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ampersandrew, w I understand cosmetic DLCs, but cosmetic "battle passes" are bad
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The business these days is that keeping people online provides value to other players who are considering being online. A big online population means new players have reasons to jump in and play. How do they make sure there's a large population? They create psychological hooks to make sure you keep coming back, rather than making a multiplayer game that's satisfying, that you could play with friends whenever you wanted with small group sizes and your own servers. Because the business is to monetize that pool of players over and over again rather than to keep making new experiences via new games every couple of years.

It is a bad deal. I got into a game called Fantasy Strike. It's a fighting game that boils the genre down to basics and gets you right into the fun. I loved it. It didn't sell a ton of copies. So they updated it to be free-to-play; everything gameplay-related in the game was free (with an asterisk...more on that later) and they monetized it with a bunch of the live service trappings and nonsense that bothered you enough to make this post. Limited time purchases for cosmetics, subscriptions, etc. The thing that made me stop playing it was that they added a replay viewer where, much like in Street Fighter 5 and 6, you can just watch anyone else's replays, including your own, but that replay viewer was locked behind a subscription fee. You know, the feature that people use to get better at the game and see what they did wrong. Monthly subscription. It's a horrendous deal and made me put the game down. You don't get to charge me a recurring fee for something that lives on my own hard drive and gets calculated by my own computer. Likewise, these live service games are all things that could be run without their servers, with private servers or LAN, but they want you to keep seeing these opportunities to buy these ephemeral cosmetics where both they and the game itself are designed to self-destruct once the game stops making money.

manager123321, w I understand cosmetic DLCs, but cosmetic "battle passes" are bad

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realitista, w The Worst Game Console Ever Made...

Wow I think he’s right.

DarkErmac,
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Sadly, LJN Video Art still exists. At least this pretends to be fun.

Zozano, w Pokemon Sleep Hits 10 Million Downloads Milestone and grants users a special gift

Is Pokemon just going to act as a thinly veiled privacy invasion tool?

Pokemon Go encourages you to share your location at all times. Now they want to know when you’re sleeping.

Next app: Pokemon Budget! Upload your invoices to track spending habits and catch rare Pokemon for saving money!

conciselyverbose,

Saving?

I think you mean spending on obscenely high margin stuff.

Zozano,

This weeks special! Catch a Mewtwo by purchasing any two tabacco products or a combined total of one litre of products containing high-fructose corn syrup!

conciselyverbose,

Yeah. In retrospect, I think I was wrong. It would be "save $500 to unlock" on categories where the "50% off" version is still a 200% markup.

all-knight-party,
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I don't totally understand the reasoning behind Pokemon Sleep needing to be a thing, but Pokemon Go's entire core premise requires knowing your location in order for the gameplay to even work at all, so I could understand having an issue with wanting to share your location, but damn, that's pretty much the one case where that'd be understandable.

naqahdah,

Next app: Pokemon Budget! Upload your invoices to track spending habits and catch rare Pokemon for saving money!

… dammit, I’d use this.

tripplehelix, w Pokemon Sleep Hits 10 Million Downloads Milestone and grants users a special gift
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I uninstalled while reading the EULA, stating that all data is stored on their servers. This includes audio recordings. You aint getting my sleep talking advertisers!

Blaze, w Top 10 Awesome Amazon Items right now!
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Goddamnit, you’re back

Jumper99,

<3

daredevil, w Pokemon Sleep Hits 10 Million Downloads Milestone and grants users a special gift

Can't wait to see what other ways these companies gamify farming personal data.

blazera, w Dusk of Dragons: survival game gets global release date - DroidLocal
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Man why cant mobile get actual video games? Let me buy a game, not cheatcodes

CIWS-30, w Destiny 2 players are pre-ordering and cancelling The Final Shape just to get an exotic gun

Honestly, given how toxic Destiny 2's monetization can be, along with its FOMO, I'm not surprised. That + the grind was why I quit. It got tiring and repetitive, especially the buy to play seasons.

wolfshadowheart, w PlayStation Portal Doesn’t Have Bluetooth
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It's pretty absurd, there's no reason Sony products shouldn't work with themselves. The Sony Linkbuds would be a great use case for the Portal but apparently not.

HidingCat, w PlayStation Portal Doesn’t Have Bluetooth

This is such a bizzare narrow product.

twistedtxb,
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It’s almost like they want to make absolutely sure that it will fail

Madison_rogue, w PlayStation Portal Doesn’t Have Bluetooth
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battery life will be comparable to the DualSense controller, which would mean roughly 8-9 hours

Never has my DualSense controller's battery lasted 8-9 hours, especially when haptic feedback is enabled.

Neato,
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3-4 is more like it. And it never wants to charge on usb on my PC for some reason.

Madison_rogue, (edited )
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That's too bad. I use a cradle charger with room for two controllers, so I always have one in standby.

EDIT

The setup works very well.

NegativeLookBehind, w PlayStation Portal Doesn’t Have Bluetooth
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Sony has FOMO in regards to the handheld market and is hoping that their half baked garbage will net them some market share.

Chariotwheel,

They looked at the Vita and thought that the time of handhelds has ended. Only for 3DS jumping up after a rocky first years , the Switch released in fiery success and the Steam Deck even introduced mobile PC gaming.

Madison_rogue, w Destiny 2 players are pre-ordering and cancelling The Final Shape just to get an exotic gun
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For a fusion rifle? Meh...

luthis, w PlayStation Portal Doesn’t Have Bluetooth

Mutahar really ripped into this one.

It’s a wierd play by Sony for sure.

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