That's exactly why I stopped playing Fortnite, it started feeling more like a chore than a game. I didn't feel like I was rewarded for participating, but being punished for not participating.

Timegated content is the worst, it just creates FOMO

Many games feel like gacha now for real. Curse that genre for bringing this plague upon us.

"We think giving the players funny hats that cross over will make them play Fortnite more."

Big Monty Python's Meaning of Life energy here.

Modern games kinda suck half the time.

I've said this before in other threads, but here I go... What's popular right now is battle royale shooters, and that's a shame, because battle royale shooters all suck. And yes Epic, you are largely to blame, as you make one of the most popular entries in this terrible genre.

If there's any worse game mechanic than frantic inventory management while under fire, I have yet to see it. At least in chess boxing they pause to take their turns between rounds.

Also, winning feels good, I think most people would agree with that. But if the game hosts 100 players with teams of 4, that means 4% of players get to "win". Compare to CoD or Overwatch, where in most game modes 50% of players get to win.

And just as a side note, I don't think Epic has solved anything with some new voice chat system. Because it's not new, discord already exists, steam already has integrated voice chat.

This is pretty much why I don't play multiplayer games, you're either uber 1337 MLG, or you're fucked. No inbetween, and constant losses aren't fun.

I could never get much into online gaming because it’s a full time job keeping up with the meta and if you are not highly skilled you are just cannon fodder.

Some, yes, but certainly not all of them.

I've been playing The Finals and it's a great casual game. I think I average like 6 hours a week or something. The matches are short, toxicity is low and its fun. Most of its player-base are casuals, a lot of console players. And it's designed in a way that even if you have bad teammates or lose you can still have a lot of fun since the main game-mode is 3v3v3 or 3v3v3v3, has fun movement and a completely destructible environment. Just blowing shit up is enough enjoyment on its own.

That's why I enjoyed TF2 for such a long time. While teamwork will always give you an advantage in matches, you will nearly never find it on public matches and people just do their own thing, and occasionally see a push forming and join in to get further. It also helps that the TTK in TF2 is much longer than in other team based multiplayer games, and you spawn back into it within 10 seconds or so.

Sadly there are so few games that follow that formula of goofy fun and rather just try to make games that are "strategic" or "competitive", which sucks majorly.

You forgot poorly optimized and the idiotic anti cheat engines.

Exactly Everyone i knew was excited for killing floor 3 but it wasnt what eas promised so we just dropped it.

Ark 2 never even came out.

Dune needed ark server manager like feature.

I could go on but point is games not delivering what previous games had. So why bother.

but have you thought about convincing your friends to ignore that to make Epic more money?

It's an issue in US and EU servers. The Deadlock community in particular rn is upset with voip racism and general chat harassment.

Really disappointing to be a gamer sometimes but weirdly enough the Asian servers are very chill for most games. Tf2, cs2, Deadlock - very little flaming or racism just people calling each other "noobs" at times. If you have any ability and ping is reasonable give Asian servers a shot.

Gamers are the biggest reason for the decline of the games industry. Entitled half-aware idiots demanding features that give them bigger and bigger hits of dopamine have driven the entire industry into the ground. The celebration of toxicity in the community hasn't helped a damn thing, either.

I still have a 1k usd cs2 knife from a random lucky box. Kinda feels good so I can see how people get really into it.

Yeah, you used to get to know the players and come back to certain servers because of the community around them. There was one TF2 server I played on for a while that had a guy who played exclusively melee Heavy with extremely throttled Internet, causing him to teleport around. You don't get guys like Magical Fisting Heavy anymore.

Damn it, who anthropomorphized satire and let it run a company!?

It’s like they are wanting to build the Oasis from ready player one.

Buy one skin, use it everywhere.

That's how they tried to sell NFTs in games to us iirc. Buy a gun skin or obtain a specific gun in CoD and use it in another game. I dunno how that was supposed to work, but I remember that marketing spin when they were trying to make them a thing.

Rockstar lost me when they added invasive anticheat to GTAV. It was a great game prior to that, but take away something I've been enoying for almost 10 years on a whim and don't allow me to play it anymore because I'm on Linux? Goodbye and good riddance. Not touching anything they put out ever again.

it's already failed for me.

I ain't touching that pile of shit with 10 copies of gta5 taped together and covered in feces...

ALL aaaa slop is dead to me... they will never see a dime from me ever again... no ea, no ubi, no rockstar... if they call themselves AAAA then it's trash.