IMO people act like it’s training wheels so they can get better, but it’s more like turning the game to easy and not having to face any challenging hurdles. When people go into a game on easier difficulties and then try to play it on a higher difficulty, they actually generally have a harder time than if they just played the game on the harder difficulty to begin with (with some exceptions). Players should be getting better by experience not algorithmically making them feel better by pitting them against other poor players. It worked just fine for a long time before the invention of SBMM, and servers used to do a lot of the filtering for us before that stopped being common (for absolutely no good reasons).
A bunch of people around me played Monopoly Go for like a month and then stopped. Everything I heard about it sounded like it was terrible and full of microtransactions. Never heard of Stumble Guys, but obviously from the name it’s just a ripoff of Fall Guys. Niantic has never made a good game, but they sure have made a fortune from microtransaction stores masquerading as games while collecting everyone’s location and other data.
Really? Fair enough, I don’t recall there being any options to romance anyone when I played, but I must have just missed it. I remember the forced gay scene, which, like, fine, but I’m not gay, so it would have been cool to get at least one chance with a girl, lol, but it never seemed to come up no matter what I did with female companions in tow.
Capitalism is evil and only makes the world worse for everyone in it.
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