cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7643915
As always in capitalism, video games have largely deformed from an art form into just another means to generate profit for large corporations
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Everything is inherently political when you really boil it down.
Unfortunately it’s not really a step by step guide
Step 1: Don’t purchase or play games with micro-transactions
Alright coo- ah fuck they just updated it and now it has micro transactions.
Step 2: Don’t purchase micro-transactions (see step 1)
I was gonna come in with the obvious “see step 1” joke. But what if they added it to a game you paid for? That’d be some bullshit.
That was the meaning I was going for. It has happened.
Whoa whoa whoa, are you posting a meme that’s tangentially political to the Marxist Leninist meme community?
I’m a capitalist shill and this offends me because it challenges my worldview and I don’t like that.
Clearly this should go on some other community with no subscribers. That way your message is neatly filed away somewhere nobody else will see it, especially me. I’m just in favor of proper sorting, that’s all! /s
This is outrageous.
It’s not like there’s a perfectly functional meme community at Lemmy.world that is suitable for properly sucking off the “job creators”
Where I would love to see micro-transactions be a thing is news articles, videos, and other creative works. I’m happy to pay for someone’s work, especially if I’m not paying a bunch of overhead to some shitting credit card company. At the same time, I have no wish to pay for a $20 monthly subscription for the local newspaper in Middleofnowhere, Montana just so I can read one article.
I think a lot of Eastern European socialist states had ton of bribes (or sometimes “gifts”) to get anything done, including in some places “gifts” to your doctor.
Unfortunately Marx didn’t eliminate all the micro transactions
Is it like that in Cuba?
I don’t know what’s their situation with corruption/bribery.
Are you asking rhetorically meaning they don’t or seriously asking? Because if you are asking I could try to look it up but don’t know offhand.
I don’t tend to trust anything I hear about Cuba tbh, one way or the other.
End the embargo and let’s see how things stack up.
We don’t have an embargo afaik
Of Cuba?
They are famously embargoed by America, except for food and medicine. Which is a pretty big deal, considering how important the US market is for any state in the American continents.
I’m not from America
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What about it?
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It’s great! But seriously, meant to reply to another comment…
I really tried to like it for years. Bought it on suggestion from a friend. Couldn’t enjoy a game that has a timer constantly dictating what I do and how I do it, had the same problem with Bully. Great game, if I was given free reign of my own actions instead of a time-limited version.
Also, I’m getting a bit tired of pixel graphics, been looking at them for the better part of 30 years. Time to move on.
If you bought it on PC, you can mod it to change the length of day settings. Made cave exploring much more enjoyable for me.
Can I mod better graphics in?
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The thing is: If everyone hated it, it would not work. But sadly it DOES work.
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Lootboxes are legalized gambling for minors. So yeah, no shit it works. Just because a thing is profitable doesn’t make it good. The opioid epidemic proved very profitable, but just like gambling for kids, doesn’t make it a thing we should accept or want for our society.
I did not say or try to imply that it’s good. I said sadly it works. With emphasis on SADLY.
Fair enough, I’m certainly not about to disagree on the profitability of gambling (for the house specifically).
Everyone gets a lootbox.
The lootbox contains one poor quality item.
You get it two years after launch.
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