Hell, as a “vanilla” destiny 2 veteran, last time I tried to check it out I had no idea where to go.
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canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Destiny’s onboarding for new players is literally the worst. If you don’t have a veteran guiding you into the game it’s literally impossible to pick up. You want more interest in the game, then make it easier to actually pick it up instead of flat replacing the starter content.
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 8 months ago
hogunner@lemmy.world 8 months ago
100%! This was exactly my experience when trying to guide a new (to Destiny) friend through the story and get him geared up. He ended up quitting in frustration in less than a month because nothing made sense.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As a gamer who grew up in the 80’s, lots of games that have any significant online component at all feel like this now. If you don’t pick it up in the first couple months, forget it. It’ll be full of people who play 9 hours a day and it’ll have so many layers of systems and currencies it feels like an absurdist satire. Seasons and prestige and lore and so much baggage. I get so tired of asking “wait, can I earn the blue triangles by playing, do they cost real money, do I trade orange circles for them…?”
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The very first time a game tells me I have to pay for something with real currency in game that isn’t purely cosmetic, it gets dropped. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I let a game tell me that the blue triangles are mtx only.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Generally agreed. But it shocks me just how many games out there are making crazy amounts of money just selling cosmetics. I still remember horse armor! It was a scandal!
smort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
One of the reasons I still play rocket league now and then. Everyone else can have all the rare cosmetics they want, and great for them.
But when the match starts, we’re all on a level playing field (lol), and when the match ends, it’s because the winning team just executed better.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I tend to find this type of game at least a little less depressing. A fun little skill test with a social component.
TryingToEscapeTarkov@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I started a game that had been out for only hours (the Finals) and people already had advanced builds and insane map knowledge. These guys are preordering and then no lifeing the closed beta. Its crazy man.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Gotta love dropping $100 on a free game before it’s even out, then drip-feeding it thousands more over time when the game intrinsically provides nothing more than a highly engineered dopamine drip. No story, no meaningful progression, no value or benefit to you as a human, just obsessively learning and mastering a skill that has literally only one purpose on the planet: playing that game.
ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s by Nexon anyway. If you don’t play it you probably dodged a bullet. Their games are extremely P2W and they literally pioneered the earn in-game currency that you can only use to trial weapons and characters method of wealth extraction. It’s been so long since I’ve played one of their games, but that form of microtransaction has always stuck with me as a “if I see it, I’m immediately deleting your game” approach to gaming.