• neo@lemy.lol
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    5 months ago

    Wait, you play games to have fun and not as a duty? What about “pride and accomplishment”? ;)

    The moment I embraced easy mode was when Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was like: “Is the gameplay we designed for our single player game too tedious? Then buy some legendary items with IRL money or maybe our XP cheat!”

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      5 months ago

      I hate that games started designing around microtransactions. Like who thought “hey let’s take the worst parts of MMOs and put them into single player”. I loved AC origins and was so looking forward to odyssey and then I just bounced off it within a few hours because so much of it just felt like doing chores.

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        5 months ago

        Everyone who looked at how much money WoW was pulling in without having to churn out game after game and figured out why

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        5 months ago

        Extra bonus: Odyssey was supposed to feature a female lead, rather than the choice, but a misogynistic Ubisoft exec vetoed it, which I can only assume was reason for the absolutely garbage dialog.