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Chronographs, do games w World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive

The game uses every type of dark pattern there is to make you log on every day and soak up all your time.

Poopfeast420,
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How so? I actually think in recent years, they’ve gone away from making you log in all the time, with less daily quest and much better catch up mechanics, so it doesn’t matter too much if you don’t play for weeks or even months.

Chronographs,

That could be true, I quit during battle for azeroth

catloaf, do games w World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive

What is your obsession with WoW? First you make multiple posts about the costs vs. investing that money, now this? Didn’t you also complain about the art style changing, even though multiple people said it’s always been like that?

You really just need to understand that different people have different feelings.

Crashumbc,

This reads like chatgpt garbage also.

PunchingWood,

Yeah and he keeps deleting his posts if they don’t perform well and he gets called out for them.

Honestly should just be banned for botting at this point.

Dremor,
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This was the first of his post to get reported. I don’t ban immediately unless it is obviously a bot trying to link to forbidden content.

catloaf,

Is it reportable when someone makes low-quality AI-generated posts, even if they’re not technically breaking any rules?

Dremor,
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It could fall under rule 4, but would require to be sure that it is indeed AI generated.
There are people that throws AI accusation around with no evidences other that a gut feeling, so I prefer to be cautious.

catloaf,

Makes sense. It’s not conclusive, but this user did make a post with a line like “here’s a breakdown you can post to reddit” until I pointed it out.

Not that it matters in this case, because they’ve already deleted their account.

spankmonkey, do games w World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive

While additional cosmetic options can add variety and personal expression to the game

I guess if bragging about spending extra money to advertise for some company is personal expression, sure.

wirelesswire, do games w World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive

This has been a thing since TCG mounts and pets… back in TBC.

I won’t bother with any more of an argument since you’ll probably nuke this thread, too. I suggest you stop flapping your butt about WoW and go find a game you enjoy that respects your time and money.

adarza, do games w World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive

World of Warcraft’s monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive

of course it is. it’s a microsoft property now.

Yingwu, do games w World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive

I just started playing WoW again and I don’t feel any pressure from the supposed “dark patterns”, or having to buy this stuff (which I can’t, because I’m not in the US). It has zero effect on my gameplay. WoW is fun and addicting in a sense for sure, but there are way worse MMOs when it comes to this. Just look at any Korean MMO, like Black Desert Online. I’d even argue ESO is way worse than WoW when it comes to monetization.

Carighan,
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Yeah it’s the same when people say this about FFXIV, which does have an extensive money-shop for extra mounts/animations/skins/etc.

They’re pricey as hell, but at the same time the only thing you ever might feel pressured into getting are:

  • Fantasia (character do-overs) after enough years because you feel like you’ve seen enough of this face and want another one and want to finally become a cat-girl like everybody else is! The game does however give you two for free, and we’re soon getting a third one, at least temporarily.
  • Character boosts if your friends are being assholes and berate you for not skipping the story (seen it happen), instead of what 99% of the community does which is the exact opposite. 😅
PunchingWood, do games w World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive

The amount you complain about WoW you should probably just quit the game, if you’re even playing it. Also why do you keep making topics and then deleting them? You complained about subscriptions, and now you’re complaining about optional additional cosmetic content.

Like 99% of the community likely doesn’t care about promotional stuff. You can just pay the game and subscription and get access to all gameplay features just fine. If someone spends hundreds of bucks to get some useless promotional item, then let them. It doesn’t affect my gameplay.

Yeah, you can buy a mount from the store that saves you like a 2 minute walk or flight to your closest auction house, ironically I’ve never ever seen anyone even use these mounts outside of the cities that have actual auction houses, they’re usually just next to a mailbox or bank across the street of the auction house.

The fact that these things sell is probably one reason why subscriptions in the past 20 years haven’t rising in the first place.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble, do gaming w Upscaling really is black magic

I actually really dislike DLSS and FSR. At least to me the upscaling is pretty noticeable (but not the end of the world), but the artifacts that it causes drive me insane. I haven’t tested Onion Ring with it. But for example FH5 I get all sorts of ghost images on my screen and they go away as soon as I turn off DLSS.

Also weirdly on my laptop I got worse performance. I’m assuming that’s because I’m 100% CPU limited and there is a bit of CPU overhead to running DLSS.

Rudee,

From what I understand, FSR1 is not a temporal upscaled, so it shouldn’t have ghosting.

That does cause the quality to be lower, though

itslilith,
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onion ring

lmao

ViscloReader, do games w How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers?

Buy one for the living room, oled or standard. Then, if requests / frustrations about playing asynchronously piles up. Consider buying another for the most invested of all. Take physical copies also. They’re easier to share.

cdipierr,

I started with just one, and was buying digital games. I quickly found as each child gets to 6-7, they need their own switch. So I’m sitting at 4 right now, and agree hard on physical games.

Aielman15, do games w World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive
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  • catloaf, (edited )

    Archived for when OP deletes this post too: archive.is/ClLBn

    Edit: seems they elected to delete their account instead. Oh well, I suppose with that name they didn’t intend to think before posting anyway.

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  • Buttflapper, (edited )

    Thanks for contributing in unneccessary witch hunting. You’ve shown that Lemmy can be just as petulant and inhospitable as reddit. Nothing I have ever written is AI generated, such a weird criticism and hilarious to lob that at someone considering that even million dollar tech companies who have made “ai detectors” have failed spectacularly with false positives. But you dislike what I say so you’re 100% correct, right? yea that makes sense dude sure.

    It’s amusing to me how you felt the need to write this incredibly long “shame on you” rant, like you were really that bothered by some words you saw that you had to write up a long witch hunt and try to harass me.

    Dremor, (edited )
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    If you feel like an user may be a bot, please report it to a mod so we can put said user under observation in order to access its behavior.

    Your comment seem well documented, but that’s something that should be sent to the mods via PM, not posted on the open.
    If you were wrong, and he was legit, you’d have triggered an harassment campaign against him by encouraging others to just conclude he must be a bot because someone said so with a lengthy comment they don’t have the time to fully check.

    Edit: clarifying why this shouldn’t be done that way, as my previous take was kinda harsh (I was a bit tired)

    kalr, do games w World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive

    World of War craft would rather you have diabetes by the looks of things.

    Blackmist,

    Meanwhile Final Fantasy XIV is doing a collaboration with hair dye.

    ThunderComplex, do gaming w Upscaling really is black magic

    Yeah I’m a big fan of upscaling myself. I hear a lot of complaints on the internet that this means developers won’t optimize their games because upscaling exists, but I think it’s great because it gives older/weaker GPUs (like your 3060) some longevity.

    Heck, I use DLSS on my 4080 when I don’t want a game to suck so much power.

    WolfLink, do gaming w Upscaling really is black magic

    DLSS is extremely noticeable to me at stronger levels. I usually turn it on but keep it set to “quality” instead of “performance”. It’s still slightly noticeable but not that bad at that setting.

    Stronger DLSS just looks like blurry mush to me.

    Poopfeast420, (edited ) do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 10th
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    More Baldurs Gate 3 in coop with a friend. We’re in the Underdark, gonna kill some Dwarves next time and Gnome and probably everything. We’re just complete murderhobos.

    Then I heard about Vampire Hunters, which is kinda Vampire Survivors, but as an FPS. It’s fun and there are a few more maps to beat, but I don’t know if it’s going to have as much staying power as some of these other games I’ve played.

    Also, more Metroidvanias. I played through Elderand, and don’t think it’s very good. For some reason, I got lost and didn’t know where to go at some point, which I don’t remember ever happening with another game. It turned out to be a way up some platforms I just missed, but it took a lot of time with me just running around, until I looked at a video playthrough. Even if that’s just a skill issue on my end, some of the other parts, aren’t that good either. The map seems to be a bit inconsistent, which didn’t help finding the correct way. Combat is extremely repetitive, with every melee weapon having the same three-hit combo, even dual-wield daggers or a whip. There’s a crafting system for potions and upgrades, but it’s useless, because basically no materials drop. Definitely do not recommend this one.

    I decided to buy Ender Magnolia, the follow-up to Ender Lilies, which is currently in Early Access. There’s not a lot to do right now, it took me a bit under two hours to get through everything, but it’s fun. Definitely wait for the full release though, unless you want to pre-order this game or something.

    Finally, I also got Prince of Persia The Lost Crown. It’s much bigger than the other metroidvanias I played recently. I’m almost 20 hours in and about halfway done. It plays well and I gotta say, I really like the feature to take a picture, so you can see where you missed something and don’t just go back 20 times, just to realize you can’t get there yet. Combat against regular enemies can be a bit boring, since enemies are a bit spongy. Bosses are neat though, especially since you have a parry and interrupting boss moves feels great. There’s also a ton of platforming, which can get really tricky. The story is complete garbage and makes no sense, but whatever. The game is kinda expensive, but I got it on sale, which was fine. Since it’s an Ubisoft game, it’s probably going to be on sale for -75% in a few months.

    Rant: Why are some of these metroidvanias so stingy with their fast travel? In Prince of Persia and Animal Well you can only travel to specific points of the map, although in Animal Well you could at least get to the teleporters from anywhere on the map. In Prince of Persia, you need to find the teleporter, to get someplace else, which can get really annoying. Just let me travel to and from every save point. Even Elderand, for all its faults, lets you do this. In Prince of Persia, in the DLC area you can actually teleport between save points, probably since they realized the other system sucks.

    JoMiran, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 10th
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    Wayfinder

    Kissaki,

    Is it good?

    Wayfinder on Steam

    JoMiran,
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    Gameplay is good. Think of it as a third person Diablo/Hades looter. Solid AA title for a good price.

    Don’t ask me about the story because in games like these I never pay attention.

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