denast

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure the original post is written in the context of a typical large US supermarket with outdoors parking lot.

  There people often buy more groceries then they can carry so they go with the cart to their cars to unload them. After doing that you’re supposed to push the cart back to one of cart sheds located in the parking lot, yet many people just leave it where they unloaded it and drive away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best indie games you've ever played?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually very ironic, the game needs about half an hour to get you hooked and yet so many people quit it beforehand. You’ll understand what I mean when you play it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately it works the same way as with StarCitizen, you’re aware it’s a ripoff, but if you want to play this particular type of a game, pay up or leave.

  With MMORPGs specifically, here are the options:

  • Free to Play. Enormous cash shop, often pay to win. Usually these games actually require the most money to play on high level, or waste your time by slowing down the grind and having an optional “premium” sub, which effectively makes it a sub MMO.

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  • Buy to Play. Much less predatory, rarely pay to win, but often with huge cash shop. Get ready to see tons of cool cosmetics that are only available through micro transactions, and the base game often receives scrapes from the table. Still, some of these games like TESO effectively force you to pay a sub by introducing a mechanic (like bottomless reagent bag) that make the game without them miserable on high level.

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  • Pay to play. Most obvious predator, nobody needs this much money to develop a game that already charges almost full price for base game and for all new DLCs, but also usually has the most tame cash shop. WoW for instance has a tiniest (comparing to games like TESO) cash shop with 20-ish mounts and pets nobody cares about.

  This creates effectively a pick-your-Devil situation with these games. No good monetization, pick whatever feels least predatory for you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assuming the earth is flat, how many people are part of the conspiracy⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always wondered how the Soviet Union and the Cold War fit into the NASA conspiracy. Did Korolev receive paycheks from across the ocean to fake Gagarin’s spaceflight too?