• onceuponaban@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    World of Tanks. Came for the fun FPS/TPS hybrid gameplay, left for Wargaming’s unforgivably greedy and short-sighted monetization practices. But not before siphoning away a lot more of my time than they deserved before I caught on.

  • WolfdadCigarette@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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    This one hits close to home. My best friend and I used to love this one game as kids but it gradually became less fun as every meta shift further pushed passive play. We discovered innovative strategy after innovative strategy and yet were losing multiple times per hour in a game with a queue time of ~15-30 minutes, which is bonkers. Anyway, I just lost the game and so have you.

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      Remember how good it was without the silver store or season passes. When the new content was a DLC that dropped once a year and you just played it. You could go for a stroll on Mars. Talk to Osiris at the lighthouse. And DLC content you paid for didn’t just get stolen. Yeah.

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      Eh path of exile is in the best state it’s been for a while. Game is really fun at the moment.

      It’s certainly had other times when it was really good and a lot of times when it was less good, but now is great.

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        Hard disagree.

        Path of Exile is a very different game today and appeals to a completely different subset of players since it started. The people that are still playing a very happy with it, but the people who started with its release/beta perceived it as decidedly “worse every patch”.

        The best it ever was was 3.0 when the story felt complete and the campaign still mattered. It’s a glorified slot machine now, and anything that encourages players to actively play the game is perceived as a barricade to more serotonin hits. Just see how the community reacted to the PoE2 footage. “Why do enemies take time to die? What do you mean I’m expected to dodge attacks?”

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        Nah. I played before DPS/speed-clear meta and all the powercreep. When you actually fought the enemies, took damage, and didn’t die to one-shots. I enjoyed that, and the game has always been downhill. After 1,400 hours of playtime, I realized I was only playing hoping for it to feel like it used to, but it never came.

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        Last time I played was right after the British update. They changed the run speed and the hit reg was really off. There were other things the community was really upset with, like the weapon choices for the British didn’t make sense apparently. Then a new update came out that was all about new game types, to include parachuting into matches, announced with a trailer that was of super low quality. When that update launched, it added crap no one cared about while failing to address other issues the community was more upset with. I was never the best player, but at least I could tell why I wasn’t hitting if I missed. After the Brits, I couldn’t hit anything. I stood 15 feet from an enemy and we emptied our mags and no one was hit, and we were stationary. Dude killed me with his shovel while I was throwing a grenade. Seemed like the player quality was starting to dip as well. Less mic use, more CO’s just yelling and not listening, more infighting between squad leads. To me, the spirit of the game had died, so I uninstalled.

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    It feels like I could point out an obvious one but the closest app I can think is social media apps like Twitter and Reddit

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        What I really want is for enough people to move to minetest that it gets the modders it really needs to be a serious competitor, but considering youtube and the fact that you can still mod older versions that would take a miracle (or Microsoft messing up in spectacular fashion)

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        Most the packs i play are 1.12 since thats the version gregtech ceu is on (not counting modern)