Don’t you know? This kind of quality is impossible for poor little AAA studios to keep up! We really should just settle for tech demos. :(
Well there is Hope with games like Baldurs Gate 3 and most indie titles
Indie is the way to go. The number of times I’ve been disappointed with “AAA” games is ludicrous.
You just have to be VERY careful with buying them day 1. I mostly just wait for a “complete edition” or “goty edition” or smth and THEN wait til that is cheap.
This is exactly the way to do it. Well, it’s exactly the way I do it. Yeah I have to wait a little bit but I’d rather have the full experience available, and a discount is a nice bonus, when I start a game than buy it piecemeal.
Yes, been loving BG3 but my best experiences with games in recent years have all been indie, from Outer Wilds that made me completely rethink what a game experience is meant to be, to Vampire Survivors that tickled all the right parts of my brain into making me spend hours watching pixels flash on screen in the most mind-numbingly addictive way. Indie devs really seem to be carrying forward the soul of gaming that larger gaming companies have lost, the exceptions being so rare that Baldur’s Gate 3 is getting lauded for basically meeting what would have been normal expectations for a AA title in the early 2000’s
Baldur’s gate 3 is a work of art.
I live, breathe, and sleep video games but this is a problem we made for ourselves. You don’t have to buy the latest and greatest games from million dollar companies. Heck, you don’t have to buy any games at all. Stop buying crap and they’ll stop making as much of it. Go play something else or, and I say this as someone who’s currently designing homebrew for a TTRPG in another tab, go touch some grass.
Damn straight, the amount of times I’ve heard “It’s probably gonna be shit, oh well. Still gonna pre order cause of this [dogshit] skin for the gun that won’t be meta for longer than a week cause it’s so busted.”
I saw this coming back in 2013 and have been trying to convince people that it’s going to be a problem and get worse as time goes on.
Well LOOK AT ME NOW, WENDELL!!!
Like, the enshittification of IT is basically over-engineering imo.
My unpopular opinion is that DLC is not, in and of itself, bad. If you don’t want it, don’t buy it! If you do want it - great, no problem! In a world without DLC, you either have to buy the whole game, or not. If you tried it and didn’t like it, you have wasted the whole price of the game. Whereas in a DLC system, you’ve spent the price of the base game, but that’s effectively just a fraction of the total game price. You risked less.
What is a problem - and what I think most people who think they’re mad about DLC are actually mad about - is charging a price that isn’t commensurate with the amount of content you get. If a full game is “worth” $60, and it’s split up into a $20 base game and 4 $10 DLCs - great, everyone is (or, should be!) happy. But if the publisher charges $60 for $20-worth of base game and then charges for DLC on top, you should be pissed - but you should still be pissed about that mispricing even if the DLC didn’t exist. Yes, DLC is the reason why that pricing strategy is adopted - but that doesn’t mean that DLC itself is inherently bad. There are possible implementations that are not flawed.
Fuck unfinished titles that are priced at almost a hundred at launch; I’d rather wait a year or two and buy the same thing for 15 EUR.
Edit: and yes, if you buy those at launch, you are part of the problem.
True story. Video games have gotten so expensive that I gave up FPS’s because the virtual bullets are starting to cost more than the real ones.
Gamepass ultimate and you have no problems
I was just looking at that. The only thing I don’t like is that you can’t purchase a yearly sub.
You can though
Is CoD making you pay for ammo packs now?
Lol, not yet. Hopefully, Activision isn’t watching this thread because that’s definitely something they’d try.🙃
Blockchain bullets. Every bullet is on a blockchain so you’ll know who you put your hard earned money into.
Lol, I could actually own my bullets!!! Or just a jpg and a receipt. 😉
Ahh, well that’s a bit of a relief. Just to give you a chuckle, due to If The Emperor had a Text to Speech, that game’s name will forever be “Cawl o Doodie” to me
same. I have over a thousand games on my steam account and a humble bundle subscription.
I can wait years to pick up the all DLC included gold game of the year edition for 5 bucks on sale.
only time i ever get games on release anymore is if a friend gifts it to me, or if it comes as part of a bundle with new hardware (Like how I got Starfield with my new GPU)
Why buy?
>Horse Armor DLC
To each their preferences, if people want to play “AAA” games or w/e that’s their choices. If you’re sick of the way they sell though I suggest trying something else, there are plenty of very good games out there that don’t shamelessly take their customers for piggy banks.
I think most of us are sick of others buying shit AAA games and then complaining about the expense of DLC and the bugs and what not. So I would modify what you said to be if you want to, go ahead, but stop complaining about the shit you should have expected.
I miss expansions. The command & conquer expansions were always better than the base game by far.
Last true expansion I remember is Blood and Wine from 2016.
Factorio will get a old-school expansion in the future. The base game is very complete already, so they really have to think of something else that really expands on the current gameplay , but they’ve been working on it since the release of the main game so it will be good.
I am so hyped for that. My chores and sleep schedule are not
Same! Even though not much is known yet, these developers have their priorities right to deliver a finished game.
@AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml hello there! new fff just dropped (or yesterday to be specific)
Thank you :)
Victoria 3
You get the body free, but pay to spin a wheel to get the other parts. Also, there is a chance of getting copies of parts you already have.
Nowadays you have to subscribe to the car battlepass. Then you have drive the car for 100miles each to unlock all the rewards for 100 levels.
It’s the same reward everyone else who subscribed is getting, so I hope you don’t mind your car looking like everyone else’s.
Oh, and all the rewards will be just bodies and paint. The wheels still cost extra.
This is why I am hesitant to get excited for any new games. I’ve been waiting for Payday 3 for a long time and I was excited but I’m concerned that the base game will be lacking and DLC will be almost necessary. I mean they’re already selling three DLX packs and the games not even out. Yeah DLX kept Overkill alive while everyone was sueing everyone else over the IP rights of Payday 2, but now that it’s settled and we’re getting a third game, I don’t expect anything else.
2023: Collectors edition comes with a steelcase and a download code
Diablo collector’s didn’t even include the game
