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1. ChristopherBRobin (christopherbrobin@iddqd.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 16:31:31 JST ChristopherBRobin
   Ubisoft began pushing ads in their game today, I never played their shit games thankfully fuck this.
   • NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 16:31:23 JST NEETzsche

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     • Deplorable Degenerate
     @Deplorable_Degenerate Freemium is one thing. You start for free, then you pay to win or whatever. Fine. What we're about to see is the worst of all worlds:
     
     You pay $60 for the game like back in the day. Then you pay a $10/mo fee to play online, but you can't play offline, so really you pay the fee to play at all. Then you pay more for credits or tokens or whatever that you spend make the game actually enjoyable, and also to win at PvP.
     
     That's coming.
     
     @ChristopherBRobin
   • Deplorable Degenerate (deplorable_degenerate@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 16:31:24 JST Deplorable Degenerate

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     • NEETzsche
     Ugh... can you imagine if modern game companies started charging you a buck or something for more lives or special items?
     
     Oh wait, the entire free to play mobile industry.
     Machismo repeated this.
   • NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 16:31:25 JST NEETzsche

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     • Deplorable Degenerate
     @ChristopherBRobin At least arcades of yore had a skill element with the "lives" system where you played until you died/lose before having to feed it more quarters. Having it be tied to a timer or something sounds awful
     
     @Deplorable_Degenerate
   • NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 16:31:26 JST NEETzsche

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     • Deplorable Degenerate
     >buy a $60 game
     >every 5min have to listen to a 30s ad
     >"gain the option to skip this ad after 10s with Vidyaslop Premium®"
   • ChristopherBRobin (christopherbrobin@iddqd.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 16:31:26 JST ChristopherBRobin

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     • NEETzsche
     • Deplorable Degenerate
     I think it was Ubisoft's CEO that was thinking of changing the pricing model for games as well. So in the future it won't even be 60 bucks it'll probably be per hour or some shit to get over the 60 bucks companies can get selling you shit.
   • Deplorable Degenerate (deplorable_degenerate@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 16:31:29 JST Deplorable Degenerate

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     • NEETzsche
     Can hear the corporate simps already "It isn't that bad."
     
     Oh yeah sure it is a one second loading screen RIGHT NOW
   • NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 16:31:30 JST NEETzsche

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     That’s fucking egregious. I would never pay for this shit, ever.

   • NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 17:11:13 JST NEETzsche

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     • BroDrillard
     • Deplorable Degenerate
     @Deplorable_Degenerate trannies somehow managed to infest the Doom community. I don't even know how
     
     @ChristopherBRobin @BroDrillard
     Machismo likes this.
   • NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 17:11:14 JST NEETzsche

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     • BroDrillard
     • Deplorable Degenerate
     @BroDrillard Once you get into the mod communities it basically never ends. Then there's also indie games. 95% of them will be trash, but that 5% will have something for you specifically that normie games do not, and it will vary by person
     
     @Deplorable_Degenerate @ChristopherBRobin
   • Deplorable Degenerate (deplorable_degenerate@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 17:11:14 JST Deplorable Degenerate

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     • NEETzsche
     • BroDrillard
     I've honestly spent the last decade playing indie and retro games almost exclusively.
     
     Sadly trannies are also attracted to niche games, and when your indie studio grows it sometimes wants to attract more normies.
   • BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 17:11:15 JST BroDrillard

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     • NEETzsche
     • Deplorable Degenerate
     There are enough decent old games to keep me entertained for a very long time.