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echodot, do games w Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman

What’s an enormous brain he has, it’s amazing that it fits in his itty bitty head.

So living in the UK which has free healthcare I can tell everybody that it’s super easy to do this.

Obviously I don’t have a job so I can’t afford food, so I just starve myself until I nearly die, and then the NHS turn up and put me in one of those pokeball rehabilitation things and I’m good to go.

prof, do gaming w Gooner game of the year Stellar Blade's mods are 41% smut, ensuring gamers will never see the light of heaven
@prof@infosec.pub avatar

Josh’s articles seem to be bangers most of the time.

Unlike the people he’s writing about, which probably never banged.

dumblederp, (edited ) do games w Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'
@dumblederp@aussie.zone avatar

My Helldivers gripe is that the war bonds cost too much for the casual player. 1000 super credits takes a while to gather, and even grind. Paying actual money for them is about $25aud per war bond. I think there’s eight war bonds now? That’s a full day’s income, and you still need to collect medals to unlock the contents of the warbond.

Edit: You all don’t need to explain this to me, I’m aware of the options for getting super credits. None of that changes how I feel about the game and that I’m losing interest because of it.

lepinkainen,

But you don’t “need” to unlock them all on the day of release, there is no FOMO component, they don’t disappear after a month.

And if you play enough to unlock them faster than they can get them out, you definitely have the time to grind the 1000SC to unlock them.

dumblederp,
@dumblederp@aussie.zone avatar

I’m definitely experiencing FOMO with the warbonds I don’t have. I don’t have the time to play/grind or the inclination to pay for them, so I am missing out. There’s three warbonds that I don’t have and sure I’ll eventually get them maybe but right now I’m missing out. Being able to unlock things is a big part of a game to me. I’m not dedicated enough to HD2 to skip the other games I want to play in order to get the unlocks. The whole process is lowering my interest in the game. I paid for it, I want to use the new toys that get released with it. If I were to buy it today, I’d be so far behind I’d feel short-changed in what I got access to.

lepinkainen,

It’s by far the least scummy of all online shooters.

I still have multiple to unlock and I have no issue paying for them. I have way more money than time to play.

renrenPDX,

Have to disagree. The war bonds have been some of the easiest to pay with in game currency compared to games like cod where their cod points feel next to worthless.

If you are netting very few credits per hell dive, you may be playing with those that don’t need them or playing bots, or a newly released content. Farming on level 1 will often get you with like minded folk, especially before a war bonds release. Farming is quick when you realize you don’t have to extract, just abort to ship.

Redredme,

1000 super credits are easily farmed just by doing missions. Do low level missions, race to the poi’s with the car, rinse repeat.

Fun? No. But you said farming so this is it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

By just playing the game for little over a week, so no farming, just playing, i’ve gathered 700 sc.

The medals are easily gathered doing level 5 and up missions and completing your personal orders. And taking part in the majors of course.

dumblederp,
@dumblederp@aussie.zone avatar

All that stuff is great if you’ve the time. I’ve got maybe 1-2 hours a week for the game.

TronBronson,

Here the thing, if you only play 1-2 hours a week you barely have enough time to get a good load out figured out. Why don’t you just enjoy the game as is, when you have 40 hours in the game you should have unlocked a battle pass. It’s how games are monetized now. Enjoy the content available to you or fork up the cash. Welcome to 2025 we all hate it here.

TronBronson,

If you play 1-2 hours a week you probably haven’t even unlocked the free stuff yet, or got meaningful upgrades. The new guns are not that great. I use the same shotgun from day 1. Same OG kit. The game plays fine without the BPs. The game gives you free access to BP. The core game itself is very fun to play and the rewards come pretty naturally.How is this an issue?

Murvel,

But then, warbonds aren’t necessary to play the game…

Redredme,

If you don’t have the time to read a book,watch a movie or play a game you should not start it.

I’m over 50, like you only have a few hours, i have a tremendous backlog of games i just have to play and a family to provide for. (mechwarrior clans is the first one which comes to mind but i have dozens)

But i came back for this event. You miss nothing. Every weapon you can “buy” does not really alter the game or changes anything. The standard liberator is still one of the very best primaries.

erin,

Ignoring the part about the super credits and fomo stuff, the money confuses me. Is regional pricing so different that you’re paying an additional $10 AUD compared to US and EU pricing? Additionally, $25 AUD as a full day’s income? Even a low hour, part time job earns way more than that. I feel like your situation might not be financially compatible with buying things like that, I’d cheat or pirate if it’s that important to you. $10 USD is not much for DLC, and while I strongly dislike purchasable gameplay mechanics in games, it’s supporting the continued development and it isn’t egregious. $10 is a burger, or a coffee, and I’m saying this as someone well below the poverty line.

Chocobofangirl,
@Chocobofangirl@lemmy.world avatar

They meant buying all eight, which is funky to me since a day’s income for me is more like $120 CAD. edit: but also an extra ten bucks is zero surprise, we already have that issue in cad for exchange rates and aus likes to put extra charges on video games tho i dunno about dlcs.

yeather,

I’m hoping after we beat back the squids the devs give us another free warbond. That should hopefully bridge the gap for new or players who cannot spend money on the game.

Atomic,

It’s 15 AUD, not 25.

As for myself. I play maybe on average 2-3 missions per day.

So 70 ish missions per month. Collect an average of 10sc per mission. That’s 700sc + the 300 you get from the previous warbond.

That sounds very reasonable to me for an average playtime of 1h per day.

DarrinBrunner, do games w Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'

I have almost 6500 hours in FO4, I played today.

I have maybe 300 hours in Starfield, can’t be arsed to look. Haven’t touched it in at least a year.

Bethesda knows how to make great games, but they chose not to. I don’t know why.

That’s my take.

Gregg,

Coming from a long time fan of Bethesda RPGs They have gotten way too comfortable relying on radiant quests and proc gen content. Those aren’t inherently bad, but the way they were implemented in Starfield was. What’s so fun about landing on a planet that appears the same as another a few light years away and seeing the same fucking cryogenics lab with the same layout, items, lore logs, and enemy placement? Chasing the same bounties for a paltry sum of credits (not that you’ll need them it’s easy to break the economy) or legendary loot that you’ll likely just sell (for credits you won’t use)? There are cool things like ship building that could be further fleshed out but so much of the game ended up undercooked and uninspired (space travel with your ship was a glorified screensaver in a game about space traversal for Christ’s sake).

MDCCCLV,

Yes, the second I realized they were actually doing that with literally copy pasted areas and notes and characters it killed the game for me. I can be reasonable for a dungeon having the same layout but not written content and characters. It invalidates the entire experience.

PeterisBacon,

Your take makes me mad. Not because you are wrong or anything, but because you are entirely right and I don’t want you to be lol! I wanted this game to be cool so badly.

BananaTrifleViolin,

I think if Starfield had come out 10 years ago it would have wowed people and been a classic. But now it just seems dated when you have other games doing RPG better (Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate 3) and open world space better (No Mans Sky).

Starfield doesnt do RPG as good as those games, nor does it do open world space as well as No Mans Sky. I’ve heard it described as being as wide as an ocean but as deep as a puddle, and that doesnt seem far off to me.

I really hope Bethesda have paid attention and dont make the same kind of mistakes with Elder Scrolls VI. Big and empty is not the way to go.

network_switch,

Maybe it would have been better received 10 years ago but I don’t know about being beloved like the elder scrolls or fallout games. 10 years ago was Fallout 4 but even in Skyrim era, it’d be great graphics but without the wonderful whimsy

Starfield is too normal. Bethesda games excel when they take the weirdness of the world seriously. Starfield is too serious conceptually. Elder Scrolls, just the concept of everything being canon because of dragon breaks and other weird aedra/daedra/chim/godhead shenanigans lets writers write wild while it still fitting in as serious in universe

They’ve managed to do that well enough with Fallout even though it’s supposed to be alternate reality world. Still wacky even if not as lore interesting as TES

Starfield is too unimaginative of a sci-fi universe so far. It’s too normal and because of that, they can’t write whacky in a way that people buy into and love. So then they end up judging the game by its systems and mechanics and technical merit way more than they do elder scrolls games or fallout.

Also base/ship building is given too much focus for a single player game. These games aren’t pretty enough to be a single player game that gets beloved for base building like Animal Crossing

k1ck455kc,

Great point. I agree that people would likely forgive all of the technical and environmental shortcomings(loading screens and bland environments) if the game had even a slightly interesting story. Anything worth experiencing at all. Unfortunately it fails all 3 of those fronts.

The places where it excels (1st person gameplay compared to other B* games, ship building, and graphics imo) are not enough to make it a game worth experiencing.

It honestly should have had another 2 years in the oven to make the lore and universe more interesting. No way Bethesda wastes another 5-8 years on a sequel with the negative reception Starfield received.

yeather,

I think they will make a Starfield 2 eventually. But most likely in closer to 15-20 years with a fresh set of developers.

k1ck455kc,

Can you think of another commercial failure IP that ever got a sequel? I honestly want to know if this ever happens.

I have to look back and see if Red Dead Revolver was as disappointing as Starfield.

yeather,

Just based on Wikipedia, many commercial failure video games have a sequel made much later on, or have their IP used in a remake or reimagining. Psychonauts is the one I remember since I like the sequel.

k1ck455kc,

The original psychonauts was a cult classic though that got great reviews.

Starfield is in the opposite boat, it doesnt seem to have been a commercial failure, but fan sentiment is really low with the starfield franchise to the point that the hype around a sequel would be nowhere near what it was for psychonauts 2… But this is all my assumption, difficult to find/trust empirical data on fan interest.

yeather,

I think that may play into Starfield 2’s favor. If properly advertised it could reignite the hype for the first game… if it delivered.

Wrrzag,
@Wrrzag@lemmy.ml avatar

It honestly should have had another 2 years in the oven to make the lore and universe more interesting.

I don’t know, I don’t think it would have changed anything. They might have had an interesting quest or two more, but their writing philosophy of not keeping track of anything and working in isolation would not have made a decent, coherent lore in even 10 extra years, just more unconnected shit with extra tonal dissonance.

ms_lane,

There is just so much potential… squandered.

Silly example- why are there elevators and LOADING SCREENS in New Atlantis - if you have enough jetpack or just abuse TCL, you can walk around the entirety of New Atlantis, without a single loading screen.

But for some reason Bethesda decided it needed some loading screens for no good reason whatsoever.

Gronk,

Damn dude, I’m glad you got so much out of FO4 I did one playthrough when it released and tried to play it again this year, barely got into it.

That’s when Bethesda died for me, didn’t find Skyrims simplifications all that good either but it was still a fun game

Feels like Bethesdas modus operandi is to make a game that appeals to everyone and that’s unfortunately coming at the cost of its established fan base

Gradually_Adjusting,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

My Bethesda rant goes something like this: “they think the ideal video game is when you can treat everything like action figures, make anything happen in any combination just to see it happen, bash em together, pull them apart, make them kiss, make them join every team and do every thing, do whatever you want, and then fuck off because it never meant anything”.

yesterday, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game

Let him cook

drmoose, do games w After getting Stardew Valley to 'a good place' with update 1.6, Eric Barone is now fully focused on his next game

I’m not big on Stardew Valley but this dude is an absolute gem!

Kelly, (edited ) do games w Rebellion CEO seems kind of awed by major studios making massive videogames: 'How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?'

So what I really want is a game that gives me a sense of achievement, and with the vaguest possibility that I actually might finish it. And so it’d be really interesting to know how many games are actually finished, and how many games are just abandoned by what proportion of people.

It can be fun to go to an achievement/trophy tracker and compare the numbers for the awards for first and last story missions.

For GTA5 some numbers are:

For Assassins Creed Odyssey:

brucethemoose, (edited ) do games w Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer

People understandably love to hate Oblivion and Fallout 3, but I feel the side quest writing had heart, like groups of devs got to go wild within their own little dungeons. Their exploitable mechanics were kinda endearing.

…And I didn’t get that from Starfield? I really tried to overlook the nostalgia factor, but all the writing felt… corporate. Gameplay, animation, Bethesda jank without any of the fun. I abandoned it early and tried to see what I was missing on YouTube, but still don’t “get” what people see in that game.

If you want a big walking sandbox in that vein, I feel like No Man’s Sky would scratch the itch far better, no?

Meanwhile, BG3 and KC2 completely floored me. So did Cyberpunk 2077, though I only experienced it patched up and modded. Heck, even ME Andromeda felt more compelling to me.

cuteness,

I got Cyberpunk in December and KCD2 in February. At this point I’m convinced I’ve spoiled the entire RPG genre for myself for the next decade. I can’t imagine playing 2 great games back to back like that again.

variouslegumes,

Oblivion is my favorite Elder Scrolls. I actually played it again recently and thought it held up pretty well. I’m a sucker for wandering lush bucolic landscapes though.

brucethemoose,

I’m a sucker for wandering lush bucolic landscapes though.

You should play KC Deliverance 2 if you haven’t. Its forests and rural villages are freaking gorgeous, especially for how “easy” it is to run.

variouslegumes,

Yes! I’ve played a fair bit of KCD 2. Really enjoying it!

leaky_shower_thought, do gaming w Amazon baffled that throwing money at a problem doesn't work

Our assumption was that gamers would naturally buy from us because they were already using Twitch.

i am amazed at how they were able to connect the dots with this one. naturally, like twitch is instantly a game store.

or am i missing a feature they had to bridge a gap here?

Darkassassin07, (edited ) do gaming w BioWare veterans confirm they were laid off by EA, including senior Dragon Age and Mass Effect devs
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca avatar

Ordered merch from Bioware mid-November for an xmas present. It arrived Jan 4th; they shipped the wrong product.

Contacted them 3 seprate times through their ‘contact us’ page and got ignored for 3 weeks. It wasn’t until I filed a chargeback with my cc that they finally emailed me (4 days after submission).

I had asked for my money back in my various emails; but they didn’t respond to that at all and just shipped me a new package.

Still haven’t gotten that, so no idea if they actually shipped the right item this time. It’s not listed on their site anymore; so they likely don’t have inventory to ship.

We’ll see what’s in the box whenever it gets here.

I’ll never spend another dime with EA/BioWare.

parpol, (edited ) do games w Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content

ADL says steam was unsafe after stating that pepe the frog is an extremist symbol to more than double the number of cases found.

Remove the meme, and take into consideration the number of users, 0.1% of users have used some form of extreme symbol or statement. That is a lower ratio of extremism than what Lemmy has.

This is a reach for control and surveillance. Nothing else.

Fuck ADL.

Blazingtransfem98,
@Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online avatar

Oh my god, is this you? discuss.online/modlog?userId=247367

No wonder you hate the ADL, they advocate for the rights of minority people you regularly undermine and attack. They’re working against you, especially because more protections means people won’t take your comments seriously and instead call you what you are, a troll, and you’ll also end up getting banned from more and more places.

@Ategon @erlingur @snowe Just so we’re clear, this person is on your instance, using your platform to spew hate towards minority people on the Fediverse. Just want to make sure you’re aware of this.

parpol,

Yes that is me, and no I am not a transphobe. The ghazi mods banned me because I said that someone losing a visa for something they said is fucked up. I didn’t even know who the person was who lost the visa or what they had done. I have never made any transphobic statements whatsoever, and you can dive deeper through the modlog to find evidence of that because it would show.

Also, I don’t appreciate you trying to cancel me just because I don’t agree with your post. We’re adults here.

Blazingtransfem98,
@Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online avatar

Thinly veiled transphobia is still transphobia, and even if you never said anything transphobic, your modlog shows a clear history of atrocious behavior such as downplaying death threats, engagement/promotion of bigoted ideology and just overall hostility and incivility in general. Things most server owners don’t want on their servers.

Also, I don’t appreciate you trying to cancel me just because I don’t agree with your post. We’re adults here.

No one’s canceling you sweetie, servers have rules, and when you break them or are an ass people won’t want you to be there. You’ve already been banned from quite a few of them, and the fact is a lot of your behavior indeed does go against PD’s CoC. These admins deserve to know since they likely won’t see the reports, and removals unless they’re investigating you personally.

parpol, (edited )

I haven’t downplayed death threats. It was a conversation where someome falsely alleged that someone else had received death threats, which had no evidence, and the person in question never even claimed they had received any.

The rest is just me calling out misinformation about black myth wukong (the sexism allegations that turned out to be mistranslations) and about the harassment campaing against Sweet Baby Inc, bias in gaming journalism, etc.

I’ve never taken a specific political stance in any of their conversations. I just am against misinformation and censorship and call them out when they happen.

The reason I’m against what your post is about, is because ADL were extremely dishonest in their findings, and I think they’re biased or politically motivated to implement restrictions that require users to give up more private information about themselves, or not be allowed free speech.

And no, I didn’t break any rules either. Every ban I’ve faced have all been completely unjustified, which is why I’ve blocked most of the communities I’ve been banned on. It’s like being banned from hexbear and you saying that makes me deserve to get my account removed. The little information you get out of that modlog only shows the mods being biased.

And you would know about biased mods, seeing as you yourself have been banned and then called out after making a thread about it. It isn’t all black and white. I’m not interested in who was right in that post, you or the mod, but you get my point.

Chozo,
@Chozo@fedia.io avatar

Okay, Asmongold.

parpol,

I think every youtuber has talked about this now, not just Asmongold.

Chozo,
@Chozo@fedia.io avatar
parpol,

I made that exact statement in another thread on Lemmy before his video was even out, and it is the most obvious thing to point out so I doubt I was the first to do so either. And the way you phrase it makes it sound like you disagree with the argument. Do you consider pepe to be a dog whistle for racism? Because I think not even a small percentage of conspiracy theorists seriously do that. Or maybe you just want to argue with someone?

Chozo,
@Chozo@fedia.io avatar

Well, the ADL has plenty of details about how and why Pepe is used as a hate symbol, but you already said "Fuck ADL", so I guess you're probably not going to be receptive to their explanation.

parpol,

I already know the story of Pepe and the attempt at portraying it as a hate speech symbol. Almost everyone made fun of them when they first made that statement.

And the thing about Pepe is that he is a meme template. That means he can be used in any ideological statement, greentext story, copy-pasta or anything. It is very apparent that the ADL do not understand internet culture, and that’s why no one took their statement about pepe seriously. They have no idea what they’re talking about.

Chozo,
@Chozo@fedia.io avatar

So you didn't read it, got it.

Dremor,
@Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

Pepe wasn’t initially a racist meme, but was misappropriated by alt-righ groups. The author tried to fight it, but the damages were done. So the addition to the statistic by ADL is valid, but to be taken with the context it is in.

For reference :

knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-the-frog

HawlSera, do games w 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'

I’d have done it just to conclude the story, but then agian, I like stories…

Zetta,

Of ylu watch the video other core half life devs state they regret not finishing episode 3 with estimates thagbitbwoulf have only taken another ~2 years of work.

Although theybalsp pointed out we probably would have not gotten another game in exchange, like maybe portal or tf2

HollowNaught, do games w Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you
@HollowNaught@lemmy.world avatar

Politics are irrelevant

Good writing is good and bad writing is bad

NOOBMASTER, do games w Ubisoft boss says it knows players think it has an 'inconsistency in quality,' so it delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows to flip that script

just don’t buy their games. it’s that simple. go sailing.

Vittelius,
@Vittelius@feddit.org avatar

And that will improve the quality of the games how?

Aedis,

It won’t but you also won’t be disappointed by it if you never play them!

Vittelius,
@Vittelius@feddit.org avatar

Sure, but he didn’t advocate for a boycott, he talked about “going sailing” a.k.a. piracy

Aedis,

Oh. Missed that lol.

LouSlash,

It will over time. They will notice that sales are going downhill so (hopefully) they will start to listen to community complains, maybe also firing some staff until that point because of “financial struggle”.

If sales will stay the same (or be even better) then they will not try to change anything because “if it works, don’t fix it”

GhiLA,
@GhiLA@sh.itjust.works avatar

They’ll go out of business and a more competent company will arise to replace them.

Atherel,

That’s easy, you can’t buy them because according to Ubisoft you won’t own them.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

Katana314,

And I’ll say it again, dumb “quotation” because it only referred to convincing people to try Ubisoft+; which is very explicitly a game rental system.

(Setting aside the change going in through California law where ALL retailers must stop referring to sales as ownership. That affects Assassin’s Creed just as much as your next indie Roguelike)

djsoren19,

You don’t even need to go sailing, you can just stop at not buying their games. Ubisoft has not put out any game I’d really consider a must-play in over a decade. The last interesting Ubisoft open-world game was Black Flag in 2013. Even if you’re an absolute glutton for open-world designed by committee slop, Sony basically ate Ubisoft’s lunch with Ghosts of Tsushima, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Spiderman. Pirate those instead.

Henry, do games w China: Mao's Legacy is like an absurdly specific Paradox game on a tight budget, and also one of the best sims I've ever played
@Henry@lemmy.ca avatar

If you played and shared it on Facebook, would China arrest you the moment you step on its land?

Agent_Karyo,
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

Do you want to conduct an experiment to further our collective knowledge?

I promise to send you letters if you end up in the gulag.

Henry,
@Henry@lemmy.ca avatar

:), I think “I” would tell you I’m ok in that place and find my true purpose of life, :)

Agent_Karyo,
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

And the letters you would get from “me” would be talking about how horrible life is outside of China, how much I love the CCP and how I enjoy spending my time reciting the “Ten affirmations, Fourteen commitments and Thirteen achievements”.

Henry,
@Henry@lemmy.ca avatar

:) and I will show you the real bible in which all “god” is replaced by “Xi”.

TwinTusks,
@TwinTusks@bitforged.space avatar

Silly white man, the gulag is in Russia.

Agent_Karyo,
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

Wrong!

It’s called “исправительная колония” in russia.

Henry,
@Henry@lemmy.ca avatar

China calls it “Zaijiaoyu” Centre, which literally means Reeducation Centre :)

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