• Katana314@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    You’re not the target demographic.

    Someone working minimum wage wants to get the most of their refurbished PS4. They might try spending $60 on an unforgettable 12-hour singleplayer adventure, but then they’d run it a second time for achievements and have nothing else to play the rest of the year, having an old hospital and car bill to pay off. Instead, they either play F2P to stretch their dollar, or buy a 100-hour Ubisoft game padded with content. When they do get a bonus from work, they feel invested in that F2P and buy the skin they always envied.

    I’m of course not suggesting these games are masterpieces, but it’s not so hard to imagine the appeals they cater to.

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      10 months ago

      Thank the gods for games like Warframe. F2P, fun, lots of content, reasonable grind, the devs are actually trying to make a fun game and not just milk you for money. It’s the only F2P game I’ve put money into and I would do it again

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    10 months ago

    This seems like a good place to collect some notable F2P alternatives. I’ve struggled to find good mobile content… help me out! What are some good paid games or rare F2P gems you would recommend?

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    They have their taste in games, and lay it accurately with tons of ‘I know that X does Y, but not for me tho’. I expected some flame there, but no, just their personal opinion on what they like to see and lack.

    Stepping into their shoes, I’d try old rpgs, quests, adventures accumulating in the backlog and already having their share of GOTY awards so you can hop from a masterpiece to a masterpiece.

    They don’t go deep into why f2p and MTX are popular. It’s really just a sudden frustration that they aren’t as represented. Cheers to you journoperson, please take a sit between groups as rarely cared for as you do, or even worse

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      10 months ago

      Stepping into their shoes, I’d try old rpgs, quests, adventures accumulating in the backlog and already having their share of GOTY awards so you can hop from a masterpiece to a masterpiece.

      The trouble is there aren’t enough new games that follow this ethos anymore. In particular, it’s nigh on impossible to find a popular FPS or other multiplayer game that doesn’t have a bunch of microtransactions plastered all over it. That’s the core of their complaint, they used to be able to enjoy multiplayer games for the quality of the game, but the microtransactions dispel the illusion and turn it into a chore.

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        10 months ago

        They seemed to describe something other than regular, even old FPSs. If anything, these are the last tags in tneir library.

        Video games are a medium of artistic expression. My favorites have something insightful to say with their story, force you to reconsider basic mechanics in new ways, make me laugh, and have proper conclusions. I don’t want to be distracted with goals outside the canon of the world I’m trying to lose myself in.

        That’s why I went about old RPGs.

        I don’t feel their message is well-coordinated. My first thought was that they played Elisium and Baldurs Gate 3, and then wrote that they want more games like that.