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Baldur’s Gate 3 Is One Of 2023's Best Games, Don't Turn It Into A Weapon (kotaku.com)
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The success of the Dungeons & Dragons RPG has kicked off a fiery debate about game development, AAA costs, and players’ expectations

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[–] 52 points 3 years ago (13 children)

If fewer players would buy the shitty games, and stop buying the battle passes and mtx, they would stop selling them. It's all about profit.

What do you think would have happened if Overwatch 2 launched and had a consistent player count of zero?

But it seems that a lot of people don't care as much as I want them to, and a lot of people have less self control than a toddler. Little will change.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Enough people have left Overwatch 2 that they've resorted to putting it on Steam. Perhaps it's not happening on the timeline we would like, but people do seem to be tiring of live service nonsense.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    That decision is working out so well for them, too! It's setting records!

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

    It hasn't stopped the game from being in the top 25 most played on Steam though. And I'll bet that number is disappointing to Blizzard too, but I'm going to guess a large number of those people leaving negative reviews are still playing the game, which doesn't help.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    The vast majority of them probably never played the game in the first place.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Eh, I don't know about that. It's free to play and huge in popular culture because tons of people played it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's huge in popular culture because of the source filmmaker porn. Certainly not the game itself.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Those games make money on whale players. People who spend thousands of dollars.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    But if whales have no one to play with those whales end up leaving too.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    I know I'm preaching to the choir, BlahajEnjoyer, but for anyone else reading this, this is why it's important to also not play these sorts of games in addition to not spending money on them, if stopping any of this is important to you.

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