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Genre: Gaming
Date of upload: Sep 26, 2023 ^^
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I have to agree with Asmongold on gamers and developers not having the same goals anymore. Large game companies have the goal of keeping you paying more for a single game, addiction and various forms of manipulation being their prime tools, us players however want to have as much of a good or meaningful experience with our games as possible.
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My experience of the game is that it is breaking the 4th wall into your bank account. It feels like all of the planning and strategy and game design around managing loot and gold they made in the first few expansions, they moved into how they more directly access your bank account. I guess we call that pay to win, but to me, what's wrong with it is that I'm not really in an alternate universe, playing a character any more, I'm just using cash as fuel to drive a sprite around a screen instead. I have to do real-world budget math on in-game experiences, but part of the joy was being able to be a rich character and have successes there, that I wasn't having elsewhere. I could earn and buy things there, and I was therefore not buying things in real life. There was a psychology about wow that use to appeal to me.
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As soon as a company changes from trying to make a great game for players to enjoy to a company trying to make profit, it's over. The passion for the game diminishes and core game developers leave said company, great games are like masterpieces of art and it's very hard to come by true passionate artists and developers to come together to make it happen. It's going to be like this now since the gaming industry is so profitable now, just this cycle.
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I've never worked in game development but i sincerely wonder if the question "what is your favorite video game and why?" or "how often do you enjoy watching or playing video games and which ones?" ever even comes up in interviews at these companies that keep fucking it up. Especially for project leads.
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Would need more details once they decide them and announce, but for WoW I could see a regular BattlePass INSTEAD of the monthly subscription, working ok.. specially if it is optional along with the DLC mini bits.. If it comes in as a mandatory to play at all deal, then it is really just a shift from the monthly sub to a bi-monthly one being faked out as a Pass, or however long they decide to make the length, and not many people will fall for it after all the crap we have seen recently... which will not repopulate the servers like they seem to be wanting to do.. I can see the F2P model revitalizing the servers from a lot of vet players returning, if for nothing more than to revisit some old memories, or see the changes since we last logged in, and that in turn could help bring more newer players in because the servers will not be the ghost towns they became (ok, not exactly ghost town, but try to find a group to team with that did not insist on all members being experts at a given dungeon).. Or at least were when i left myself.. ;) Their biggest problem they had was their greed getting out of control.. Buy Game, Good.. Monthly Sub, ok.. Yearly (or two) Expansions at nearly, or equal to, a new game price, Meh, but really should have been smaller.. Any "services" like changing race, name, look, server, etc at just plain rediculous rates for "service", Not Good.. and they wondered why everyone bailed when they yet again redesigned our whole "way of life" in the game.. How many times did they expect us to redo and relearn our characters before we just threw hands up with it.. The whole gold buying deal they did, i did not have so much a problem with as it got rid of all the damn gold farmers and announcers we had been plagued with.. ;) and it's not like you couldn't buy it before, it just went directly to/from the source now.. :) LOL
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@fabledmelon3535
7 months ago
As I'm getting older, with nearly 30 years of gaming under my belt, instead of trying to fight these companies, I've come to accept that there are going to be companies like Activision Blizzard that try to milk their playerbase for everything they can, and in the process of doing so they treat everyone else as a second class citizen. The only thing we can do is have some fucking self respect, ignore those money hungry titles, act as if they don't exist, and play the gems that do exist like Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, and so on. There is a reason those games have had their monumental, deserved success. Its not even a matter of "voting" with your wallet, its just playing the games that have real passion and dedication behind them - and isn't just a money grabbing scheme.
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