Spore is a perennial contender on every crowd-sourced “most disappointing game” list I’ve ever seen. It’s impossible to over-emphasize how much that game failed to achieve it’s hype, even if it ended up being ‘okay’. The only gaming disappointment that comes close in my personal experience is the mass effect 3 ending…

Ahh, the old “your whole argument is moot because I said so” line of reasoning. Given that you haven’t responded with any actual points I was tempted to not even respond, but I figured what the heck.

They didn’t produce that content for 2 years for free, so quit acting like they did. Even now, if I wanted to purchase every bit of DLC it would cost me ~$150. This is not a company trying to support a f2p model, it’s a company trying to charge on both ends.

The problem is that they explicitly lied about whether their game would have microtransactions. I don’t like them so I do avoid them - I research my games and avoid those that have pay to win elements. This was a full priced retail game with full priced expansions, not some free game that uses microtransactions to…

Personally, I don’t believe advertising as an industry adds value to society and I choose to try and undermine it whenever and wherever I can. I would greatly prefer other models that allow content providers to make a living with the value they create and I try to support those models where I find them. I find…

This strikes me as two things:

The biggest antagonist the series has is it’s own writing. I’ve never gone from really enjoying a series to bitterly hating the writing with such extreme emotional violence before. The only other thing that comes close is the Wheel of Time and at least they only got boring, rather than betraying the core ethos and…

Look, I hate to be the guy to beat a dead horse and I realize I’m doing that a bit by resurrecting this conversation, but our argument actually sparked me to try and find some objective data points to back me up. As objective as I was able to get, anyway. So I built a Survey (not sure if that link will work, don’t…

I love Destiny but it really needs cosmetic item slots, at the very least you should be able to choose the appearance of your non-exotic gear. The raid gear looked good the first time I saw it, but I’m getting sick of ratty red capes everywhere.

I didn’t play either expansion but the impression I got was that neither was impressive. Crota’s “raid” has been the butt of many jokes that I’ve seen on the destiny subreddit, House of Wolves seems to have been received better, but there was certainly no swell of good reviews like TTK has had. Regardless of the…

Sure, the game has come a long ways. I enjoy playing it quite a bit, it’s a really good game right now, but it’s not like they’ve been riding a F2P model to this point - they charged full price for all those changes. But yeah, I can totally agree with you that the vast majority of the changes that came with TTK were…

Currently the extent of their “free ongoing content” has been to unlock content that already existed. I’ll continue to judge it as it comes and if they do provide quality on the level of a full free DLC expansion it will certainly build some good will, but to this point it’s nothing impressive, just words. An no, it’s…

The problem to me isn’t the things they’ve implemented, or even these proposed implementations, it’s completely the lack of transparency on where Bungie plans to draw the line. They have been VERY cagey in their wording and have never committed to keeping Pay2Win out of the game. If they came out right now with a hard…

I think they can provide a valuable niche service. They allow game makers to have a long tail income attached to a game without a subscription fee, meaning they can keep spending on the game and adding content, making the game better over time. I agree with your general sentiment that people are way too lax on…

Not only that, but they would come on the heels of Bungie nerfing the drop rate for certain types of grinding materials significantly (both Strange Coins and Weapon Parts had their drop rates nerfed significantly in stealth fashion this patch). Once they start monetizing the grind, well then they’d be directly…

I think Smite has a fine model, don’t they allow you the option to purchase ALL gods (current and future) for like $30? I love Dota 2 and Valve’s model, but $30 for everything non-cosmetic in perpetuity seems completely reasonable to me too. They don’t have Valve’s market presence and they need to make their money…

in CoD the last time I played it was trivial to unlock every weapon and perk, the whole ‘Prestige’ system was set up with the idea that you’d run through every rank many times (50 ranks, 10-15 prestige ranks iirc). It’s actually a pretty genius approach, those who value having access to every gun and perk simply never…

Yeah, I agree with this interpretation. As someone only loosely familiar with the precise lore of Jedi Knight or the EU, the article gave me the impression that great big events happen in the Jedi Knight series that aren’t acknowledged or discussed elsewhere. It wasn’t that Kyle’s bad, it was that all this stuff he…

I completely agree when it comes to brand loyalty, but I actually take issue with the implication that all the same logic applies to people who refuse to buy products from a certain company. I (and others like me) don’t cut a brand out of my life because of overwhelming loyalty to a competitor, I do it when I view the…

I agree, they’re definitely sensationalizing the significance of that play to a significant degree because it’s the most recognizable and dramatic moment but when I clicked that link I was honestly half expecting it to link to a explanation of Techies’ mines, because if any single AoE ability won the series it was…