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Marvel's Avengers goes on sale one last time before being delisted forever (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Live service games represent lazy, copy and paste style game mechanics. They're insulting to the gaming consumer's intelligence, and they're basically just jobs. Daily inconsequential tasking that eventually allows you to do an inconsequential raid, where you have a 1 in 1000 chance of dropping a rare item. All so you can stand around in the game world's hub and show off your meaningless cosmetic item that isn't really all that useful because you've accomplished all of your mundane, copy and paste goals. Oh, and the casino mechanics that psychologically incentivize buying microtransactions.

The game being "constantly updated" isn't the issue. The issue is that the "constant updates" are basically nothingburger, repetitive tasks that you've already done a thousand times.

Do I care enough to go on a crusade and slap boxes out of people's hands? Fuck no. But they are a stain on gaming

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You clearly don’t understand what “live service” games are if that’s what you think.

What did PUBG copy paste and from what? Overwatch? Diablo? Battlefield? Counter strike? Forza horizon and Motorsport?

Your definition of them seems to be a super narrow scope of basically a F2P mobile game.