Why would I buy this?

Submitted ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

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So I see this game. Let me sum up what I actually see:

Reviews are mixed: not a great start
Requires 3rd-party account: fuck that
60 euros base game: expensive, especially when the game has mixed reviews
175 euros DLC’s: are you fucking kidding me? On top of 60 euros for the base game, there’s another 175 fees for content?
purchasable CoD points: so pay to win?

And they don’t understand why people pirate, run away from AAA games and go for indie games instead.

This is just a random example. I’ve quit playing COD after Modern Warfare.

To end this positively: I recently started playing Necesse which is really nice, and I started playing an old time favorite again after a long time: World of Goo. Both worth my money :)

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SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I want a Call of Doody game where you're running around downtown of a major city looking for a public bathroom while prairie dogging a big old shit kind of like Far Cry 2's malaria mechanic.

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- TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  I want to see a game where you have to pay rent on a server and you need to spend all of your time working to make in game currency to pay the rent otherwise you’re kicked out. But when you’re sick and can’t play, they will kick you out anyways. And the rent keeps getting up, but the monthly income does not. And when you need customer support they put you on a waiting list and when it’s your turn they say “wrong department, we’re putting you on another waiting list” so you will never get the mental help you need. Yeah, I would definitely play that game, I know I’m good at it.
  
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- treesapx@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’ll support anyone who references Far Cry 2’s malaria mechanic. A game ahead of its time…
  
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- Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This is the way.
  
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- Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  With CoD BO3 extensive ability to be modded and workshop support, it could be theoretically possible.
  
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ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Thanks to modern video games being barely functional slop most of the time, I got into emulation. All these games work beautifully and I have a massive catalogue of high quality games, with creative contents that would not get made anymore today.

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popcornpizza@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve always wondered what all the CoD or Battlefield games have that’s different between the versions? 😅 Because to me it’s just a bunch of people running around shooting each other in the exact same way. I can’t, at a glance, tell you which game or version it is, if I stumble upon someone playing it.

Same with the football, basketball, and American football games. Which version is it? Have the rules of the sport changed between years? 😂 Who knows!

On the other hand, I love survival crafting games, and with the indies you rarely tell them apart because they all look the same. 😂 So I shouldn’t speak.

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- TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  The graphics. You need the newer game to be able to play with the rest because they have the newer version, and you want the newer version for the better graphics, but to be able to run it properly you need to buy the high end GPU’s. If yo don’t, you’re a loser, a sad poor person, because everyone else has it and you don’t. So you throw away more money to something completely shit. And children are very easy to catch in this scam.
  
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SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Beats me

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taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Marketing weirdly effective, for one. They pump a large portion of their budgets into hype and they make just enough back to keep going. It’s like the same people who watch an ad for a fast food place and go even though it’s never as advertised.

And most isn’t direct marketing. They very much pay influencers to buy this slop and worse. You pay a half million to a guy to make something look popular and it becomes popular. It’s very annoying.

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s3rvant@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just nabbed Necesse now that it’s out of early access; looking forward to playing with my kiddos :)

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Zolidus@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I got it on sale for 10 bucks last year. Great SP. Lots of fun.

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- TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  That’s why I pirate. Even 10 bucks is too much money for these companies exploiting their customers. The only “downside” is no multiplayer. But I only care about single-player anyway :)
  
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Soapbox@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I wouldn’t.

But I know people who only play COD and Madden. So if that’s all you are ever going to play, I guess it might make sense to spend all your gaming money on it?

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dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I understand the single player campaigns are somewhat fun. I’ve had Black Ops on my Steam wishlist for years and it has never been on a decent sale.

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- TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  I don’t like the black ops series. The modern warfare games had a really nice single-player, or at least the first 2 (I haven’t played any cod after that, they already broke it).
  
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TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Buy the Call of Duty Warchest for $30 and play CoDUO with us. The best part about PC games is that you can still play the classics online!

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