many of the most interesting games started as free mods or student projects
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
It's pay to win, where if you pay enough, the devs will add customized cheats that only work for you.
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
I haven't been here long but I imagine c/outside exists?
if it doesn't, make it
c/outside
Outdoors / Nature / Green Things
huh?
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.
Affordable surgery is exclusive to the European servers, it seems.
!outside@lemmy.world exists :) Not too active, but we can change that.
They probably spend too much time outside to bother with it ;)
True lol. Probably distracted with all the grindy sidequests.
It's 90% grinding and 10% actual gameplay
How could the creator of the image miss the opportunity for it to say "we live in a society"
Or Skill Issue
Good point. That's probably the libertarian gamer's answer to all of it 🤦
Why is the richkid class locked for me?
Your parents need to buy the DLC first!
Fuck!
Nah the poor kid class builds the story better
Skin color is still a difficulty selector.
Spawn points are busted and too heavy RNG
This thread got me thinking, do we have a replacement for r/outside on Lemmy? That sub was pretty entertaining at times
If someone finds one please tell me
Capitalism is very unpoggers.
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.
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...
What exactly are you looking for then? Sounds like normal points to me.
Promises of infinite exponential capital growth => Feature creep
"This game needs to be more consumer friendly." 
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.
Ah fuck you all, I will just spin up my own server for me and my friends.
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.
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. And then 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.