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gamers will use what little voice they have to place the spotlight on a shit game and giving it an award, getting people to buy that game. Holy shit this is stupid
I'd rather see "gamers" vote for actual good and fitting games for these awards, starving shit games from any attention and money.
Red Dead is a work of art. It's just shameful that Rockstar has neglected it.
Starfield is such a piece of shit, it actually gets me upset thinking about how bad of an experience it was. I finished it just so I would know how it turns over and I'm still angry about it. Thankfully I waited until it was less than $50
Red dead got labour of love for how shitty the dev situation was when working on the game tho.
If Labor of Love had to go to a huge project, it should have gone to CyberPunk 2077. The devs had it at least as bad, if not worse, and oh they actually massively significantly improved the game.
RDR2 has uh... do they even still add new clothes?
It doesn't need to go to a huge project, it needs to go to a project that was supported for a long time by dedicated devs who like working on the game and put in their all into it etc. Red dead was literally all crunch, devs hated working on it, and it stopped immediately after release.
Still laughing at anyone who watched Fallout 76 happen then willingly purchased a Bethesda game before two weeks after release to allow for some actual reviews to happen and the hype train to lessen.
I mean, I never expect a Bethesda game to come without game breaking caveats on release.
They just used to be worth it anyways.
If I paid for starfield I would have felt annoyed about it. Played it on game pass so probably spent half price or less on the subscription time. It was fine, but not full price fine.
Shit I played star field on game pass, which I get for free, and I'm still annoyed at how bad that game was. Didn't even finish it
yeah i was mostly just thinking how stupid it is to vote for starfield as "most innovative gameplay"
Yeah I hear that. At one point I was thinking why didn't they turn the ai generator on the random shit instead of the world. Like there's all these worlds and only one package type for everything? The immersion could have been amazing if there was 50 different packages of Chunks or whatever.
I fully believe that particular occurrence was just people blindly voting for the games they recognized. Tbh, I'd be more disappointed if it was a coordinated effort. Highlighting a smaller game that is is great would be exponentially more effective and beneficial than using the awards to complain about a game you don't enjoy playing. The studios aren't going to notice, and neither will most people (like me), so it's really just wasted effort.
Tbh, I did blindly vote for games I recognized or looked good in the screenshots/videos.
It was you!
Just so you know, supposedly you don't have to vote at all to get the rewards anymore.
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i was around during the first lvl 200, fully support the player's decision. ppl asking "why play then?" have never been in an abusive relationship. it's a great game tbh, just filled with mtx & grinding to the brim. ima check out his latest vids @tniru to see his side of the story
Exactly. It is a really great game and the grinding can be very fun with the character skill explosions wiping out entire screens worth of mobs.
When the game released, the only micro transactions were clothing for your character and a pet that could pick up items automatically. Its really sad they didn't just keep it that way.
A few months ago they got in deep shit because the gacha part apparently sometimes didn't contain the low chance stuff at all. So you could pay a million dollars and you would never get it.
Another amazing game ruined by greed 💔
check out his latest vids @tniru to see his side of the story
Here's his youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU0jd4xbundnzQcTlBbzETg.
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I think I played maple story in like 2007 and it was garbage then. My excuse at the time was I was broke, and there weren't many good free games out. Path of Exile wasn't until 2013. Same with Warframe. Huh I never realized those came out the same year.
I didn’t realize 2007 was after the pinnacle of F2P gaming
Between demos that could be full games, flash games, open source, and Byond f2p used to be so huge
MapleStory's problems aren't just the predatory MTX shit, which got so bad that they actually released a Reboot server that disabled a lot of this stuff, but just overall content bloat.
On top of the 5 core explorer classes (Magician, Thief, Warrior, Bowman and Pirate), there are Cygnus Knights versions of these classes, and 29 overpowered hero classes that are mostly based on the 5 aforementioned class groups
Big Bang streamlined the game excessively and ruined the overall flow of Victoria Island, making it vastly more linear. It also made Ossyria much higher levelled. Whereas for example you could probably survive in Aqua Road as a level 35, it now has a level 80 requirement. One of my characters is stuck near Ariant because they changed the second zone to be a 120 zone.
So should I play MapleStory or naw
do you have 10000 hours to spare?
Not unless you can afford to spend $3k/month on a glorified gacha game.
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