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GhiLA, do games w Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat?
@GhiLA@sh.itjust.works avatar

I usually solve this issue by… just playing something else.

It sounds hard, but I assure you, nothing is impossible.

boonhet,

There’s about 5 games a decade that are exciting anymore even, unfortunately. I might just have to give up gaming then.

darkstar,

You’re obviously looking in the wrong place for games then…

iamdefinitelyoverthirteen,

False.

Amir,
@Amir@lemmy.ml avatar

Baldurs Gate 3

boonhet,

That’s one yeah

zalgotext,

I encourage you to explore the wonderful world of indie games, and free yourself from the shackles and shitty anti-cheat implementations of the AAA/AAAA gaming industry

Nibodhika,

I can cite way more than 5 excellent games from this decade from the top of my head, We’re almost in 2025, so I’ll limit to games released in or after 2015:

  • Factorio
  • RimWorld
  • Stellaris
  • Fallout 4
  • Overcooked 2 (and all you can eat)
  • Life is Strange
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • Before your eyes
  • Dead Cells
  • Shadow Tactics
  • Cities Skylines
  • The outer worlds
  • Two point hospital

I can keep going, but this is just from the top of my head, there are always good games getting released, and very rarely they’re AAA.

ipkpjersi,

There are tons of good games always coming out even recently, unless you only like multi-player games.

xavier666,

If you spend a little time on the dark alleyways of Steam, you will occasionally come up with hidden gems. The indies scene is currently thriving.

Eyck_of_denesle, do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

Windows comes bundled with solitaire. How is it allowed in schools?

A_Union_of_Kobolds,

Give the kids Linux! Build a generation of superusers!

warmaster,

Supertux depicts imagery of speeding, misdemeanor and felony. +18 Age rating for Torvalds and all of his derivatives.

turbowafflz,

I think the current microsoft version of solitaire has microtransactions and ads so is actually significantly worse

vaultdweller013,

Why, how, the fuck do you add microtransactions to fucking solitaire?!

iAmTheTot,

It’s not really micro transactions as much as it is a monthly subscription to remove ads.

vaultdweller013,

Its fucking solitaire you can play the old version from windows 95 online for free. This is beyond fucking stupid.

iAmTheTot,

If that satisfies you then all the power to you.

FuzzyDog,

Real question, why wouldn’t the win95/xp version satisfy someone? Isn’t it the same thing with simpler graphics?

iAmTheTot,

I can’t speak for other people, I don’t even play solitaire. Realistically, I imagine most people get new PCs with newer Windows versions and play whatever solitaire is on there.

vaultdweller013,

Im a Utilitarian to a fault, of course I think the windows 95 version is just as valid. I wear everything down to scrap.

Zangoose,
@Zangoose@lemmy.world avatar

Step 1: Add ads into [insert app of choice here] that are really annoying

Step 2: Make people pay to get rid of them. Bonus points if it’s a subscription

Step 3: People hate your app but it’s the one that’s installed by default so they use it anyway

Step 4: Profit

vaultdweller013,

The fact that this business model earns moneu rather than car bombs annoys me.

RogueBanana,

They added micro transactions and ads to fucking solitaire? How have I not heard about this till now…

TriflingToad,

iirc it’s a subscription too

iAmTheTot,

This isn’t really new. Solitaire has had ads for over a decade now since Windows 8, and there is a monthly premium subscription to remove them. As I understand it they also don’t show during offline play, but might be wrong about that.

redhorsejacket,

Offline play? It’s SOLITAIRE. Offline play should be the ONLY play, by default.

Feeling like I took crazy pills this morning…

ggtdbz, (edited )

If it makes you feel better/worse, the subscription is shared across multiple games. I was playing a bunch of Microsoft Jigsaw at one point (don’t ask), and while you could play as much as you’d like for free, the fact that they squeezed ads into it to extort you (or more likely, clueless older people) really cheapened the whole thing.

They had a lot of pretty photos which were probably not free, but come on, this is Microsoft, they have the money. I think this should’ve been bundled with Windows for free. I truly think a lot of people might even look back on it fondly the way they do with a lot of the older bundled-in games. We will take for granted how much the default option with any sort of technology around us has an impact on us as kids. Maybe not everyone, but not everyone loved pinball or inkball.

Actual textbook enshittification: what was once a space for a nice default thing to fall back on if you were bored and had their operating system has now become an “opportunity” to “generate more business.” Very sad. Computers are impossibly wonderful machines, everyone who has access to one should be able to enjoy a few basic things, packed in, for free - with no strings attached (looking at you candy crush).

I’m sure there’s a nice free or paid jigsaw game made with love out there that could satisfy that itch I felt that one week in 2020. Hm.

Edit: I have now redownloaded Microsoft Jigsaw and might just expand this comment into a full post/rant about the state of modern consumer software through the lens of Microsoft’s current casual games suite

iAmTheTot,

There are daily challenges and things like that which is what I would refer to as online play. Not that crazy imho of you’ve put thousands of hours into vanilla solitaire that you may welcome something to spice it up.

RogueBanana,

Damn I have fond memories of those games back in xp and 7 era but ig enshitification is evitable when it comes to Microsoft

AwesomeLowlander,

You’re being funny, right? Tell me you’re just kidding

the_post_of_tom_joad,

I can’t see any news that you can ‘pay to remove ads’ but lots of “how do i remove ads in solitaire” with settings instructions or registry edits so i think op is only half right

AwesomeLowlander,

Jesus I’m so glad I moved to Linux

pixelscript,

I also don’t think it comes pre-installed anymore, you have to get it through Microsoft’s meme store that no one uses.

absquatulate,

MTX and ads? Then it’s clearly only 3+ and should be allowed lol

Maggoty,

Because you don’t place bets on your solitaire hand.

ech,

Maybe look into the game being discussed even a little before commenting on it.

Maggoty,

I did. I’m not going to go buy it for this though. They literally use poker terms, poker imagery, and real poker hands. Saying it’s just because there’s cards involved is disingenuous.

ech,

And yet you say it’s cause of “gambling”. So you’re either lying about looking into it or lying about what you saw.

Maggoty,

This is all on their steam page dude.

ech,

So lying about looking into it. Got it.

Overshoot2648,

You could use the same for majong or pachinko like games like Peggle. The issue is the actual gambling, not just the game elements or risk, reward, and points going up. Loot boxes are 10× worse.

Maggoty,

No, we know that stuff that glorifies addictive activities can recruit or cause relapse as well.

tlou3please, do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

I wish lawmakers had some balls on this subject. If there’s gambling, they should have to register as a gambling company and comply with all the other restrictions on gambling advertisements in each jurisdiction.

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

The problem here is that Baltaro does not have gambling. It just uses cards and chips as the basis for playing the game. Like Magic the Gathering or Inscryption.

Takumidesh,

Using chips is even a stretch honestly. There are some chip imagery here and there but otherwise ‘chips’ are just how points are called.

Maggoty,

They also base it on poker, yeah cards can transform each other but it’s still quite literally a poker game. This isn’t MTG. (Which is just real life loot boxes)

BlueMagma,

But poker is only a gambling game because when you play it you “give up” something of value in the hope of winning more through playing and randomness. What makes it gambling is not the cards or the chips it’s the gambling aspect. Balatro uses card and poker hands, and so does “yatzhee”, but it does not use any gambling mechanic. Lootboxes on the other hand use gambling mechanic.

Maggoty,

Which is why PEGI didn’t say it was literally gambling, they said it was imagery of gambling.

sukhmel,

Although you may be right about why they did it, I feel like imagery of gambling is not meant to be ‘something that is in any way related to something that happens to be gambling’, it’s when gambling is shown but you’re not the one gambling. If someone in game is gambling that’s imagery, if a game uses cards for something that is not gambling it’s not imagery.

Arcka,

Is there betting (such as buy-in / ante) in Balatro?

Is there in MtG?

Lowpast,

No, there are no bets, no buy in.

v4ld1z,

There used to be ante in MTG. You’d play for cards in each other’s decks and were to keep them if you won the game. Plus, there were a number of cards actively interacted with the ante’d cards and added or changed what’s in the ante

caut_R, do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

They haven’t understood the game at all, I wonder if they even looked at it for more than two minutes

Run game > see playing cards and poker chips > close > PEGI 18

CosmoNova,

They’re not looking into blatant gambling in AAA titles, of course they won’t take a closer look into an indie game. They’re completely useless.

pachrist,

Ah, but there are also tarot cards, which is spooky Occult voodoo magic. Balatro backwards might spell “Satan is Lord” in some ancient druidic script.

KinglyWeevil,

Praise Otralab!

sukhmel,
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EarMaster,
@EarMaster@lemmy.world avatar

It can’t be that easy. PEGI says that games containing gambling (real money or not) are rated with PEGI 12 to 18. So there must be something else to the game that led to this rating.

9bananas,

or…you know… they’re just morons.

sukhmel,

Maybe winning a game award while being solo developer studio, it feels like this to me

roguetrick, do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

Reminds me of that Australian law that was proposed to make anything with a relation to casino games Restricted 18 but merely mature for exploitative slot machine loot box mechanics.

HawlSera,

I haven’t seen Loot Boxes in a game in awhile, I kinda prefer those to FOMO…

I think the perfect system is you earn Loot Boxes by playing that can contain anything, but you can buy the specific things you want at any time, the boxes themselves are unlocked through gameplay.

Heroes of the Storm did this, and god I miss that game.

I wish DBD did it

v4ld1z,

HOTS 2.0 did so much good, man. It’s a shame the game’s basically dead. Was a lot of fun to play with my brother

I realised that what brought me back to League was Wild Rift. Maybe of HOTS had a “mobile” adaptation, I’d come back. Just not much (if at all) a PC gamer nowadays

HawlSera,

There were rumors Microsoft were going to revive it, which lead to people playing the game, which lead to it getting balance patches again… but no new content drops sadly

v4ld1z,

Soon™

jagungal,

Sounds about right. I’d seen “slot machines” (we call em poker machines or “the pokies”) more times than I can remember before I was 18.

youstolemyname,
@youstolemyname@lemmy.world avatar

“the pokies”

You ever Google that?

jagungal,

No, why?

Commiunism, do gaming w Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society?

Disco Elysium features communism and communists (bad) but also has a couple of homosexuals (a secret cabal of organized people dead-set on destroying the ideals of nuclear family) as characters. I’d suggest you guys avoid the game at all costs, it’s too dangerous.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA, do gaming w what's a game that has you like:
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

The quest for glory series was my favorite in its time. I still replay it every now and then

VolumetricShitCompressor, do gaming w Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society?

Harvest Moon teaches that everybody can own land and live a good life self-sustainable off of his own work.

Goingdown, do gaming w what's a game that has you like:

Kingdom Come Deliverance. Low fantasy, no map marker (in hard mode), no superhumans or anything too fancy…

TheFriar,

Is this the most recent Kingdom Come 2? I’d been thinking of getting it myself, I play great stories over and over (RDR2, Cyberpunk, Alan Wake 2). But I’ve literally played them all so much that I’m about to be tired of replaying them. So I need a new game to 100% complete, this and STALKER2 have been on my list, but S2 hasn’t been released for ps5.

Goingdown,

Is this the most recent Kingdom Come 2? I’d been thinking of getting it myself

No, first one. 2 has not been released yet.

SweetCitrusBuzz, do gaming w Balatro is rated PEGI-18 and Among Us inspires disgruntled people with medical needs. What other video games have been secretly eroding the very fabric of American society?
@SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org avatar

I Was A Teenage Exocolonist

mudmaniac, do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

I’m hopelessly addicted to gatcha. When I saw this I bought Balatro.

turtle, do gaming w what's a game that has you like:

Project Zomboid, even though I’m not into zombie lore.

  • Isometric perspective graphics, one of my favorite game perspectives
  • Open world, open-ended, sandbox play with enough of a game objective to not be boring
  • Hardcore survival with deep, often surprising mechanics
  • Amazing multiplayer experiences
  • Loads of suspense and tension
  • Constant development from a small, totally independent team
  • Incredible array of community mods

I would love to see other games in the same vein using other scenarios besides zombies, like maybe warzone survival, etc.

DScratch,

You say “open ended” but it’s not. Project Zomboid has one ending.

turtle,

Haha, true. Infinite paths to reach the one ending, but still one ending. ;)

DerisionConsulting, do gaming w what's a game that has you like:

Strange Flesh, but in a more literal sense, to a subby bottom bear.

www.greatestbear.com/strangeflesh/app/index.html

umbraroze, do games w PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery

Hngh. Balatro already had a bunch of hassle on Switch eShop due to the PEGI ratings change.

Earlier, Nintendo somehow got a PEGI 12 rating for 51 Worldwide Games, which includes poker and blackjack. I wonder what they argued to avoid the 18 rating. “Sure, this compilation has poker and blackjack, but it’s not like we made it fun.” (It’s adequate but compared to Balatro it’s very much a non-frills experience.)

RixMixed,

I believe 51 Games came out right before the stricter PEGI policy. Same year at least. The whole thing is very silly.

themoonisacheese,
@themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works avatar

“sure our game has gambling elements, but we’re Nintendo so shut the fuck up and give us a better rating because you’re a private company in the business of giving ratings”

olafurp, do gaming w what's a game that has you like:

Factorio

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