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Despite blowing up the Steam player charts, The First Descendant is having problems with reviews with them almost hitting “Mostly Negative”. (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nexon has scummy monetization? Shocked

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I feel at this point a lot of Gen Z isn't even aware of some of those companies that ruined the MMO market.

[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, exactly this. I have a 20-something friend I made through online games who was trying so hard to get me to install this, and he had never even heard of Nexon.

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

not gen-z but I've never heard of nexon before

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 6 points 4 months ago

As a gen z myself, this isn't universally true. Some of us were around when Maplestory was big and remember the shit show when they ruined it. Also rip combat arms

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The monetization is weird and not cool.

Still, it’s fairly neat and fun to play. It’s like a better Anthem without flying.

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

i tried it briefly yesterday and it was janky and took forever to load shaders with every region change

how do they monetise?

[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You have to buy new character classes with premium currency, and they're not what I would call "micro" transactions. Technically I guess you could earn them through play, but you'd have to willing to grind a lot.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Like WoW expansions?

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

thats ok. i dont need 100 characters.

let me guess, the costly ones are overpowered?

[–] Aphelion@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that seems to be what most people are saying.

I'm not touching that game personally: I read their EULA and it includes the sale of analytics data to 3rd parties.

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

i guess in order to make this kind of game you have to be a parasite at heart. the ever increasing assholery drove me away from destiny eventually haha

the community for that game was wild too, always defending yet another shameless money grab

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago

The grind isn’t all that heavy for characters, you get a second one almost immediately and can get more just by reading where their parts drop. It’s faster than Warframe even

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Almost everything?

And they do the multiple currencies thing.