I prefer the way world of warcraft did it.
I had an original amani war bear mount which was exclusively available between patches 2.3 and 3.0 if you completed a very hard timed dungeon available once per 3 days (1 mount per completed run and there were ten people per run, so also limited by that). Some years later after people complained about not being able to get it anymore blizzard added the amani battle bear mount which is visually the same but a recolor. That way you still get the cool mount but the og earners still feel special.
If the fact that you happened to play a game before other people is something you’re actively and intensely proud of, you’re a fucking loser.
Well I think in some cases, people are proud to be early adopters of things.
They like to show that they supported something when it potentially needed the most support and they put faith in a project before it had a large scale foothold.
I’m not saying that’s the case here, but I don’t think calling someone a fucking loser for being proud of supporting the things they like is really fair.
I have to laugh at “symbol of their early commitment and grind” too, as if it’s some great achievement to have wasted time on something when it was bad. Final Fantasy XIV has a similar system where characters created before the 2.0 reboot of the game get a cool neck tattoo.
I almost think it’s better for the veterans when their exclusive customization becomes generally available, to give them some plausible deniability about how they once chose to spend their time.
People shit their pants over the White Raven earrings (for those unfamiliar they were a rare drop behind HARD 1.0 content that few bothered to actually get) getting released for the rising like 5 years ago. Multiple people talking about how this materially made them worse off
Meanwhile I pointed out that any veteran player had saved over $1k (even more now) with that discount on their subscription that they still get, so if some of the rest of us want access to those old items they could fuck off OR trade their discount in for that item to be exclusive. They didn’t like that
2.0 probably wouldn’t have happened if people didn’t stick around for 1.x, combined with the declining player count for FF11. The real perk for sticking out the last 3 paid months of 1.x wasn’t the legacy tattoo, it was the subscription discount.
Agreed. The subscription discount matters way more than the arbitrary neck tattoo, and I think that type of reward is totally fine. That’s not a badge of honor for “the grind”, it’s compensation for losing the product they originally paid for and incentive to stick around after. Like being grandfathered in to a contract.
Alternatively, if you respect yourself, don’t play Fortnite.
Play Deep Rock Galactic instead, where you can go back in time to replay old seasons to get all the skins and upgrades that were ever introduced to the game. All free, lots of grind but its wholesome from start to finish. Rock and Stone!
Or, play Helldivers 2 instead, where although you will constantly be bouncing between “It’s so over!” and “We are so back!” every few months, you can earn the premium currency by just playing the game. You actually make a not-half-bad amount.
And, AND. You get to act out your favorite Starship Troopers/Terminator wars fantasies (also recently added: seafood is back on the menu, boys) by being able to quite literally rain hell from above, (almost) any time you want.
I shit you not every time an Alpha Commander runs I hear “IT’S AFRAID” in my head
(disclaimer: I still like DRG, I just prefer one over the other. Don’t nobody start nothin’.)
It’s harder to get medals than credits, in my opinion. More of a grind, I mean.
Grinding credits and medals specifically really changed how it works for me. If you need medals, complete the harder missions fast and ignore the chaff, get the 10/15 medals per level.
I just ran trivial difficulty, flat bug maps looking for credits and medal drops, because you don’t even have to extract to get them. Get the 30-40 creds, then exit to ship. Skips all the cinematics, and you can jump right back in to looting in a minute.
Nice alright fair enough
We’re rich!
We’re rich!
We’re rich!
You can play the Lorax in this game?
Play doom2 instead
Play doom2 instead
To be fair, you could say that about most games.
I try
I’m starting to think that video game culture is just a complex psy-op designed to redirect the youth’s energy for protesting injustice to the most trivial shit.
“Bread and Circuses!” As yelled by my father anytime I asked him to get cable so I could watch sports.
Occam’s Razor. It’s just corporations milking us dry.
That’s not occams razor. It’s a wild conspiracy.
Occam’s Razor is that it’s just capitalism doing its thing. That was my point. The wild conspiracy is the other stuff.
No, occams razor is that the simplest answer is the most likely one. Every gaming company somehow scheming to stupify the collective youth is some nuclear-level conspiracy theory.
If the skin is like a season 1 achievement award (like top x% of players, not like “win a game”) I kinda get the frustration. But if it’s just a skin that happened to be available at launch…ehhh
Technically it’s very likely to be a 16- or maybe 32-bit integer at a very special address.
It’s literally pixels on a screen bro
Ok bro
If it was sold as a time limited thing then I get it as well
These limited things are always just time based exclusives, publishers aren’t gonna leave money on the table.
Or maybe don’t trust a games company that only focussed on revenues to the point where any grind item can just be bought so progression is not a factor in game design.
I much prefer that to the yearly release model we had before
To be an OG ForkKnife player is to be constantly under attack
I’m an OG Fortnite player (c. 2017)…
Check out my stats, lol
E: Ok it was meant to be a joke, I’ve played 3 solo games, as if it’s something to be proud of.
I wish my Save the World skins transferred over but as a Linuxer I have never played BR
There goes my hero,
He’s doing the floss dance
🫡
Perhaps it was a veiled attempt to discourage people from paying money for pixels on a screen after paying for pixels on a screen?
