I never will buy an online game for 60 bucks.
What a shocker!
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Godric@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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capuccino@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
True, $70+ is becoming the new standard…
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Only if you want the peasant option, the RealGamer™ edition starts at 100 plus dlc.
cron@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Maybe spending 600 bucks on microtransactions?
capuccino@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
neither, just play the game
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
But silly squid game fun… 🐙🥺
At least my game doesn’t have micro transactions!
~Yet… Nintendo please don’t~
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why would you spend any money on one, let alone play it?
Carmakazi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because people enjoy playing games with their friends?
Muffi@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
‘Kys’ simply means ‘kisses’ in Danish. I refuse to read it as any other meaning.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
“Gentlemen, you can’t kiss in here! This is a war game!”
essell@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Boy have I got some news to share about what goes on during wars!
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I know how to French kiss, but not Danish kiss. Thanks for teaching me, stranger.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Danish kiss is when you squirt cheese or fruit into their mouth beforehand
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Is that where you do two in the pink, one in the stink?
renzev@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unpopular opinion but games with community-driven multiplier (i.e. people hosting their own servers) is infinitely better than matchmaking multiplayer running on the dev/publisher’s servers if only for the sole reason that players have a choice of what kinds of communities they want to build and what things other players should be allowed to do instead of being forced into a sterilized commercial monoculture. I should be able to say “KYS KYS” in game if the people I’m playing with are okay with it.
LwL@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That and it’s easier to make genuine connections with regulars. Nowadays for that you have to go out of your way to join a community discord or similar because nearly all multiplayer games are built to play with your existing friends.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i miss the days of shit talking in COD lobbies for hours. so funny hearing people cry about my perfect grenade throws ruining their killstreaks
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So unpopular…
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
unpopular opinion but i like food
belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
If a low stakes game makes you so furious that you wish for someone to die, you should not be allowed to play these games.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Agreed, they need to improve their skills enough to make it happen instead of merely passively hoping that the world improves itself.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
On a side note I shouldn’t be getting comm banned for swearing on a game that’s not only rated M but also has swearing in the game.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I agree but just to clarify “kys” isn’t swearing it’s bullying
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s why it’s a side note. Tangential but relevant.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I miss when we’d get French players on Xbox Live voice chat and playfully abuse in other in our own languages (I know enough French of that sort).
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I used to love getting foreigners who’ve only learned English for weapons/vehicles that don’t translate for some reason and swear words.
You’d get “eusbdheu sjot8fb skxbfh LE SNIPER RIFLE eudbdisn fjfbdbdju kshdbdbr LE ROCKET LAUNCHER fidndjdb skejfb behdhcui SHIT BASTARD FUCK BASTARD FUCK FUCK BASTARD SHIT”
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I so miss þe playful abuse between strangers in game via voice. Nostalgia for a certain time this world may never feel again, expressed on a platform that is so anti casual-confrontation most won’t understand or enjoy that time.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Only thing I dont miss is being called the n word. Odk that’s the go to for suburban kids.
Vincentmario@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
All I said was gg 5 times
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
[Chat muted for 30 seconds]
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The problem wasn’t the gg, it was the two letters before and after…
Come to think about it, I haven’t been called that online in a long time.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
EZ GG EZ
PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It took me a minute, but I just realized that your description could actually apply to two completely different slurs.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Meh. Just mute people. That’s what I used to do when I played online. I understand emotions run high and people get frustrated, I’m not gonna let my sensibility and their bouts of idiocy (especially when the solution is so simple!) ruin their experience forever. And honestly, they’re probably just actual kids… I’m patient like that but I understand some people take things more to heart and whatnot.
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve always seen chat filters as a test in creativity. Telling someone they “misclicked when they hit install” or to “Go 0-1 irl” is way better
superduperpirate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Or tell the the way to reset bugs in the game is Alt+F4
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It’s .øre that it’s exhausting than anything else
I don’t want to play a game where people keep telling slurs or being toxic towards others. It just ruins the whole experience
_AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
completely unfair ban, they said it three times the rule only had it twice, how could they have know?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Chat disabled for 5 seconds
degen@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Good thing I checked the comments before posting the Uhm Ackshually
drath@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A bit weird to use soyjak in this one, most mic munchers don’t nor can have beards as they don’t have fully developed balls yet
icegladiator@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
Didn’t know that the offended wine moms of America got linked this post, sad that as an adult you can’t control your feelings when someone makes jokes on a video game
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
offended wine moms of America
Too fucking funny, banned!
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Who makes fake kissing sounds in online games?! And why is it a bannable offence?
SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
By the way, what kind of editors do you use to create these memes? I don’t want to trust online editors or anything corporate. I hope you understand.
sefra1@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Use Krita
SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Use Krita
Okay then I’ll watch tutorials like in the good old days. :3
Godric@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I didn’t make this particular one, but I usually just bash it out in a minute using Paint.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Like the material or the program?
(This was funnier in my head.)
Charzard4261@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Paint.NET (note: not their URL sadly) is simple and will get the job done for 99% of your meme needs. I find Krita and alternatives are harder to use for simple edits because they’re designed for more complex tasks.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
the linux equivalent is Pinta but it is not nearly as powerful
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Honestly, I’m not a fan of that sort of censorship.
I grew up in the Time Before Internet, and played all of the earliest online games. Trash talk is simply part of the experience as far as I’m concerned. On Team Fortress Classic, you had to abuse a motherfucker through text chat. And we loved it: everyone was enjoying that novel experience.
Back in the day of early COD on Xbox Live, lobbies were wild. Heck, even Uno subjected you to everything from ‘teach me slurs in your language’ to ‘random dude masturbating on camera while smoking a joint’.
I still play the occasional online game, but they’re boring and soulless. Very few people are on comms, as most seem afraid to actually talk. And with good reason; any sort of mildly spicy talk would get you banned on games. So instead of fostering a friendly atmosphere, from my perspective it ended up killing the entire vibe.
Let folks talk trash. Give as good as you get. And if that’s not for you? There’s other games to play.
SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh, it’s better to read the user agreement, there are such horrors there… Access to your PC at any time when you are connected to the network without problems…
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Just play EA games. You can say anything.
Fuck EA.
Album@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The problem starts with these companies feeling obligated to police what you can say over chat. Just to be clear it’s advertisers and payment services that necessitate that. The whole thing about trying to force a “non-toxic community” is a gaslight.
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Let me put it in terms a normie can understand. You show up to a game of pick up basketball (local league) and one person is wearing high heels (off meta) the second person shows up late, and the third person doesn’t know how to block a simple pass. How is that not gonna upset you?
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It would be nice if they were that explicit about what they don’t want said. Instead it’s more like, “Don’t say stuff we might not like. No, you can’t have a list and when we ban you we won’t tell you why.”
haloduder@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Yeah, the answer is to just not play those games or give them your money in the first place.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
What else do you expect, giving up your freedom of speech to faceless corporation and their bureaucratic corporations ? Really at this point it’s a choice. No one is forcing you to interact with these totalitocrats.
Play on your own terms, or just don’t play at all. Reject convenience, K Y SElectricd@lemmybefree.net 3 weeks ago
😘😘😘
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I will never understand why the hell people tilt so hard for an online game. Aren’t free time activities supposed to be fun?
brown_guy45@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Offline games are mostly chill
But online games, even though people play it for fun but after sometime it gets too frustrating when you don’t get the kills
That’s why I left playing online shooting games, those made me more angry
kautau@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s funny too because it totally depends on the game and how it’s monetized and set up as well. I had some of the most fun in games in my life playing quick play in the original overwatch with my buddies, even though I almost exclusively prefer offline single player open world games.
My skill increased dramatically with our constant playing, I switched between DPS, tank, heals and really learned the roster. Not that far off from playing N64 super smash with those same friends in college and switching to a new character when you felt like you had learned one pretty well.
I would get annoyed at losing, but it was whatever, I wasn’t trying to rank in competitive mode. I work hard enough in life and work, I’m not playing the game to work harder.
That being said, unless someone was a Smurf or hacking, I never got super mad at other players for simply being better than me, usually the characters felt pretty balanced and if we lost it was because of bad teamwork or lower skill. All characters were available to everyone, the only monetary value was skins.
Then I played overwatch 2, and immediately there were battle pass characters locked behind paywalls or engagement, and those characters were seriously unbalanced. The game was “free to play” and “pay to win” right off the bat and I haven’t touched it again, even though I put countless hours into the first game. And that sour taste I have now makes it so I refuse to play any game with a battle pass.
FlihpFlorp@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Real
I would still consider myself young but starting to adult (bday today :D). But in middle school and early highschool online FPS were the best. Overwatch, tf2 stuff like that. Now the most multiplayer games are helldivers and recently Deep rock but I also have a ton of single player games like modding Skyrim and occasionally playing Skyrim, dead cells, noita (I do in fact have a skill issue) no man’s sky and blade and sorcery
Now my most competition is among my friends rather than against them. Which is much less tilting
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Personally speaking, I think it’s addiction to the game. I played the game Enlisted for a few years and became a veteran player. It irritated me so much when I got inexperienced players on my team and I was carrying. I insulted my team mates in the chat a fair few times out of frustration. It just wasn’t enjoyable at all, yet I kept booting the game up every day.
Competitive online games really affect my mood, they make me so angry and I can’t help it. It’s unhealthy when a video game is actually ruining your day.
I just stick to singleplayer games now.
notarobot@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yes. But fun is relative. When I play rocket league, I like to try my hardest. If I’m not trying hard, it’s not as exiting. So it’s frustrating when playing ranked and for example your teammate is not even trying . Maybe RL isn’t the best example because matches are under 10 minutes, so I can just start another one, but games where you spend an hour, it’s just different
ebolapie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
IME in RL I don’t get told to KMS because I’m not trying, I get told to KMS because my teammate won’t rotate and I fail to defend a 2v1 while they’re stuck across the map. Or my favorite, where they’ll fake rotate and then overcommit. Then I’m the one who doesn’t rotate (even though I spent 80% of the match defending because “I got it! I got it! I got it!”
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
No. It’s not mature. If you play it like a sport, then being a gentleman is very important for your fun and growth both.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s the same as parents going full tilt against the ref of a kids league soccer match.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gamers aren’t well adjusted people
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
lots of online games are just outright badly designed, like having loads of abilities that literally just freeze you in place so you don’t get to play for a few seconds.
i was into overwatch when it was still an actual game and not a storefront, and my god there was sooooo much stuff that was obviously not acceptable for a game of that size and budget. I think the most egregious was roadhog’s hook that just didn’t care about time and physics, you could be grabbed behind walls and whatnot and of course that resulted in instant death too, because WHY NOT!
then you compare this to something like deep rock galactic, where it’s cooperative and “balance” is the player deciding how much of a challenge they want, and the devs specifically added a feature that lets you shout “rock and stone!” to build camraderie. You play that game and it’s just… fun? it’s just fun, it’s almost never frustrating at all, even if you get your ass kicked you just fucking try again and maybe lower the difficulty because you’re not quite good enough to take on that size of horde yet.
zeca@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
‘Fun’ and ‘chill’ are not the same concept. Fan things can be irritating, can make you excited and go through various emotions.
Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Back when I still played ranked in online games, I always felt like if I didn’t have Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen playing in the back of my head… I just wasn’t in the right mood to play.
Klear@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reminds me of that time when it felt like having Epix Sax Guy playing on the background helped out with Hearthstone RNG.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 weeks ago
Sports.