>play multiversus
>battlepass
>get into conan exiles
>they add a battlepass
>oh hey temtem looks interesting, finally a pokemon-type game on pc-
>battlepass
how did it become standard for companies to try and milk children for their parents wallets?
Play multiversus
Charles Fisher
Sebastian Moore
the real problem with all this shit is the fact that it's there to make playing the game a habit. turns fun into a chore. not feeling like playing the game today? you wouldn't want to miss out on today's login reward, would you? gotta do your daily quests, it'll only take 10 minutes
Sebastian Bell
MultiVersus thread?
MultiVersus Thread!!
Colton Wood
Play offline games only. Problem solved.
>game for literal babies
>devs still found something to censor post launch
I'm glad I skipped this shit
Hunter Thomas
somehow it feels the chore-like nature of wow spread as it died and now I can't escape it
it's been so long since i could just sit down and play a singleplayer game to finish and feel satisfied, i honestly think the last time i did that was when undertale came out, i just enjoy multiplayer more but maybe that's because i have no friends to talk about singleplayer games with
Henry Harris
Unchecked capitalism. Blame mutts.
Bentley Howard
>it's been so long since i could just sit down and play a singleplayer game to finish and feel satisfied
Try Nioh 2, it has aspects of online grinders and coop, but none of the live service bullshit.
Juan Butler
I miss him.
Justin Sullivan
>FF XIV adds battlepass
>it's free
>the grind is reasonable
>you also earn currency to purchase items from old passes to negate FOMO
It can be done right.
Asher Scott
Get cancer and die.
>dies
Aiden Baker
I'm sure there are others like me but this trend has actually made me play multiplayer games less. I actually play other vidya so whenever a game has a battle pass, unless it's reasonably paced like Deep Rock Galactic, I know I'll miss on some stuff and just stop playing. I know it's just FOMO but it has the opposite effect of what the publishers and devs intended.
Owen Brown
Since dreaming transcends logical passage of time it's theoretically possible for your brain to trap you in an endless dream if you're about to die as a defense mechanism.
Following that reasoning you can imagine TB being stuck in his own personal hell, reviewing Fortnite for eternity.
Joseph Lewis
no its a temtem thread fuck you
Jack Campbell
More people got into the hobby = more retards to exploit. COVID sealed the deal.
Xavier Russell
Most battle passes are trivial to complete for children and refund themselves upon completion
The goal isn't to directly incentivise spending money, it's to build up habits in children to log in daily to cement the playerbase so other whales find it worthwhile to spend money
Brody Ortiz
i really feel a huge part of this are the young people now who grew up doing shit like buying gems in clash of clans (i remember that app being huge in my high school) that now have grown (a little) and are ripe for exploiting by devs now
that and games nowadays just being designed to bring in profit, clearly kids are buying these passes and all the other fomo shit otherwise we wouldn't be seeing it
Carson Taylor
Sorry, I don't play games like that
Cooper Peterson
When companies milk children it’s just business, but when I do it it is illegal baka
Brayden Lewis
it's hard to escape it (outside of singleplayer games)
even games like monster hunter rise, the hunt, and edf 5 all have dozens of dlc for sale just for individual costumes/characters/gear
it makes me depressed thinking back to the time when these things would just be included in the base game as something you could earn or unlock rather than something you feel forced to buy to get the complete game experience
from huge content expansion packs that would be half the games cost to now individual costumes being 1/10th of a normal game price (if you're lucky)
James Gonzalez
Nope, the multiplayer games I play don't have that shit.
Levi Sanders
Too many sheeple support it. They're literally voting with their wallets.