Create FOMO for players so they continuously check in and play to unlock stuff so they never miss out on an opportunity
This comment made me mad at Destiny 2 again.
Your anger is pure and justified.
Someone say something about rocket League?
Rocket League taught to not worry about missing out. The amount of mundane shit that you can get for toppers and antennas are ridiculous. I think they’ve modeled about every cheapo thing you can find at a dollar store. I think they are making their way through TJ Maxx crud atm. I’ll be back when I can get a mildly used, mid-century, black, faux leather couch with purple highlights, and a Striker tag.
Same, fuck Bungie
I’ve reached the point where if a game gives me FOMO I will just stop playing the game
This is basically how I play Forza. Play a couple days to get my weeklys and then check in the next week
Are you playing then or are you just doing a todo list every week?
Drop that shit man
Play something you actually enjoy
I do enjoy it, there’s just not much to do outside of that
FoMO is a powerful psychological weapon.
Play Deep Rock Galactic. If you want a Halloween hat from 4 years ago. This Halloween will have new hats, and all the previous hats. All the gear is like that.
Rock and Stone!!!
Deep Rock is amazing. Great gameplay and it’s not constantly trying to sell you something because you already bought the game.
Drg really is the best, I don’t care for the current seasons infection mechanics though. I plan on coming back once that’s gone, I actually enjoyed the robot invasion season
In a recent update you can turn them off, so they don’t show up no more. Rock and Stone!
For Carl. Rock and Stone Brother.
Rock and stone brother!!!
For Karl!!!
Is DRG still new player friendly? I’ve been thinking about starting but like so many online multiplayer games I feel like I’d have to catch up on so many mechanics and probably annoy people with my ineptitude
Should be. From what I’ve seen, the community is really chill. Although that might change at higher difficulties, never played those.
There is the occasional idiot, but they’re rare enough to just move on with another round.
FOMO. The answer is FOMO. buy the skin now, it won’t be here forever.
The current fascination with skins and cosmetics is hilarious. It’s ridiculous that people continue to put money and time into a game mechanic that was already perfected with the catboy costume. If you’re playing a game and you aren’t using a free catboy costume, why are you even playing that game? Secondarily, your opinion is worthless, stop wasting drive space on my internet by posting it.
You sound bitter. I bet you actually didn’t get the catboy costume. Loser.
You dare doubt my enjoyment of catboys? Do you even understand who you’re talking to?? If you EVER suggest that I am even NEUTRAL to programmer socks and midriffs, I will come down on you like the semiflaccid, freshly shaven hammer of Thor. You mark my FUCKING WORDS.
okay grandpa, now let’s get you to bed.
Meow let’s get you to bed. Now fetch the ears, boy.
Nice roleplay, but I bet that not even your headset has cat ears.
You’re right actually, but because I don’t own a headset. I’m hearing impaired. lol
If I were to pick a headset, it’d probably lack cat ears. Visual accessories that no one will see aren’t my jam and I’m definitely not taking them outside so I can get hate crimed by a chud. I apologize, it takes a certain mood for me to get into character and molesty grandpa is hard.
oh, sorry. Here I was thinking of doing the funny.
Well, take care!
I don’t get it personally.
I mean, I understand the theory. I was even explaining that it would be the next big thing over a decade ago to executives, saying that for people with their community online that it was the equivalent of buying nice clothes in real life to impress.
But I’ve just never really had the desire to spend actual money on a skin in a game.
Though I guess if in real life you had a government provided selection of clothes for free and then additional clothes for more money I’d be pretty happy going with the free clothes and keeping my money too.
I’ve never been playing a game online and seen someone with an expensive skin and thought “man, that person must be cool.” I only think “man, there goes yet another sucker.”
You’ve described the situation in Africa, funny enough. It’s relatively rare in war-torn regions to actually purchase clothing due to the endless ambient supply. Relatedly, it’s common, given the obesity epidemic in the US, for clothing to be a few sizes too large. Clothing trade has been severely impacted by steady demand and infinite supply.
I considered purchasing skins when it first became on option but quickly realized that I just could not care a single iota less about my appearance past its utilitarian qualities.
I wear camouflage when it makes me more difficult to see in a shooter. I wear bright colors in platformers to track my movement more easily. I put on a skirt and cat ears when I’m looking to find people without sticks up their asses. I’d never pay for it, though. Buying skins seems childish and impulsive to me.
Devs have nothing to do with that decision
they are the ones developing and implementing that decision though.
That decision doesn’t come from the devs.
Yes, and they’re the ones heeding it.
Dude what’s your deal?
You think they’re going to strike and refuse? This is their last stand? They throw away their job because they will die on this hill?
nah, i wanted some spine on people.
devs aint gonna starve if they refuse a crappy job for another one.
that applies to many things, not just games btw.
a crappy job for another one.
The other job will be just as crappy. Decent dev shops are few and far between. We get paid semi-decently to sell our souls, just as people in other jobs don’t even get paid properly to do the same.
I don’t think you even understand how work actually gets done, let alone how development works.
Yeah I for one would sooner let my child starve to death than deprive you of your fancy pixels
They develop it, sure, but much like the rest of the game, devs have minimal say in what actually goes into the game.
devs are the rare kind of worker who can choose to work elsewhere without much problems.
Somewhere else where it’s going to end up the same. The industry is shit with this kind of practice, devs can go wherever they want, sure. Assuming this is true, which I have my doubts on, it doesn’t matter if everywhere is doing the same thing.
Most of Big Tech (or Big Anything really) is owned by the same few people through companies like Vanguard. Shitty industry practices come from that crowd, so there’s no escaping them. If you get into a neat company, they are bound to get acquired sooner or later. Fuck, most small companies actually start out aiming for an acquisition now.
then open your own fucking studio instead of addicting kids for fucking money??? stop coding and do better shit for humanity?
Big moving goalposts there. Maybe direct some of that vitriol at the execs, the ones who are actually not doing shit for humanity.
The goalpost is still not having stuff like this just because some asshoIe somewhere wants more money.
And nothing will actually change if workers keep sucking it up and doing the unethical garbage they are told to do. If complaining to them did anything, this wouldn’t be a problem in the first place.
$$$
Worst part is you still need to download and install data for every unobtainable cosmetic ever made, bloating the game.
It’s not devs, it’s the managers that tell the devs to build dumbass rules like that into the games
Shouldn’t have went with a publisher. “Just following orders” is never valid.
Alright, sure, but anybody who chooses to work at places like Activision or Bethesda at this point knows exactly what they’re signing up for.
Yeah honestly fuck anyone making video games that have microtransactions, they should risk homelessness and destitution before they make a game where you have to pay for costumes
I for one would sooner die than contribute to a game with seasonal content
LMAO nobody with a real programming background or industry experience in art is risking homelessness, unless they’re at least a little less than mentally competent.
Devs are like that because publishers says they should do it. And publishers are like that because people keep buying and paying for all that shit. So in the end they are like that because of OP who contributes to the FOMO and wants to throw money at them for cosmetics.
God, you are so much better than OP. Always used the default costumes (humility); never opened a single lootbox, even the free ones—really just the best kind of person. I-I know this is a bit unusual to do in public (gosh, I’m nervous), but I just wanted to say: Thank you for your service.
What’s the game?
Unironically, Adventure Quest.
Dragonfable >> Adventure Quest, cmv
They’re damn close I’ll give you that. But AQ’s got that old flash jank that hits so right. DF never had that. Too polished.
Fortnite all around.
MONEY
dats why
Destiny 2 moment
You’re*
Tbh, I’m okay with exclusive (cosmetic) seasonal content.
Games are expensive. A good online multiplayer game requires a stable revenue source and a huge active player base. Seasonal content is one of less scummy ways to achieve both. It spreads the costs better than milking a small number of whales and it incentivizes the average player to play on the regular.
Imo, losing out on a skin cause you didn’t buy/play a specific season is decent trade off. You don’t need to own everything you want.
For the sake of conversation, what’s your opinion on offering the same cosmetic skin for real money if you missed out on the limited time frame?
I’m definitely not a fan of micro transactions overall but I’m generally ok with purely cosmetic ones, within reason. I’m also not a fan of the whole FOMO “I have to have time every day to play a game I enjoy or else I won’t get the fun stuff” bullshit.
If for whatever reason you missed out on some skin or some other purely cosmetic thing should you be able to spend like $1 to get it? This helps financially support the game and doesn’t affect overall gameplay, just personal enjoyment.
I get where you’re coming from. And I agree that most cosmetic content should be available in the store even if you missed the season.
However, it’s okay for some content to be exclusive to the season or event or whatever. Given that the defining feature of exclusive content is that it’s … exclusive … those items are not coming back. And that’s okay.
People need to get over their FOMO. It’s okay to not have everything. You’ll survive.
Personally, my opinion is that I don’t like when other people can force their cosmetics—whether purchased or unlocked—on me. I really like the approach the Age of Empires franchise has taken thus far, where you can unlock or buy profile pictures and other out-of-game cosmetics, or you can unlock mods which effectively are cosmetics, and affect only how the unit appears on your client, still looking like the regular unit for others.
Minecraft made 2 billion before Microsoft turned it into a micro transaction hell, and that game’s development was glacial as fuck.
I’m not buying anymore GaaS garbage. That includes a game I’ve waited years to see, I will skip it if they monetize it like Destiny 2 or Darktide. I’m done with this shit.
