Comment on Deep Rock Galactic roguelike dev says innovation for innovation's sake is too expensive to survive: "We're a studio of 50 people with bills to pay"

PsyKiere@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Delphia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I asked a friend who plays it and he says its good with randoms, but great if you have a crew you regularly game with.

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  • Sciaphobia@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s great either way. It has a good community.

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• JoeBidenUnofficial@crazypeople.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s extremely fun with friends. I’ve got probably 100+ hours in it

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• isyasad@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I personally would not recommend it. I’ve played ~20 hours with friends. Despite being a simple co-op game, it has these seasonal battle passes and multiple currencies that I would expect from something like Fortnite / Call of Duty / pay-to-win mobile games. That’s mostly an aesthetic gripe because it doesn’t directly effect the gameplay, but I’m not a huge fan of the gameplay either. Combat is really imprecise/messy, which I’m sure is the point but I can’t get behind it. May be worth to play with friends, but I would not recommend it solo at all. What I can say I really like though is the 3D map tool for the randomly generated caves 🤤 beautiful 3D map

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  • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All of those “currencies” are free. There is no paid way to get them. You just have to change which season you are playing to get that season’s scrip. There is no pay to win. There is merely paid skin packs

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    • isyasad@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes I know. I just mean that the multiple currencies is something I didn’t like and is a downside of the game for me. Not only because I think they are not fun to collect, but because they aesthetically remind me of pay-to-win currencies and it’s a slight ick. As they say in the article, they deliberately copy elements from other games to add to their own. That’s cool, but I don’t like the specific things they copied: battle passes and multiple-currency upgrade trees.

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      • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ok but your objection is based on vibes then and run counter to the actual facts at hand so why misrepresent what Ghost Ship is doing? Their passes and scrip have nothing in common with paid for battle passes (which aren’t examples of pay to win either)

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• omarfw@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d say try it out to see if you like the gun mechanics and movement/different classes. If you do then you’ll love the game even more when you get to the higher difficulties. If it’s not your thing, you can refund on steam if still under 2 hours of playtime.

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