[-] Lemmitor@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They’re squeezing whatever they can out of this game before its final whimper. The only people that would buy this $15 pack are people who don’t know anything about the game. Marketing it as a “starter pack” is so disingenuous that I can’t believe that Bungie had any other motive in mind than to con a few unaware people who are unlucky enough to pick up this game on a sale.

Maybe if they’d finally do something about the new player experience (specifically, the lack of one) this game could actually go back to its heyday. But they’re just committed to enshitifying it further with FOMO tactics, convoluted expansion/season pass/dungeon pass models.

I mean just try selling your friends on a game when you explain to them how much the upfront cost is to actually play the “real” game.

[-] Lemmitor@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Because the gameplay itself is actually feels very good to some people. The cool thing about the franchise is the way that the gameplay has developed over time. Part of the reason the MCC is so cool is because you can experience the franchise at all of its stages. Infinite’s gameplay feels like another interesting and enjoyable variation.

And yet, 343 was still managed to fumble the bag. Nobody wants a shop or battle passes in their halo game.

[-] Lemmitor@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

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[-] Lemmitor@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have to imagine it’s a very difficult thing to cope with; learning something like that about a very close friend. It has to really mess with you. And I can understand the human instinct to want to defend them regardless of your moral standards.

I personally don’t think this goes to show any moral failing on their part. Or at worst, whatever moral failing may be present is mostly due in part to a natural human reaction to complex emotions better dealt with in therapy. As such, I think these two should be afforded a bit of leeway.

[-] Lemmitor@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

People taking their needed medication aren’t at fault for the predatory systems that control distribution and pricing. The blame falls on the institutions that fail us, not on the properly medicated.

[-] Lemmitor@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

They stated that you will still be able to redownload games you’ve already purchased. You just won’t be able to make new purchases. It’s kind of weird that the original article left that part out considering it’s what most people would care about.

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/xbox-360/store/view-download-history

[-] Lemmitor@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

I think that many users on here are clearly biased and will make arguments defending this aspect of the Fediverse because the users of the Fediverse likely skew on the "techy" side of things. Many times, when I see critiques of this platform that hold it back from being more accessible, I often see replies with some variation of "good, if it's too easy then we'll get those people".

I think it's an arrogant attitude that stems from a pointless sense of elitism over people who don't have the same perceived level of technical skills. There are small, non tech and non political communities on the fediverse that will struggle to grow because of how unapproachable the Fediverse is and because of the gatekeeping that awaits them.

People visit content aggregators for two primary reasons: 1. Curated and personalized content delivery and 2. Social engagement. For both of those to work, you need people to continuously interact with the platform. That means you need users and you want them to be engaged. If it becomes difficult for people to get the platform to deliver on reason 1 and reason 2, people will lose motivation to engage. And no, people will not care if they can "easily" create a new account on another server to visit an instance that is now blocked because an admin of the server they joined (which, for most new users, is probably whichever they are presented with first) decides to take it upon themselves to make some big moral statement.

[-] Lemmitor@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I’m pretty sure Denuvo games have always worked on steamdeck. I think you just need to launch them one time while you’re connected to the internet.

[-] Lemmitor@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

It seems like this only affects people using a bypass to run emulators on retail mode, instead of developer mode which was the usual method for a good while now.

Still annoying, but it doesn’t look like they’ve really changed their stance yet. Hope that’s not what’s to come.

[-] Lemmitor@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

You’ve got lots of responses here but I’ll throw my opinion in anyway. I love horror movies so the idea of the game really appealed to me. When I played it, I quickly learned that it was very very meta focused. It doesn’t play like you’re a killer on the hunt or a victim fighting for your life. It boils down to abusing the same several strategies or risk getting flamed by your lobby.

I have friends that still play it and when I watch, it seems like not much has changed but new content being added.

[-] Lemmitor@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago

I disagree that the majority of people want choices, at least when it comes to social media. The vast majority of social media users want to be where the user base is at. For Lemmy to be the more attractive option, it either needs to have do similar numbers to it’s competitor or offer something very unique and useful that the others don’t.

And I say this as someone who has been much happier on Lemmy than I have been the last few years on Reddit.

[-] Lemmitor@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Please let this pass and kick in after I get my grad school loans.. haha.

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