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Why would I buy this? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 6 months ago by TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/games@lemmy.world
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So I see this game. Let me sum up what I actually see:

  • Reviews are mixed: not a great start
  • Requires 3rd-party account: fuck that
  • 60 euros base game: expensive, especially when the game has mixed reviews
  • 175 euros DLC's: are you fucking kidding me? On top of 60 euros for the base game, there's another 175 fees for content?
  • purchasable CoD points: so pay to win?

And they don't understand why people pirate, run away from AAA games and go for indie games instead.

This is just a random example. I've quit playing COD after Modern Warfare.

To end this positively: I recently started playing Necesse which is really nice, and I started playing an old time favorite again after a long time: World of Goo. Both worth my money :)

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[–] actualaccount@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I got Necesse too! It was about 6 bucks. Can't beat that price. Runs on a potato also.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago

I should play that again, probably start a new world/char because so much has changed since I got it almost 4 years ago.

[–] RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm all for hating on CoD, but the DLC "content" is skins and minor cosmetics, it really doesn't add anything to the game and isn't necessary at all. Also the CoD Points are for cosmetics as well. There's a lot of shitty things you can and should say about Vanguard, but it is not pay to win.

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[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Some dudes seem to be required to buy every COD game and every new sports game every year and that’s it until they eventually try to sell it all as a bundle on Facebook Marketplace.

I know this is a steam page, but y’know.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

I'm a person sensitive to that stuff too. I love to have collections complete. I used to buy every special edition of assassin's creed but I should have stopped after black flag. I used to buy games fully, with all DLC's because I needed it to be complete. Even the expensive useless skins, for single-player games. It's so stupid. And most oft he times I wouldn't even finish the game and wouldn't even start on the extra purchased content. Same with boardgames on kickstarter. I have several games with all expansions and extras still in plastic, for several years.

But I'm done with this shit. I stopped buying boardgames because I have more than enough and I pirate videogames and purchase them only if I spent enough time enjoying the game.

But recently I purchased the latest Hitman game because I enjoyed the pirated version. When bought, it was only half a game because the pirated version had all the DLC's. So I refunded it, I'm not going to spend money for only half a game, then to have to spend more to get the complete game.

Indie games I buy, AAA games I pirate and most of them I won't even play longer than 3-5 hours because they are shit. Happy they didn't get my money, I feel scammed by the industry for way too long.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Unsurprising, it's not for anyone but those who spend a lot to be able to frag the other one.

I stopped playing MMOs and online shooters a long time ago. Instead dividing my time between actual cycling and playing single player adventure games.

[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure what you're talking about. Can you put a few more red circles on the photo to help? Maybe a couple arrows too.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Beats me

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Marketing weirdly effective, for one. They pump a large portion of their budgets into hype and they make just enough back to keep going. It's like the same people who watch an ad for a fast food place and go even though it's never as advertised.

And most isn't direct marketing. They very much pay influencers to buy this slop and worse. You pay a half million to a guy to make something look popular and it becomes popular. It's very annoying.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 6 months ago

You wouldn't. You'd buy Titanfall 2 for a whopping £2.49, and play a great (if short) single player campaign and then delete it.

If only for Effect and Cause, which is right up there with the best levels in any game.

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You missed a circle.

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[–] Zolidus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I got it on sale for 10 bucks last year. Great SP. Lots of fun.

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[–] MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago
  • Reviews are mixed: not a great start

Agreed, puts a damper on everything else that follows.

  • Requires 3rd-party account: fuck that

Also agreed. If I buy a Steam game, I'd generally much rather it be accessible through Steam and do not appreciate when games are sold on Steam for other platforms.

  • 60 euros base game: expensive, especially when the game has mixed reviews

Not the worst price, but yeah I'd definitely expect a much better review score to justify that price. In the absence of a good review score this would be something I'd have to know I'm going to enjoy before I'd consider buying it full price.

  • 175 euros DLC's: are you fucking kidding me? On top of 60 euros for the base game, there's another 175 fees for content?

I don't know for certain about this particular game, but I do know people were shitting on Monster Hunter: Rise for the exact same reason: a seemingly exorbitant amount of DLC available from release implying it's a cash grab and just trying to milk more cash out of the player.

That being said, in my opinion MHR wasn't even half as bad as the naysayers would have you believe. MHR on release on Steam had a lot of DLC, sure, but it didn't launch on Steam. It launched on the Switch then later was ported to Steam with all of the same DLC they had worked on since its launch a year prior.

Almost all of the DLC was exclusively cosmetic skins, and almost all of those were part of bundles available for significantly cheaper prices than each one individually. I don't recall the exact prices but I believe it was something like buy 10 skins individually for $2/ea or buy all of them in a bundle for $5. The real price for any sane person for all 10 skins would be $5, but this showed up on Steam as 11 DLC items with a total of $25. Multiply this by the 6-10 ish bundles they had on the title's release on Steam to get a huge quantity of items and a massively inflated price compared to what anyone who wanted everything would realistically pay, assuming they paid attention.

I don't know that CoD is doing a similar thing here, and I certainly wouldn't give them the benefit of the doubt, but I dislike this argument against them because it can be very misleading.

  • purchasable CoD points: so pay to win?

Not necessarily P2W, but yeah I'm not a fan of MTX either and again wouldn't give CoD the benefit of the doubt to have a good or fair monetization model.

[–] s3rvant@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Just nabbed Necesse now that it's out of early access; looking forward to playing with my kiddos :)

[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

I wouldn't.

But I know people who only play COD and Madden. So if that's all you are ever going to play, I guess it might make sense to spend all your gaming money on it?

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