Comment on Anon is not satisfied
Xabis@lemmy.world 2 days agoWhy do people gamble? Because that’s what this is.
The companies don’t even care about the average player. They are trying to hook rich people with more money then sense, aka whales.
A long time ago the industry realized an extremely small percent blows way more money than all the others combined.
If you ever played a game with any kind of monitization and asked yourself why everything is $40 and how the average player can afford it, this is why.
EA’s Real Racing turned into this pay-to-play shit. I genuinely enjoyed that game back when it came out, then everything started to get monetized and you had to do various things fairly often if you wanted to make any sort of progress.
Why can’t I just have a fun realistic racing game that doesn’t try to cram “upgrades” that cost real money down my throat?
I hear ya. I am getting real tired of the paywalls and the rent seeking in something I paid for. It used to be confined to free to play games but it has gradually started to creep into fully paid AAA stuff now and that’s just unacceptable to me.
I grew up playing Gran Turismo 3, and that was an absolute blast - me and a Buddy had a Miata in the game that we both put a lot of time into, and it taught us about how car running worked (to a certain degree, anyway). My wife got me a PS5 when we were dating, and I immediately bought GTA7 at full price… Only to be met with an absolute assload of microtransactions.
It bothered me so much that I ended up going out and buying a PS2 off FB marketplace and dug out GTA3 from my parents’ collection of games.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
So the 1% are the problem in games as well.
Xabis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
lol, precisely!