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Why Buy Live Service Games If They’d Disappear. To top it all of, most of these games are 60 or 70 dollars at least. (www.gamescordia.com)
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[–] snooggums@midwest.social -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Summer sports leagues are bullshit because they don't last forever!

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Summer sports leagues aren't a computer program that's capable of being copy and pasted ad infinitum. You can play baseball forever without someone's permission. You can play chess forever without someone's permission. Live service games are basically like putting an expiration date on chess.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Sports are able to be replayed indefinitely.

Summer sports leagues are specificly set up for a limited time engagement based on how the games play out and respond to the player base. It is a perfect comparison to well executed live service games.

Not all gsmes need single player or long term playability just like not all games need online multiplayer.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, it's not. Because the sport doesn't disappear when the league is over. If you want to run a league for StarCraft: Brood War, you can do that with a Discord server. If you want to run a league for Hyperscape, the game is fucking gone.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You should really complain about how baseball doesn't have a single player mode.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You really should understand what the actual complaint is.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I disagree with the complaint being valid for every single game in existence.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Then go ahead and fight for your forced obsolescence. I personally prefer games and other creative works that don't arbitrarily delete themselves. Meanwhile, Ubisoft convinces people that it must be this way while they decommission one version of The Crew so that they upsell you on a sequel.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Stop having fun!"

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Sure, man. I've just been telling you to stop having fun this whole time, regardless of the problem statement in title of the article we're discussing. I think we're done here.