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Can you muppets stop throwing away money on awful companies producing subpar games? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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I propose 2024 is the year of early access games boycott.

Bring back completed games only.

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[–] 149 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Eh, early access isn't the problem. Palworld has been wrecking Pokemon despite being Early Access

Can 2024 instead be the year of bad game boycott? When an early access game is better than most AAA completed games, then there's a serious problem

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

    If we could all just agree to not preorder, I’ll negotiate from there.

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Preordering made sense when games came in nice boxes, and you wanted to be sure to play it on the day of release instead of waiting for restocking. With digital downloads now which are not limited in quantity it is just stupid.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    This, 100%. The only value of preordering is guaranteeing stock of a physical item that threatens to be out of stock if you were to buy it walk-in. In the modern digital age where downloading tens of gigabytes that take up no space, ship near-instantly on demand, and have theoretically infinite supply, preordering is pointless if the actual game itself is all you care about.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Early Access is a problem when big publishers try to do it. It makes sense that indies do it so they have cash flow at all. Big outlets have funding on hand, but are trying to leverage it, anyway.

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

    kinda like what's going on with Last Epoch and Diablo IV

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

    May it’s my age, but I feel like d3 was significantly more popular that d4 is.

    Since it’s required to be online I’m 100% skipping it.

    I’m also Skipping it because they took overwatch 1 away from me. So no more blizzard games until overwatch 1 comes back.

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