extra bucks for more characters, but I didn’t pay extra money for the remote chance of gaining an extra character.
