World of Warcraft

Love the world and history and characters. Gameplay is now pretty shit.

My main go to is city builders and I couldn’t get past like 20 hours in manor lords before giving up. I just couldn’t get into it.

I mean, when you have a few thousand two-bit internet media sites surviving off advertisement spam and hiring any freelance writer that can put together three paragraphs for $5 that’s what our media becomes.

My top 9 games sorted by playtime, with almost 1000hrs for Valheim and about 300 for dwarf fortress.

This is why I don’t share my steam tag with anyone.

I hate people being able to analyze my habits.

Yeah I can’t imagine choosing to game on a device that has no physical controls and just touchscreen which is what I imagine this device would have to be if it’s foldable.

It will probably also be over $1000 if it’s a foldable touchscreen and have shitty hardware so may as well get a steam deck if you’re intent is gaming.

If I want to game on a touchscreen I’ll do it on my phone because it’s convenient. I’m not carrying a second device around for touchscreen gaming.

Even if it were an exact clone I don’t think a single company should have a monopoly on the idea for almost 30 years. Pokemon red was released in 1996, 28 years ago. Why should they still be able to be the only company that releases pokemon-type games?

I had a phone with one on the back and currently have one with it on the screen. Personally I had absolutely no issues with its functionality in the screen and do prefer it over the back. I like that I can unlock my phone without having to pick it up off the desk or while its still in the mount on my vehicle dash.

Seems to work perfectly fine to me but maybe it’s a quality issues with the brand of phones. Mine is a OnePlus and it’s almost 4 years old now, still works fine and never had any issues.

If only they let you filter out games from being seen on your store page or showing up in recommendations using this as a criteria.

I disagree with letting whales waste their money.

Video game design has changed to specifically cater to whales and ignore regular gamers.

Ya I did go vertical in my last attempt, but I could only fit 24 smelters on the first floor and then got to tier 5 and unlocked more stuff which put me over the edge of needing more I needed to build a second factory or a new floor on top with more smelters and it just got super complicated for me, needing to send ore to two different spots and organizing the ingots going everywhere I needed. I also have a thing about organization, symmetry, and logic and I just could not find a “satisfactory” way to build it knowing once I unlocked a new tier, without knowing what I would need ahead of time, everything I built would probably need to be redone at some point again

I liked the factory stuff until it got too complicated for me lol

I’ve built and destroyed and rebuilt everything like 5 times after unlocking new things and it just got too overwhelming the last time I felt like I had to destroy my stuff.

It’s been tanking for a lot longer than that

Really? Just make the exact same game as Skyrim with better graphics and a new plot, while making it less likely to have bugs and glitches and maybe fix the largest complaints about Skyrim.

There should almost be some sort of technological transfer to nearby empires, like cultural influence. If your neighbour is at 10000 tech points or whatever while you are at 1000, you should be able to leech some tech points from your neighbour to develop faster.

Transfer rate increases with the disparity between nations and decreases with distance.

So a super advanced empire on continent A will contribute to nations on continent A and B, but those on continent A get more of a bonus than those on B.

This aligns fairly well with reality as neighbouring countries would transfer students to universities all the time, less so the further the nations are apart.

Eh, not really. They aren’t called star wars 1, star wars 2, star wars 3, etc.

They all have individual names and they are just ordered 1-9 without it being in the title.

Witcher has the number in the actual title (at least the second and third do)

So instead of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and then releasing The Witcher 4: ???, I just think it may be more logical to release it as The Witcher ??? 1: ??? or something, just so that it is obvious it’s a separate trilogy and storyline.

If its a new trilogy should they be referring to it as witcher 4?

Wouldn’t it make more sense to call it something like Witcher: ??? 1,2, and 3

And then PlayStation 6 will come out in like a year or something. Why would anyone buy this when they could wait for the ps6?

I view phoning someone like popping over to their house and knocking on the door to chat with no prior warning. No one likes that.

Does that account for the fact that the graphics in almost all Nintendo games are dogshit?

Like even with running stupidly low resolution graphics it still won’t perform as well as a steam deck with much better graphics?

Not the original you replied to. And I had a typo when trying to spell typo 😂 just adding to the conversation. Wasn’t disputing you, just meant the may have meant refresh rate instead of resolution. Easy mistake. It’s still quite disputed how well eyes can tell the difference in refresh rates.

I imagine it was a typo*, but this article in Nature reports that in specifics circumstances the median maximum that people can perceive a difference may be around 500hz, with the maximum in their test possibly being as high as 800hz.

Normally though it seems closer to 50-90hz, but I’m on the road and haven’t delved too deeply into it

Edit: Type to Typo

Why make a new game when you can just make a glove for fools with money?

Is there a valve index 2 on the way?

I would hate to finally get it only for the 2nd version to release a year or two after.

The thing about older games and Minecraft being addictive is that it’s sort of fine, because they don’t benefit financially from it so obviously it was unintentional and just because of the entertainment.

It becomes a problem with these new games when they are subscription based or have lots of microtransactions because the more addictive the game, the more money the company makes.

In the case of Minecraft the issues you listed are pretty much present in almost anything entertaining, video games or not, including in-person events and social functions.

As with anything moderation is key and people just need to learn not to let it control them. Some people are incapable of that though.

There are definitely certain things that game companies need to avoid doing but multiple goals, a little bit of luck, and online cooperative play is not it.

There’s a difference between addictive and entertaining.

I wouldn’t call nicotine entertaining.

Opening lootboxes you paid $5 each for is not entertaining.

You can choose to have a Lemmy account or not. You can still use Lemmy without an account.

Quest can function without accounts, but they force you to make one.

The difference is freedom of personal choice.

I mostly wish that companies were upfront about how long the service will last.

From day of release can they guarantee at least 3 years of server time? 5 years? 10? It would factor a lot into whether or not I think a game is worth the purchase. Especially if you’re buying it 4-5 years after release and it can shut down any day.

It should be illegal for a company to sign you up for an account on any other platform than the one you made the account for.

If I sign up for Facebook I don’t want to have an Instagram account, or vice versa.

If they want to integrate everything then put it all under one platform name. If they need to you have a “Meta” account to use Facebook and Instagram, then you at least know you can delete your meta account information and it won’t show up in two different places. One centralized place for your information.

If no one bought PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo games they would eventually just make those exclusive titles into PC games. They aren’t going to toss those massive profits from IP.

It is early access, fine tuning resource usage isn’t exactly a high priority.

It definitely is annoying but I wouldn’t put it as a negative until they outright say it will never change or they go full release without changing it.

I would be fine if you could break down building materials for a 50% return on materials.

But yeah for crafting you should be able to craft almost anything from your work bench as long as the proper workstations and craftsmen are present.

Any AAA game that doesn’t focus on micro transactions as the main goal and invests in the gameplay/writing rather than solely in fancy graphics is bound to be a success.

AAA market is volatile because people hate the standards that game companies are trying to make AAA games.

Ya. Cheaper androids come with annoying launchers, like no app drawer so all your apps are on your home screen.

If it didn’t cost anything they wouldn’t do it at all. You already paid for it, they have your money. They do the extra stuff to try and squeeze out more money.

If people stopped paying ridiculous prices for cosmetic shit like this maybe we could see reasonable prices like $1 recolours of things. There’s absolutely no reason changing the colour of something should cost $30 other than the fact that people fucking pay for it, and it means other more sensible dollar-conscious players get priced out of the fun little things like that.

They need to make 17,000 sales every month perpetually to cover the costs, and then those sales will cause the server costs to rise as more people start playing.

It’s a one time income to cover perpetual costs. They will probably either need to start raising prices, reduce server costs, or maybe start a subscription service eventually, or start doing micro transactions.

Eh I would go with Starcraft Universe or Galaxy of StarCraft.

StarCraft would be boring if it were just a single world.

Actually world of Warcraft isn’t even a single world, it’s more like worlds of Warcraft now.

Did they use the same engine as DOOM?

Well, I’m sure there are plenty out there that do want multiplayer only games.

Personally I avoid them like the plague. I would love it if Valorant, overwatch, etc came with a single player campaign that could be played offline, or an option to play against bots.

I hate people. Especially random competitive online people.