Competitive multiplayer games are lazy because they rely on other players to be the content. And they are perpetually vexed when their customer/ labor don’t perform their intended function.
I think that’s a rather shallow way of looking at. Would you describe something like chess as ‘lazy’ then?
A good competitive game has to put a lot of thought and care into its design to make it so that two players trying to make each other miserable actually ends up coming out the other end as a fun experience.
This is why I’ve always hated having to do pvp in a pve game for whatever reason (not often these days but mmos still sometimes) I’m bad at pvp and hate being content for other better players! I want to play a game, not be farmed for kills! Guh.
Ya I hate having to go in the wilderness in OSRS. Just feels like weird creepy predatory behavior that I don’t enjoy in a game I’m paying $18CAD/month to play 🙄
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Competitive multiplayer games are lazy because they rely on other players to be the content. And they are perpetually vexed when their customer/ labor don’t perform their intended function.
I think that’s a rather shallow way of looking at. Would you describe something like chess as ‘lazy’ then?
A good competitive game has to put a lot of thought and care into its design to make it so that two players trying to make each other miserable actually ends up coming out the other end as a fun experience.
Chess is lazy. When you could play a real game like go.
But would @[email protected]’s statement also apply to go?
Go game devs were super lazy, couldn’t even design interesting shapes for the pieces.
It’s all recolored asset flips.
This is why I’ve always hated having to do pvp in a pve game for whatever reason (not often these days but mmos still sometimes) I’m bad at pvp and hate being content for other better players! I want to play a game, not be farmed for kills! Guh.
Ya I hate having to go in the wilderness in OSRS. Just feels like weird creepy predatory behavior that I don’t enjoy in a game I’m paying $18CAD/month to play 🙄