many of the most interesting games started as free mods or student projects

  • I Cast Fist
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    8811 months ago

    The rich can easily exploit the political system and lobby for favorable laws = Not only is it pay to win, the devs suck the dicks of their biggest whales

    • @Squirrel@thelemmy.club
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      3311 months ago

      It’s pay to win, where if you pay enough, the devs will add customized cheats that only work for you.

    • I Cast Fist
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      1311 months ago

      Whistleblowing corruption is dangerous and might often end in persecution against the whistleblower = Reporting cheating whales is a surefire way to get yourself banned

      The wealth inequality gap is mind-boggling = You’d need to grind nonstop for a total of 5 billion hours to buy one of everything on the cash shop

  • IndiBrony
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    5211 months ago

    I haven’t been here long but I imagine c/outside exists?

      • @LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz
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        4311 months ago

        I think they meant the sub where life is treated like a game, a very poorly designed game (almost as if there was no Designer, just people).

        Things like, “I’m level 18, should I spec my character into the biochem, robotics, or software guild?”

        Or “What’s the cheat code for an affordable surgery?”

        You get the idea. Life’s a game. And it sucks. Stupid devs.

        • paraphrand
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          2811 months ago

          I wish they would properly announce the UFO DLC already. All we have is rumors and hearsay.

          • Pseu
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            1511 months ago

            I’m personally of the opinion that the hints aren’t for the UFO expansion, but it’s probably teasers for the World War 3 event, combined with camera artefacts and general player secrecy.

            It’s sad too. Everyone wants some good new DLC. All this PvP shit is getting out of hand. :(

        • IndiBrony
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          1011 months ago

          Affordable surgery is exclusive to the European servers, it seems.

  • Gamey
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    2211 months ago

    Why is the richkid class locked for me?

    • @cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca
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      1711 months ago

      You’re only complaining because you got a bad spawn. The truth is anyone can make it to the top of the lobby, it just requires grinding and being smart.

      I know this because I started out with barely anything, just a few million dollars from my trust fund when I finished boarding school.

      • regalia
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        911 months ago

        Sigma grindset yo… Also spawn with a slave emerald mine.

  • @imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one
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    1911 months ago

    This thread got me thinking, do we have a replacement for r/outside on Lemmy? That sub was pretty entertaining at times

  • Sonotsugipaa
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    1211 months ago

    Promises of infinite exponential capital growth => Feature creep

  • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    This is reformist language at best…

    Edit: Sorry for my harsh words. It’s just … the raw urgency and essence of the original criticisms here have just been squeezed out when converted into gamer-code language…

    • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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      411 months ago

      Yeah the consumerist rhetoric in game reviews (and the entire technology press more broadly) dooms all of their attempts at analysis to be extremely shallow. Maybe one day a journalist will pay attention in one of their media studies classes and read the fucking Adorno reading that one of their teachers assigned, but that day has not yet come.