If the fact that you happened to play a game before other people is something you're actively and intensely proud of, you're a fucking loser.
this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2024
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Well I think in some cases, people are proud to be early adopters of things.
They like to show that they supported something when it potentially needed the most support and they put faith in a project before it had a large scale foothold.
I'm not saying that's the case here, but I don't think calling someone a fucking loser for being proud of supporting the things they like is really fair.
Alternatively, if you respect yourself, don't play Fortnite.
Play Deep Rock Galactic instead, where you can go back in time to replay old seasons to get all the skins and upgrades that were ever introduced to the game. All free, lots of grind but its wholesome from start to finish. Rock and Stone!
We're rich!
We're rich!
We're rich!
You can play the Lorax in this game?
I mean there are trees in it, but not only do you not protect them, you actually need to protect yourself from them
Or, play Helldivers 2 instead, where although you will constantly be bouncing between "It's so over!" and "We are so back!" every few months, you can earn the premium currency by just playing the game. You actually make a not-half-bad amount.
And, AND. You get to act out your favorite Starship Troopers/Terminator wars fantasies (also recently added: seafood is back on the menu, boys) by being able to quite literally rain hell from above, (almost) any time you want.
I shit you not every time an Alpha Commander runs I hear "IT'S AFRAID" in my head
(disclaimer: I still like DRG, I just prefer one over the other. Don't nobody start nothin'.)
It's harder to get medals than credits, in my opinion. More of a grind, I mean.
Grinding credits and medals specifically really changed how it works for me. If you need medals, complete the harder missions fast and ignore the chaff, get the 10/15 medals per level.
I just ran trivial difficulty, flat bug maps looking for credits and medal drops, because you don't even have to extract to get them. Get the 30-40 creds, then exit to ship. Skips all the cinematics, and you can jump right back in to looting in a minute.
Nice alright fair enough
Play doom2 instead
Play doom2 instead
To be fair, you could say that about most games.
I try
I'm starting to think that video game culture is just a complex psy-op designed to redirect the youth's energy for protesting injustice to the most trivial shit.
"Bread and Circuses!" As yelled by my father anytime I asked him to get cable so I could watch sports.
Occam's Razor. It's just corporations milking us dry.
That's not occams razor. It's a wild conspiracy.
Occam's Razor is that it's just capitalism doing its thing. That was my point. The wild conspiracy is the other stuff.
No, occams razor is that the simplest answer is the most likely one. Every gaming company somehow scheming to stupify the collective youth is some nuclear-level conspiracy theory.
Correct
I prefer the way world of warcraft did it.
I had an original amani war bear mount which was exclusively available between patches 2.3 and 3.0 if you completed a very hard timed dungeon available once per 3 days (1 mount per completed run and there were ten people per run, so also limited by that). Some years later after people complained about not being able to get it anymore blizzard added the amani battle bear mount which is visually the same but a recolor. That way you still get the cool mount but the og earners still feel special.
Or maybe don't trust a games company that only focussed on revenues to the point where any grind item can just be bought so progression is not a factor in game design.
I much prefer that to the yearly release model we had before
If the skin is like a season 1 achievement award (like top x% of players, not like "win a game") I kinda get the frustration. But if it's just a skin that happened to be available at launch....ehhh
If it was sold as a time limited thing then I get it as well
These limited things are always just time based exclusives, publishers aren't gonna leave money on the table.
Technically it's very likely to be a 16- or maybe 32-bit integer at a very special address.
Itβs literally pixels on a screen bro
Ok bro
To be an OG ForkKnife player is to be constantly under attack
I'm an OG Fortnite player (c. 2017)...
Check out my stats, lol
E: Ok it was meant to be a joke, I've played 3 solo games, as if it's something to be proud of.
I wish my Save the World skins transferred over but as a Linuxer I have never played BR
There goes my hero,
Heβs doing the floss dance
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Perhaps it was a veiled attempt to discourage people from paying money for pixels on a screen after paying for pixels on a screen?
The point of digital goods is that scarcity doesn't have to be taken into account, stop taking away our strengths.
EVERYBODY gets the Renegade Skin!
I play DBD, I have a lot of event exclusive skins, when I see other people get them after the event isn't exclusive anymore, my reaction is "Oh hey, now this can be a skin instead of a status symbol."