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LittleWizard, w Rockstar acquires GTA 5 roleplay devs Cfx.re

Is this a good or a bad thing?

mom,

Is a bad thing. They will probably close it down.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Or worse, fill it with microtransactions.

Meowoem,

Only time will tell, it could go either way but it could mean the best bits of fiveM get included in VIo which could be fantastic.

Lojcs, w Researchers find China's game time limits ineffective in reducing excessive play

Is data from unity enough to draw conclusions? Wouldn’t they need data from other engines too?

Also unity collecting statistics from games using its engine and sharing them with other people is yuck

nanoUFO,
@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works avatar

For unity, it’s becoming a you are the product type of deal oh and trend chasing.

janNatan, w Baldur’s Gate 3 studio seeks full list of localizers left out of the game’s credits

It’s a pity that other languages weren’t voice acted. I understand it would probably be prohibitively expensive with a game like this.

GyozaPower,

And probably not as high quality. The voice acting in thsi game is a 10/10. I doubt that, to put my own languages, it would be nearly as good in Spanish.

Afrazzle,

I’ve ran into some conversations were some of the characters lines noticeably sound like they’re recorded from a different mic/in a different studio. Other than that it has been nice to have so much of the game voiced.

Saledovil, w After 27,000+ Steam reviews, Overwatch 2 is graded as 'Overwhelmingly Negative'

They probably had it coming.

koyo, w After 27,000+ Steam reviews, Overwatch 2 is graded as 'Overwhelmingly Negative'

blizzard is ass. i hope they go bankrupt one day.

Twink, w After 27,000+ Steam reviews, Overwatch 2 is graded as 'Overwhelmingly Negative'

I didn’t realize they released it on Steam. They chose a terrible time. Remnant 2 is out, so is Baldurs Gate 3. Dead by Daylight has Alien expansion around the corner. They’re too late. But a good step. I hate battlenet.

JackGreenEarth, w Researchers find China's game time limits ineffective in reducing excessive play

Nobody seems to be saying this, but a 16yo playing 2hrs or more any day is ok and their choice. Making anyone under 18 only allowed to play 1hr a week is overly controlling and uncompromising - much like the rest of China’s policies.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yup. We limit our kids (2 under 10)to 2hr/day, though they need to “earn” that time by reading, and we give them a free hour each week.

We think that’s fair, and that’s our choice as parents. As they get older, we’ll give them more freedom to set their own rules.

If my local government made the same restrictions as I make, I would totally oppose it. I as a parent should decide what my house rules are.

simple, w After 27,000+ Steam reviews, Overwatch 2 is graded as 'Overwhelmingly Negative'

50,000 reviews now. It’s a shame, I used to play OW1 a lot even after they stopped providing new content for it. Came to OW2 and I just couldn’t be arsed to grind for characters I don’t have unlocked. You need to win 35 games, and since there’s a basically forced 50% winrate that means you need to play 70 games to unlock a character each time. Wanted to play Ramattra, saw he’s locked, uninstalled and didn’t look back. The monetization is terrible. The balance feels worse than it’s ever been.

This wouldn’t be such a problem if they didn’t literally SHUT DOWN OVERWATCH 1 to shove people into the cash shop grind sequel

vettnerk,

I know next to nothing about neither Ow1 or OW2, but from the sound of it they turned OW2 into a game focused on grinding, where you can pay to skip (part of) the grind. Is my assessment correct? If so they must’ve looked at War Thunder and taken that idea.

Mic_Check_One_Two,

Yes. OW1 cost money, but you got all the content. The only paid service was cosmetic outfits for the different characters. You could buy loot boxes for cosmetics. But you had all of the characters, maps, game modes, etc available to begin with. You got the whole game, then could grind for cosmetics.

OW2 takes that and flips it on its head. The game is free, but each character costs money. The problem is that they shut down OW1, so now the players who owned 1 are having to grind for everything. They’ve also had some weird server bugs, with players getting indefinitely locked out of characters they already own.

Cryst,

Wait. I bought overwatch 1 but stopped playing a few years ago. If I go back into overwatch I would have to grind for characters that I used to previously have access to?

derpgon,

No, this applies only to characters released in OW2. All the original characters should still be playable for free.

JeffCraig,

Fuck everyone that played OW2

How stupid do you have to be to see this train wreck coming and still contribute.

Hopefully after OW2 and Diablo 4, people finally stop downloading Blizzard games.

Version,

I personally have no problem with the monetization, but the balance is really, really bad.

Contend6248,

I really don’t need another subscription in my life

Version,

Yeah, but honestly I don‘t think it ruins the game. Sure, it’s not the best idea, but I don‘t care too much. I actually care more about the fact that the gameplay currently sucks and is completely different to Overwatch 1. 5v5 and the overall balancing sucks.

zalgotext,

The balance of OW2 is way better than OW1 though. OW1 was a boring shield-shooting simulator for the last 2 or 3 years of it’s life.

Pxtl,
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That’s not the balance, that’s the gameplay. There are still balance problems like the era of Mercy damage amping.

And while they’ve solved the CC and barriers problem, they’ve made teamfights too swingy. With only 5v5 and a single op tank, teamfights are often basically over after a single death or a single Rez. Especially for the tank. That’s just too much pressure, so nobody wants to tank anymore.

zalgotext,

Shields were too strong in OW1, so much so that the meta revolved around having two shield tanks. How is that not a balance issue?

I agree there’s too much pressure on the tank currently, but I’ll definitely take that over the problems 6v6 OW had.

Pxtl,
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

So don’t? You get the new hero like a month or so later then. I haven’t put a dime into ow since I bought it. You don’t need the cosmetics. Let the dumb whales fund the game.

Contend6248,

Have you played OW before? I can’t imagine a hero which wasn’t OP on release, fuck that game and it’s P2W subscription

Pxtl,
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

Picking lifeweaver at his release was widely considered throwing.

verysoft, w After 27,000+ Steam reviews, Overwatch 2 is graded as 'Overwhelmingly Negative'

Good, they absolutely fucking butchered the game just to sell cosmetics and heroes.

theodewere, w Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine
@theodewere@kbin.social avatar

8 years for scaring Vladimir with your words, you naughty boy

theodewere, w After 27,000+ Steam reviews, Overwatch 2 is graded as 'Overwhelmingly Negative'
@theodewere@kbin.social avatar

unlike Baldur's Gate 3, absolutely everything about this game was designed specifically with microtrans in mind

Bizarroland,
@Bizarroland@kbin.social avatar

Oh my God, you can't just say microtrans. The proper terminology is "gender dysphoric little person"

yeather,

Actually that’s the wrong use of that word in this context. It’s actually a “queer questioning point of sale system” he’s talking about.

theodewere,
@theodewere@kbin.social avatar

could be short for microtransient, and then we're talking about little hobos.. and who doesn't want to talk about little hobos..

vaultdweller013,

No no no thats also wrong, it stands for micro transmission. Ya know for small vehicles.

kostel_thecreed,

Even you got it wrong! They were talking about the micro figurines for transformers! How you could miss that!!!

1984,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

pcgamer.com/how-blizzards-reputation-collapsed-in…

Blizzard used to be great. Now they are awful.

arefx,

They’ve been awful since Activision got involved. I knew that was the end the day the news broke, people told me I was wrong. I wish.

Also they sexually harassed an employee to suicide. That tells you all you need to know.

Omega_Jimes,

Blizzard has been on a downward trend for a lot longer than 3 years.

Jamie, w Rockstar acquires GTA 5 roleplay devs Cfx.re
@Jamie@jamie.moe avatar

“By partnering with the Cfx.re team, we will help them find new ways to support this incredible community and improve the services they provide to their developers and players.”

Allow me to translate:

“By partnering with the Cfx.re team, we will help them find new ways to bleed the community’s wallets dry and force servers to pay a cut of their monetization revenue and offer nothing substantial in return.”

weirdo_from_space, w Baldur’s Gate 3 studio seeks full list of localizers left out of the game’s credits

BG3 guys continuing to be awesome.

weirdo_from_space, w Researchers find China's game time limits ineffective in reducing excessive play

Spending too much time with games or internet either implies serious problems the person is trying to escape from, or a lack of alternative activities. Trying to force the people to stop won’t do anything, the goal should be to make it so people don’t feel the need to rely on these two as much.

nanoUFO,
@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works avatar

If someone is bored they will just move to the next most dopaminergic activity, I would know I stopped playing all games one year at university and all I managed to do is read a bunch of books namely 2000 chapter Chinese xianxia novels. Me deciding to purely grind schoolwork was the thing that actually had any impact.

Belgdore, w Overwatch 2’s Story Missions Are Good, But Not $15 Good

Overwatch has had an identity crisis since Jeff Kaplan left. It’s a husk of what it used to be and a disappointment of what it could be.

It was supposed to be tf2 with moba elements. But now it’s trying to be left4dead with moba elements. I think it would be better off to return to roots and just keep innovating on the character and weapons and skills.

Anyway fuck blizzard.

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