Comment on Every game developer company should be like this

• MrEUser@lemmy.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Okay, let’s think critically.

  “I’ve been able to play games for free because of microtransactions”

  Microtransactions cost money, that’s not free. What you are saying here is you got to play a game without supporting the devs while OTHER people paid for microtransactions.

  You assume incorrectly, I support devs by buying games, not supporting microtransactions.

  “Most of the most popular games in the world are free…” First, like hell. Show me stats that support a claim that MOST popular games are free. Second, if a game is supported by microtransactions, you’re lying if you say it’s free. MICROTRANSACTIONS ARE NOT FREE.

  Next “I have purposely bought microtransactions to support the developer…” I support the dev by buying the game.

  Microtransactions make a good game bad, and bad games worse. None of what you said made an argument for microtransactions. Microtransactions encourage devs to hide fixes behind pay walls, even small ones.

  My statements weren’t kneejerk. Your nonsense obviously wasn’t even thought through as it’s internally inconsistent.

  I look forward to you trying again.

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  • DingoBilly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ok this is pretty easy lol.

    So if we go by steam charts and other factors, the most played games are f2p yes. Fortnite, csgo and dota 2 are in the top 5. The top 2 spots are f2p. So yes, those are the most popular games and this isn’t even a peak time for them and they’re far more popular than a game like bg3.

    A f2p game is by definition free. That’s the choice the devs made and whether it works or not is up to how good the game is and how enticing their microtransactions are. But yes - I do not have to spend any money to play them. The game is literally free. If someone else pays for an item and gives it to you, are you going to argue the item wasn’t free? It makes no sense.

    Also, so they make fortnite worse? Dota 2 worse? Cs go worse? The answer is no, it makes zero difference. But they do make excellent games free. I don’t see how you could possibly argue that those games are bad purely because they have microtransactions. That’s the issue I have with your argument as it’s illogical.

    Also, microtransactions encourage devs to hide fixes behind paywalls? This is flat out wrong when it’s purely cosmetic, and in most games I think it’s also wrong. You get powercreep issues which is an issue with those sorts of games, but I think that happens in any sort of long game (thinking card games in particular like hearthstone).

    I think you are just playing bad games which is the issue, or just haven’t thought this through as I said.

    If someone wants to spend thousands on microtransactions for cosmetics and enjoy it, then that’s their prerogative as well. Where it’s predatory it sucks, but otherwise I’ve gone down that hole and really enjoyed spending money on cool cosmetics or to enjoy a game more for a time. When I’ve had the money it’s made good games even more enjoyable, but I still loved the base game otherwise I wouldn’t be spending money on it.

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    • MrEUser@lemmy.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “I think you’re just playing bad games…”

      Like Baldur’s Gate 3?

      “Where it’s predatory it sucks” - The literal definition of microtransactions.

      I think we’re done here. You think video gaming is what’s happened in the past ten years. I played my first video game in 1979 on an Atari 2600. I remember Pacman fever, I lived in California during it. I remember when Space Ace and Dragoons Lair came out in the arcades and cost .50 instead of a quarter…

      Tell me again how I’m “just playing bad games…” You just can’t see the forest for the trees…

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    • MrEUser@lemmy.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And I’ll add the most important thing you forgot…

      You have around 50 years of game data to sift through… Not just what a limited set from Steam gives you.

      I’ll wait.

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    • MrEUser@lemmy.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s a problem with your starting point.

      We were talking about microtransactions. You jumped to free to play.

      Not all games that have microtransactions are fre to play.

      So you’ve lied again. Not as easy you thought.

      What you need to do is grab ALL games with microtransactions. You need to grab stats on ALL free games. You need to grab stats on hidden cost games (also called free to play).

      Try again junior.

      And try thinking this time.

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