• Whirlybird
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    1 year ago

    That’s strange because I’ve spent about $15 all up on micro transaction since they became a thing yet I have tens of thousands of hours in live service games and I’ve had a ball.

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      1 year ago

      The fact that you can “play them” without spending money doesn’t change the fact that every single element of every single feature is designed to make you want to spend money, and every interaction with every menu has ads shoved down your face.

      There is exactly one design conceit for live service games, and it’s “rob every player you can blind”. It’s the exact business model of every single one. There are zero exceptions.

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        1 year ago

        Every single element of these games isn’t designed to make you want to spend money 😂. Going by your hate for them along with that terrible comment shows that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

        Almost every single live service game now just has optional cosmetics as the microtransactions. That’s the opposite of what you’re saying.

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          1 year ago

          Just imagine if they included all the stuff you didn’t buy as part of the game instead!

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            1 year ago

            That content wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t a live service game.

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              1 year ago

              Bullshit. There are tons of games with lots of variety that don’t require microtransactions to access.

              Especially ones that are mod friendly so extra cosmetics are free for everyone and doesn’t cost the developer a dime.

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                1 year ago

                Just because some games have certain content on disk doesn’t mean others would. At some stage a game has to be cut for release and is “content complete” for printing. With live service games they continue creating content to sell in-game. With non live service games they don’t.

                If you’re going to bring mods into it then that’s a completely different conversation.