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It’s the enshitification of triple AAA titles fucking slapping surcharges on EVERYTHING; day one dlc, microtransactions, always online DRM, the ability to revoke access to the shit we pay for, it’s death by 1000 cuts. EVERY anti-consumer action, every attempt to squeeze more of us while delivering the same rehashed shit over and over. Yup I will keep playing my old consoles and the games I own. The intent of us withholding our money and refusing to purchase your shit is to provide publishers with a sense of pride and accomplishment for retaining their customer base.

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bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Ya know what was an awesome game that just fucking worked? Granted I think it had hats or some shit. But pico park. Great game that worked awesome and didnt need any bullshit. Idk just came to mind.

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- dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Poignantly, not AAA.
  
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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
AAA knows that their primary competition is old games, that run better on more hardware, and are just better games.

Via a combination of acting like a cartel in a market, and also personally being basically unimaginably vain… they distort reality around them to the greatest extent that they can, to continue to convince people their overpriced garbage is actually the hottest shit and you’re some kind of horrible bad person if you don’t pay them.

That’s why they have entire networks of access journalists, why they constantly write essentially op-eds that follow the meta, or the meta-meta of the actual video game industry, why AAA games have marketing budgets bigger than Hollywood movies.

It is literally a propaganda machine.

Piracy is morally superior to feeding these nepo baby gaslighting rainbow capitalists that love to pretend they’re progressive.

They’re not progressive, they’re entitled faux nobility, delusional narcissists that live in hugboxes that reward complancency and not rocking the boat.

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- ferrule@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  What I find utterly asinine is it seems like the even care less about profits than they do feeding their egos and following this shit model of operation. Building shit games, injecting all the dlc, microtransactions crap and then charging so much no on wants to buy more. I constantly overspend on GOG and the like because its easy to get me in the door. If I have to save up to buy a game I have a lot of time to talk myself out of it.
  
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  - sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah, it is assinine.
    
    Because really what this all boils down to is an excercise in vanity, in self-validation essentially by force.
    
    You can see this everywhere in society… fucking, Trump is threatening the genocide of a civilization, ultimately, to avoid having to ever admit he was wrong about anything.
    
    What is wild to me is that… you know like schizotypal people get a horrible rap in society, because they’re unstable and dangerous!
    
    Yeah, yes, its tragic when one of them snaps and does something horrible.
    
    But you what is fucking everywhere, so commonplace that its just expected?
    
    Absurdly overconfident malignant narcissists.
    
    They’re very often literally sociopaths, and they very often do nothing other than ruin the lives of those around them, to validate themselves.
    
    But again this is just apparently so normal, that it even registers at a social level when it is hyper obvious and extreme, as with Destiny or Thor/Pirate Software.
    
    They’re all the same personality type… never take accountability for anything, gaslight you into thinking you somehow made a mistake or misunderstood them… when they will and do just say anything that they think will make them more highly regarded.
    
    Its narcissists that are the most dangerous kind of person to human society, but we hardly at all treat them the way we treat a far smaller number of people with overall, far less dangerous neurotypes.
    
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