• Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    lol the class you unlock with 700000 exp, which takes a long time to get as f2p player, is OP and can be unlocled with real money

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    1 year ago

    They will release OP squads that will either require grinding or pay. DedSec is kind of trash tier because it is a test

    Edit: apparently there is already exclusive weapons in paid battlepass

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    1 year ago

    Somehow people always forget that Ubisoft published Trackmania (2020). (Limited) F2p, one time purchase for Standard access, yearly sub for club access, which is isn’t even worth it if your not a dedicated player.

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      This is literally p2w

      “There are no pay-to-win mechanics - Any gameplay impacting content that is purchasable is also unlockable through challenges to ensure fair play amongst our community.”

      They should fire their marketing people.

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        I don’t get the “launcher hate”. Yes, they’re not the most convenient, but I’m not playing in the launcher for hours.

        Currently I play moddedDragon Age Inquisition. The launch sequence is:

        Frosty Fix -> Frosty Manager -> Epic Games -> EA App -> Dragon Age.

        Takes a few seconds and I’m in the game.

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          imagine a car company adding like another door or lock/2nd key you’d have to open/unlock every time. thats what those represent. we know the 95% of games don’t need it. now for ones like paradox interactive games that have mod playlists support and is mostly utilitarian (they do have a little banner ad space for dlc etc), hell yeah thats fine, but when their just gross multi layer ads, odd trophy points shops/weird 2nd store front that smack of walled garden ecosystem shit those can fuck right off.

          i mean im also someone who 99% of the time mod out intro/and dev splash screens to save seconds.

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              And those extra launchers take up unnecessary resources and extra steps between you and the game.

              If I buy a game on one launcher, I should only have to deal with that launcher.

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                I agree, launchers are one superfluous piece of software that require additional resources.

                Steam takes half a gig of RAM. From my 32 gigs available.

                Also around 1 or 1.5 gigs on my drive. Many games take 50 to 100 gigs.

                It’s a minor inconvenience. If one can’t afford one gig for a launcher how would a game be installed anyway?

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                  It’s not just one launcher in a lot of cases. Many cases have you also run another launcher such as Ubisoft and EA games that require their launchers to run along side Steam. It all adds up and it doesn’t need to be that way nor does it need defending.

                  I don’t really understand why you’re defending something thats worse for you than the alternative.

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          Except everyone wants to have their own launcher and they all want to register background services that chew up resources constantly and do god knows what.

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              You can take them off of the “launch on startup” list to make them not do that, but he said they “want” to, which is true.

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                Yes, just like Discord and many other apps that are useful but annoying: You take them off autostart once.

                I don’t get why people would rather be angry all the time instead of just performing these five clicks once.

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                  It doesn’t stop being an issue just because you can brush it under the rug and ignore it.

                  The point is that the user shouldn’t have to work around these extra launchers. How about companies just stop pushing their own bloatware. If you buy a game through Steam, it should just require Steam. Same for GOG and all the others.

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    Can anyone here name many P2W games? The closest I can think of is hero-based games like R6Siege, where it’s relatively cheap to get the new, generally-balanced characters, but most monetization is in skins.

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      Literally any mobile game. Outside of that, you have your eastern gring MMOs like Black desert or Lost Ark, Fifa with it’s ultimate team, and the general pay for skipping the western market has fallen into like you have on the newer Assassin’s Creed games.