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KoboldCoterie, do games w What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner?
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If you enjoy the old school vibe, City of Heroes has been revived through a community effort, and is free with all of the original content plus some new stuff. This has been given official blessing so it’s not going to disappear suddenly.

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?

Lemmy is way too small and insignificant for Industry Plants to be posting on here about SKG, if that is what you are implying.

Doomsider,

Lol you are funny. Propaganda doesn’t come here!

Industry shills will show up on a obscure message board that only a handful of people have ever seen. They are everywhere, they are here.

Tangent5280,

It’s so stupid to think that small message boards are spared; small boards are where they infest with the most enthusiasm; you infiltrate a hundred small boards, one grows into the mainstream and now you have a socmed in your control.

Airowird,

Not only that, you then link to that enthousiastic small board on the big one, as “unbiased source”

daniskarma,

People have opinions. No everyone disagreeing with one opinion or other is a paid actor.

I’m all for SKG. I signed it. And I haven’t actually seen much criticism at all here. But if someone were to disagree I won’t automatically think it’s a paid actor, probably just a person with an opinion.

descartador,

The smaller a community is, the more influence you have. Propaganda here is much more effective than on Reddit

Cornelius_Wangenheim,

Lemmy has 100k users and, more importantly, almost zero countermeasures against botting and influence ops. It would not be some huge undertaking to target this place.

knokelmaat, do gaming w Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.

I am the only one here thinking that Steam should have cracked down on incest themed porn games a long time ago?

Just to be clear, the title of this post is referring to porn games, but in actuality it is about games that literally feature incest (not the step-relative stuff that is so popular everywhere online). All major actual porn sites have rules against incest, but the biggest gaming marketplace on PC should allow it?

Just to make it clear, I find it detestable that this is done because of Visa, especially if this trend continues and suddenly other stuff becomes blocked, but in this case I feel it should have been done way earlier.

Faydaikin, (edited )
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

I’d hope it only refers to actual porn games. Would hate to see a game like RDR2 taken down because there’s a heavily implied incestuous relationship in the game.

kbobabob,

but in actuality it is about games that literally feature incest

A couple of things:

  1. So what? There’s probably all kinds of things out there you didn’t agree with.
  2. This is where they start. First they came for…
FairycorePhoebe,

I guess I don’t see an ethical difference between fictional “step” incest and fictional normal incest. In both cases it involves people that don’t exist. Plus all the ethical issues with incest carry over to step siblings anyway. The idea that one is ok and the other isn’t seems really silly to me.

AFallingAnvil, do games w Day 364 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
@AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca avatar

Just wanted to say it’s impressive as hell that you kept this up so long, I’ve enjoyed following along where I can and offering my two cents :)

network_switch, do gaming w Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam?

They’ll streamline better over time. These open source WINE frontends/orchestrators may as well have 2 eras, before and after Proton. Before Proton they had little developer interest so development was slow. After Proton, influx of users and more developers interest in working on open source Linux gaming tools and Lutris rapidly got better and Heroic popped up. PlayOnLinux got left to historic obscurity in the history of Linux gaming

So I’m not concerned about Steam reliance. Everything outside of Steam is so much easier because of Valves open source contribution and the growth of the community. Pretty much because of Valve, Lutris/Heroic/etc became better at a faster pace and will continue getting because of what Steam did for Linux gaming in the past decade

Kovukono, do games w So is Kingdom Hearts 3 _bad_ or just the normal cringe of Kingdom Hearts?

KH3 is bad. If I wanted to rank the main games, it’d be KH2, KH1 Remastered, KH1 with the original terrible camera and platforming, and then KH3. It’s not functionally broken, but it’s such a disappointment.

The story is a hot mess because you need to play Birth By Sleep to know who Aqua is, and KH 0.2 to figure out how she got to KH3, Dream Drop Distance to know how Sora and Riku got there (which also builds off KH:coded) and to understand why you’re fighting Organization XIII again after you defeated them entirely in 2 and why there’s multiple versions of the big bad, and KH X (the Greek letter pronounced “key”) to know what the hell a random thing that shows up toward the end of the game is. And I’m probably forgetting stuff. I hadn’t played everything, and by the end, I was just sitting back and saying “Yeah, that’s another thing that didn’t make any sense” for about every story point.

The attractions have no place in combat. They make it insanely easy, and I decided to turn them off entirely after I beat a boss just by juggling it on a pendulum ride. The Disney worlds kind of feel bare bones despite their size. It’s pretty, but it’s also empty.

I wanted to love this game so, so much, but they had to cover over a decade of lore because the creator couldn’t finish FFXV, and it’s not brought together in any really coherent or satisfying way. The combat managed to be a step down from KH2. I finished the game, and I was just frustrated because it just was not good.

All that said, for buying it, this game is supposed to tie up all the endings started in the other games. I’d just grab 1.5+2.5, and you’ll still have a good chunk of content if you’ve only played the main games. But if you also want to grab 2.8, buying the bundle is just cheaper.

Mora,
TwinTitans, do games w The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact
@TwinTitans@lemmy.world avatar

Well when the choice is anti consumer, too fucking bad.

vala, do games w Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales

Honestly who cares. Stop buying AAA slop and support indies.

WorldsDumbestMan,

Only open-sourced, homebrewed, and single-person is what we need!

alsimoneau,

10 people or less.

Captain of Industry is a gem with a 4 person team Risk of Rain was 2, expanded to 3

That’s still at a human scale.

Duamerthrax,

Hedon, Cultic, Zortch I think were all solo devs.

LovableSidekick, do games w The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact

Ahh, backpedaling to “defending creators” - that’s a bold move, Cotton.

SatansMaggotyCumFart, do gaming w You would think the dinosaurs would have been a greater discovery then the artifact she is chasing

Tomb raider came out six years after the Jurassic Park movie so Lara Croft knew what she was doing.

PartyAt15thAndSummit, do games w The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact

1.2 million as of now. So fucking proud to be European.

Toneswirly, do games w The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact

Lol publishers curtail developer choice, gtfo

tourist, do games w For people who want to play their favorite games but are unable to, what are you currently doing?
@tourist@lemmy.world avatar

I would probably be unable to buy a PC or console ever again.

Shit dude, that’s rough
If I may ask, what happened?

Otherwise, no nearby gaming cafés? They’re usually reasonably priced

darkguyman,

I haven’t heard of those but I don’t think there’s any nearby anyway.

absquatulate, do games w Developer interview: my Q&A with a PC game 'repacker'

This is a great interview, thank you! It (sadly) confirms some stuff I’ve been suspecting for a while about the piracy scene: that repackers are a very rare bunch, repacking is getting more complex and liveservice/streamed games would truly be the end for piracy.

Eyck_of_denesle,

Repacking main challenge is simply the huge amount of games coming out now. Live service is really not the problem. I won’t be surprised if new genre based repackers come out. But yes repackers are rare cause it’s a huge time investment for no return in any form.

TheFrogThatFlies, do games w The EU initiative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!

Yay! I’m one in a million!

Can we move for a Stop Killing People now!? :)

cecilkorik,

That's definitely a stretch goal. But at least if we can start by stopping them from killing something innocuous like games it shows that we still maybe have some power over them.

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