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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The rich can easily exploit the political system and lobby for favorable laws = Not only is it pay to win, the devs suck the dicks of their biggest whales

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

It's pay to win, where if you pay enough, the devs will add customized cheats that only work for you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Whistleblowing corruption is dangerous and might often end in persecution against the whistleblower = Reporting cheating whales is a surefire way to get yourself banned

The wealth inequality gap is mind-boggling = You'd need to grind nonstop for a total of 5 billion hours to buy one of everything on the cash shop

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too many gold sinks at low level, not enough gold sinks at high level.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

WAY too much grinding at lower levels and the racial stats are all kinds of imbalanced

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I haven't been here long but I imagine c/outside exists?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

if it doesn't, make it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

c/outside
Outdoors / Nature / Green Things

huh?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think they meant the sub where life is treated like a game, a very poorly designed game (almost as if there was no Designer, just people).

Things like, "I'm level 18, should I spec my character into the biochem, robotics, or software guild?"

Or "What's the cheat code for an affordable surgery?"

You get the idea. Life's a game. And it sucks. Stupid devs.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish they would properly announce the UFO DLC already. All we have is rumors and hearsay.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I'm personally of the opinion that the hints aren't for the UFO expansion, but it's probably teasers for the World War 3 event, combined with camera artefacts and general player secrecy.

It's sad too. Everyone wants some good new DLC. All this PvP shit is getting out of hand. :(

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Affordable surgery is exclusive to the European servers, it seems.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[email protected] exists :) Not too active, but we can change that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They probably spend too much time outside to bother with it ;)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

True lol. Probably distracted with all the grindy sidequests.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No respawn. Gambling mechanics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No respawn

Do we know that for certain, what if past oifes are previous spawns

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Inherited Wealth perk is ridiculously broken.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

It's 90% grinding and 10% actual gameplay

[–] derHolz 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How could the creator of the image miss the opportunity for it to say "we live in a society"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Good point. That's probably the libertarian gamer's answer to all of it 🤦

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spawn points are busted and too heavy RNG

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is the richkid class locked for me?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your parents need to buy the DLC first!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah the poor kid class builds the story better

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Skin color is still a difficulty selector.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Capitalism is very unpoggers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This thread got me thinking, do we have a replacement for r/outside on Lemmy? That sub was pretty entertaining at times

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If someone finds one please tell me

[–] Goldmage263 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the downvoters want to buy more votes mine only costs $500. You can send you money to the nearest food pantry or food bank.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is reformist language at best...

Edit: Sorry for my harsh words. It's just ... the raw urgency and essence of the original criticisms here have just been squeezed out when converted into gamer-code language...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What exactly are you looking for then? Sounds like normal points to me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Promises of infinite exponential capital growth => Feature creep

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Ah fuck you all, I will just spin up my own server for me and my friends.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"This game needs to be more consumer friendly." liberalism

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah the consumerist rhetoric in game reviews (and the entire technology press more broadly) dooms all of their attempts at analysis to be extremely shallow. Maybe one day a journalist will pay attention in one of their media studies classes and read the fucking Adorno reading that one of their teachers assigned, but that day has not yet come.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Arise ye gamers from your slumbers Arise ye prisoners of ea For reason in revolt now thunders And at last ends the age of games journalism. Away with all your superstitions Servile masses arise, arise We’ll change henceforth the old tradition And spurn the dorito dust to win the prize.

So squad mates, come rally And the last fight let us face The Internationale unites the pc master race.

No more deluded by reaction On pay to win only we’ll make war The pvpers too will take strike action They’ll break ranks and fight no more And if those cannibals keep trying To sacrifice us to their pride They soon shall hear the bullets flying We’ll teamkill the generals on our own side.

No saviour from on high delivers No faith have we in prince or peer Our own right hand the chains must shiver Chains of hatred, greed and fear E’er ea will out with their booty And give to all a happier lot. Each at the xbox must do their duty And we’ll strike while the iron is hot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. I'd actually love this. Then maybe I'd listen.

I love it when I see a headline and then hear 1383x ~~youth~~ trendy people repeat the headline. Then they tell me they don't follow msm and that they cultivate their own views. ...I just say... O.K. ...because I don't care. Then they act like they had the biggest mic drop because I didn't want to hear the same dumb shit for the 5 billionth time.