Oh, look! Another article about how a public personality is offended by polarized opinions that run counter to their own! When WILL this anti-cancel culture end, I tell you!? These shrieking influencers are simply unbearable! It’s literally the worst thing to have ever happened to people without a public platform!
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A long time ago, I read a post (purporting to be) by a f2p game developer who was responding to the idea of “well _I_ never get suckered into paying, so who cares?”
I like reading Kotaku, in fact I read it daily, but this kind of crap really comes off as apologism for gaming industry exploitation. I think the fact that the “lootboxes are just fun surprises!” article is still up speaks quite a bit.
This isn’t the first time John’s defended lootboxes.
This is an ad, not an article or “chat”.
Jesus Christ, Kotaku. I hope all of you know where you’re heading when this ship finally sinks for good.
I used to also say “well I’ve been able to enjoy it without spending money” on games such as Diablo Immortal. However the work of journalists such as Laura Kate Dale and James Stephanie Sterling, along with reading many horror stories over the years, has convinced me that there’s a very real human cost to monetization…
The fuck is this advertisement? It’s arguably one of the most exploitive and overpriced f2p games in history. Bye Kotaku. I'm done with this corpse of a website.
The estimates I’ve seen have found that it would take at least $100,000 and up to $500,000 to fully upgrade your character. Or, if you want to play the game exclusively “free”, you would need to sink anywhere from 10-20 years of continuous play to do it.
BAD TAKES, GET YER BAD TAKES HERE! TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!
“Diablo Immortal Is Far Too Good To Be Free”
Bullshit. Any game this has to push micro transactions this hard is a MAJOR red flag.
The moment this game was announced, there was feedback. Majority negative but regardless any feedback is helpful.
What did they do with this feedback, they decided to nickel and dime their…
The only reason Gamestop exists in 2022 IS the meme stock. That’s part of the problem.
Sad your parents and grandparents didn’t know their own worth as wage slaves. Thankfully younger people seem to have a better class consciousness.
“I talked a bunch of meaningless, pathetic shit and then people insulted me, which is what I thought they were going to do... making me the moral victor.” You are a sad, silly little person, please go away.
How is bootlicking as an occupation, anyway?
Pretty much the same story from me. Many years ago I went to buy one of the Assassin’s Creed games on launch day. I didn’t have a preorder but the town I lived in at the time wasn’t overly packed with gamers so nothing ever sold out anywhere (sometimes consoles, but NEVER games). So I went in and they started…
“Why on God’s green earth would they do something that monumentally stupid?”
They were close to their deserved death but a combo of private equity and meme stock dorks propped up a company that shouldn’t have been.
There’s a reason for it to exist because of used games. I remember years ago a mother and son in the store selling a bunch of games so he could get different ones. I have friends who used to do that back in the 80s and 90s so they could turn around the stuff they weren’t playing anymore. We forget sometimes as adults,…
musk fan uses existence of authors sex-life as criticism.... this makes perfect sense.