At this point they're just trying to turn video games into virtual gambling without anyway for a player to get a payout so the house always wins. I wonder how long it will be until governments start regulating games like they're casinos or gambling in general.
So you would be okay with a little pay to win, as long as it's not too much? Where is the cutoff though?
There is a middle ground between six figures to "max out" a character, and an entirely free experience. I've seen a lot of hand wringing about the former, but very little actual context.
it doesn't really matter how many whales fund a game, you have to look at what you get out of it at your spending point.
eh, for new games maybe (which is piss easy because most of them are shit). for old or "dead" mmos he does the bare minimum and judges them for borderline stupid shit, in the most casual fucking way because turns out MMOs require a certain time investment and "community" involvement to get most or even all out of it, which he can't and won't do because it would mean one video every few months. so he plays them for a few days and then takes a look at the store, missing half the time what the shit in there even means or how it affects the game.
Probably because stuff like Genshin Impact is on PC as well and that's another base of players to get whales from.
Isn't Genshin kinda fair as far a gacha games go? I tried it for a bit because of peer pressure but the gameplay didn't do anything for me so I never got to the paywall I assume is further down the road.
None of the gacha games are actually fair, it's gambling and gambling is always going to be bullshit to a large extent.
Well yeah, fair isn't the right term, What I meant is they actually let you play the game for a bit before trying to drain money out of your urethra.
Genshin doesn't require payment at all to get through the game, though the way characters/weapons get empowered by using duplicates encourages whaling and the gacha system makes getting the desired 5* weapons/characters less likely. I wouldn't call the gacha system very good, though they did design the game quite well so that the gacha system isn't actually required to progress.
Remember when everyone complained that Diablo 3 looked like shit. The dark gloomy aesthetics of Diablo 2 and was replace with the WOW color scheme. Blizzard said fuck you it fine. Now here we are at Diablo 4 and looks exactly like 2. The fucking backpaddling is amazing.
Also, they mentioned they originally didn't plan Druid, and scrapped another planned class to include it. I bet it was Paladin that was scrapped. Meaning the classes were just gonna be D2's start line-up, with bi-gender Rogue as the melee/range hybrid filling in for Amazon.
I love how Blizzard is both stubborn as hell and so willing to bend over backwards. Its like they're run by bipolar retards.
I want to know if the Necro can summon both sexes of Skeletons.