7th October 2022, 9:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 7th October 2022, 9:52 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
Don't forget that many games have essentially no reason at all to be so dependent on online services. They're single player experiences with some sort of online component wedged into them like a piece of lime lovingly hanging off the rim of your toilet. And they're normalized now. Just take a peek at modern game forums, outside of our own, and you'll see kids that GREW UP with this stuff. To them, 9/11 is a piece of history from a naive world that didn't understand Game of Thrones style necessity of evil unto others. A pathetic, WEAK world, you see. One that deserved to be stepped on by "reality". "How, how could anyone EVER think it was okay to let their 13 year old child walk down the road UNSUPERVISED?!" I... digress...
Point is, we're foolish to think a game could ever be supported by just CHARGING the price to buy it. Also, a game that doesn't get regular injections of costumes and other such content is "dead". With THAT mindset, trying to explain that all these grindy unlock systems that require you to spend the better part of month after month dedicated to this one game just to get a frickin' unicorn outfit are frankly ridiculous and outright dystopian, well... it sails like a lead balloon. We may as well complain about the sunset every night. It's baked in. It's immutable reality. We already lost ABF. We're going to die and then no one will remember the before times.
Unless...
Point is, we're foolish to think a game could ever be supported by just CHARGING the price to buy it. Also, a game that doesn't get regular injections of costumes and other such content is "dead". With THAT mindset, trying to explain that all these grindy unlock systems that require you to spend the better part of month after month dedicated to this one game just to get a frickin' unicorn outfit are frankly ridiculous and outright dystopian, well... it sails like a lead balloon. We may as well complain about the sunset every night. It's baked in. It's immutable reality. We already lost ABF. We're going to die and then no one will remember the before times.
Unless...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)