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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   3051 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for August 2, 2024

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Euros of The Motte, what could be more fun than effecting real life change? You should sign this ballot initiative in the hopes that less live service games get killed by publishers that don't care once they drop support. (And get all your friends, family, and acquaintances to sign it too.)

If that's not fun enough, I guess this can be a thread where you can list your favorite MMOs or other live service games. I know @self_made_human likes Tarkov, very rational because it might be the best and most unique of its kind. Once there was a game called Fallen Earth that was pretty cool, but I think it died ages ago. I also used to play Lord of the Rings Online a lot, but I'd rather drive around the map in a car than actually play the game. There should be another initiative to just release the maps so that someone can port them to Unity or something and do whatever the hell they want with them.

Cries in Brexit

Now Tarkov, that's a game I can both recommend and also strongly advise people stay clear of. It's such a mixed bag, the highs are incredible, but damn, the devs can stoop low. Talking abandoning the megatransaction P2W "all future DLCs included" $150 version (that I own) in favor of a new $250 version that pinkie promises to provide all the DLC this time, while being so P2W it goes from annoying to farcical. Sadly none of the alternatives are quite as hard core, though I'm still harboring hopes in Gray Zone Warfare and Arena Breakout.

Someone, somewhere, will make a solid gritty extraction shooter, who knows, it might be the next Arma mod. And my sleep cycle is going to suffer for it.

Besides, the Tarkov devs are assholes who do their best to do fraudulent takedowns of content featuring an entirely legal mod for their game that lets you enjoy it in singleplayer, to piss on the digital preservation parade.

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