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  • Ivysaur
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    2 months ago

    I don’t think it’s quite fair to say multiplayer games are the cause of things like ranking modes and battle passes and vbucks. Might as well say we took a wrong turn at high scores; quarters were the original mtx.

    • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      2 months ago

      Oh so you’re why the other person(different reply) is getting mad about people saying arcade games are MTX!!! I see!

      But look right, you can’t really effectively monetise a single player game that way, it’s always some kind of mmo thing no matter how they spin it. It’s more that multiplayer has always been an instinct of devs it seems, and it can’t coexist with singleplayer games healthily under capitalism when publishers could be bringing out a Battlefront II or an Apex Legends.

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        2 months ago

        I was being a bit flippant with the arcade microtransactions thing. My point is really that multiplayer does not a priori mean capitalist degradation any more than any other thing existing in capitalism does. Pretty much every gacha game is single player to my knowledge.

        I’ll be frank and say modern gaming has not captured my interest in at least a decade and continues to fail to do so. I don’t know anything about battlefront or apex legends. I won’t go as far as to say this is prescriptive of anything but I think it’s at least worth earnestly analyzing why this seems to be such a phenomenon now- call me lazy, I guess. It must go deeper than nostalgia. Plenty of games were bad when I was younger, still.