What are some open world games you’ve previously enjoyed and what did you enjoy about them? Additionally what are some open world games you dropped/didn’t enioy?

That’s probably going to allow people to give you better recommendations for yay/nay.

That reminded me that at some point I ended up with a FF13 guide and, despite not living the game, really enjoying it.

I purchased an FFX guide when I was very young but unfortunately I remember it having coffee stains all throughout.

Definitely a grumpy old man but that doesn’t mean you aren’t right.

Try telling people the same thing about how corporate consolidation is bad and is going to lead to long-term anti-consumer damage and they respond the same way largely.

The good news is the Lemmy community seems, as a whole, to have its head on its shoulders better about things like this.

I assume it’s some combination of an older userbase, more tech literate, and people directly experiencing enshitification as the fundamental reason a large segment of the community migrated here.

Exactly.

The issue here, which you and I probably agree on, is you just need a license standard with an enforcement (regulation through legislation) mechanism.

Then it just comes down to “which service stack best delivers on this requirement” which likely wouldn’t be in a Blockchain implementation’s favor.

Beyond technological throughput constraints, I just genuinely don’t want the real life commodificaiton of in-game resources.

I don’t want a market existing around selling my virtual jacket in game, I don’t want loan-terms from fake in-game banks backed by a real-life commodity determining the investment in my guild, I don’t want to think about the macroeconomic impact of an expansion releasing and how that affects the value of my character.

If a crypto-game actually delivered on the above I bet it would have a playerbase (people who think Eve is too casual), but they’re overwhelmingly crowd-funding/vc-funding cash grabs whose cypto-technological utility is usually less functional than that of the steam marketplace.

I recognize I’m someone who will never want to play a game that couples its virtual economy to the real-economy (and I think the overwhelming majority of players feel the same way).

In no particular order:

Monster Hunter Freedom Unite

Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (English patch)

Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinite (English Patch)

Lord of Apocalypse (English patch)

Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker

Metal Gear Portable Ops+

Locoroco 1/2

Patapon 1/2

Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions

Motorstorm Arctic Edge