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77·2 days ago
I have cursed the fridge with life and blood.
98·3 days agoDo this:
Hope this helps!
5·7 days agoSeconded. Also, acknowledging the reality that change is slow.
Some people think burning down the system is the way to go, but rarely talk about what comes after. We have a system currently, albeit shitty af, but changing it will take much less work and time than building one from the ground up. Not to mention the amount of suffering that would be caused by the turmoil that would follow a governmental collapse.
Zohran Mamdani and other Democratic Socialists have proved that it is possible to co-op the Democratic party. Now, it is just a matter of like-minded people putting in the work to organize.
Time will tell if our ability to organize changes, but as of right now, we have hope.
2·9 days agoWith that being your stance, I hope you stop enjoying every single thing you currently are. Because there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
You can probably still touch grass without feeling guilty, actually you probably should anyway.
you were and are directly incentivizing this behavior by not having a fucking spine and continuing to patronize these companies despite their shitty behavior
Way to judge somebody you know nothing about!
I dropped the game a while back BECAUSE of their refusal to learn from their mistakes. That doesn’t make me stop wishing that they would choose to save their IP before it died.
I am aware that it is a thing, I just don’t see why you are insisting that, because of the model Warframe operates under, the developers are evil.
I think they are doing 10X better at putting the money back into the game and also using it to support the community aspects than any other live service game out there. I believe they have worked hard to make that happen and deserve props for not fucking over their fanbase like other developers, such as Bungie, do.
So, the way you see it, people shouldn’t engage with things they enjoy if there is a greedy entity on the other side?
Do you know how many hobbies that covers?
Because short term profit milking is extremely shortsighted and as is evidenced by LITERALLY the article we are commenting under.
You can play the game and not spend a penny on MTX to get the premium currency, this is why I said look it up.
So, the investors are happy, the players are happy, but the developers are actually evil because “dark patterns”?
Do you think there might be a reason why people continued to come back to that game and play it? Maybe that it might be fun?
It is possible to enjoy something and acknowledge the fact that it could be much better.
I would recommend looking into the development history of Warframe. That, IMO, is the best example of GAAS that works for both the studio and the players.
Are you trying to make a point or just trolling? The only thing I can think of is you are trying to make the case that it is the fault of the players and not the studio that the game didn’t survive.
That mistake? You might want to take a look at recent Bungie news if you think that their mistakes didn’t cost them their fan base.
The two off the top of my head would be No Man’s Sky and R6 Seige.
No Man’s Sky: https://imkingginger.substack.com/p/the-decade-long-journey-of-no-mans
Not sure how R6 is doing currently, but at one point they had a decent resurgence after they finally doubled down on improving the game.
These don’t match the exact scenario of Bungie, but they work as evidence that a studio CAN create something great out of something mediocre.
Correct, but as is the case with Warframe, which has so many more premium currency purchases you CAN make than D2, it is possible to have a live service game and also make something fantastic that players can enjoy for decades.
God forbid a gamer enjoy playing a video game and hope a studio learns from their mistakes.
The enemy cannot know what you are doing, if you yourself do not know what you are doing. ~Don Tzu