I'll be excited about the next TES game, but am very worried about what
Bethesda has been doing with its paid mods thing. No wait, they're not paid
mods, it's the Creation Club. Riiiiight.
I've been slightly pissed off with the DLC stuff on random fighting games - I'm
looking at you Netherrealm. If I've blown full price on a game and still need
to pay extra for additional characters that I'm pretty damned sure they'd built
before releasing the game, then I'm irritated. I don't care about extra
outfits. If you want to create those and sell them for a dollar, whatever. They
don't impact my game. Similarly, FF15: Boyzone has a crap load of DLC. I think
together it gets close to price of the original game. I don't care too much
about that since the actual game was complete.
The only game that really pissed me off in terms of DLC was Asura's Wrath. I
don't even know where my copy is anymore. I think I loaded it to someone.
Turned out in that one that there was an additional stage and the final
ending... all happily locked behind a paid DLC wall. WTF?
For the rest, I don't feel like games with loot boxes have messed with me. I
play Overwatch and have never bought a loot box. Love the game. Hearthstone I
did buy boxes during expansions and stuff. The game itself is free and I don't
feel like I was ripped off for the boxes.
From: cpt-fgc-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cpt-fgc-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Wynand-Ben
Sent: 23 October 2017 11:46 PM
To: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Hello
Dunno
Seems like nostalgia goggles... there are tons of horseshit old games... just
like there are tons new horseshit games.
Things about memory is people tend to not remember the loads of trash of years
past and only remember the good ones.
The industry has grown immensely in size so yea, there are more bad games, but
I think there is more good games per year as well compared to the past.
But once again this could be highly personal depend on what kind of games a
person is into.
How many games have you actually played or would have been interested in that
was ruined by Micro transactions or bad DLC practices?
Its probably an extremely low amount.
My personal spoiled game count 1 (Star Wars Battlefront)
Meanwhile the Indie game scene exploded with hordes of original titles.
With multiple amazing new games per year in such varied number of genres.
I personally think we are currently the closest to what could be considered a
gaming golden age.
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of Manase Zote <bmlzote@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:bmlzote@xxxxxxxxx>>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 05:37 PM
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Subject: Re: Hello
Micro transactions, dlc, loot boxes, season passes it goes on and on.
I agree about the 2 games you mentioned, they are godlike but it's just 2 maybe
if you are lucky that number can reach 10 but that is out of 50 plus games
released this year on ps4 alone.
And that is not good since the gaming industry is now focusing on Mass
producing games rather than focusing on quality.
The gaming media is also not helping with their partnerships with the gaming
publishers and awarding positive reviews of these games and focusing on esports
rather than the gaming experience we all know and love.
On 23 Oct 2017 5:25 p.m., "Wynand-Ben"
<paashaasggx@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:paashaasggx@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Nah man. Its not that bad.
Its the same as any form of news and the media only focuses on the bad news.
There are amazing games releasing every year.
This year alone has given me 2 of the best games I have ever played in my life.
Yakuza 0
Nier: Automata
I guess it still depends on taste but majority of games being released are not
Microtransaction ridden monstrosities.
Hopefully it steers away them in the same way the "online pass" trend kicked
the bucket.
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Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 05:15 PM
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Subject: RE: Hello
I will just fire up my ps2 and clear it's back log.
This generation of gaming has gone down the drain, there is simply little to
nothing to look forward to release wise.
Someone on the internet said the industry needs a crash and I fully agree with
that.
On 23 Oct 2017 4:53 p.m., "Donaldson, Alasdair"
<alasdair.donaldson@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:alasdair.donaldson@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I thought it was a joke when I first read it - something The Onion would print.
From: cpt-fgc-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cpt-fgc-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[mailto:cpt-fgc-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cpt-fgc-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] On
Behalf Of Wynand-Ben
Sent: 23 October 2017 4:39 PM
To: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Hello
on topic of DLC
That shit that Activision/Blizzard patented is scary lol.
GG
Augmenting micro transactions through screwing with online matchmaking.
You get deliberately paired up with or against people who have purchased
items/weapons etc. that are also better than you skill wise.
Making you feel under powered and also wanting those items/weapons.
Then after you actually purchased these items yourself they pair you up against
lower skilled players on purpose to make you feel good and positively reinforce
your purchase. (And making them want the items as well)
Scummy as all hell lol
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Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 02:15 PM
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Subject: Hello
This year has dragged on long enough. Time for the December holidays to roll
around.
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