The premise of Live Service has always been great, game's you like just keep getting improved, updated, and added upon. However the resulting monetization, e...

I found a lot of things in this review pretty spot on, and am curious if others feel the same. I do still regularly play one MMO which I love (GW2), but dumped all the others I used to play since I got fed up with their obvious shift to practices he discusses here. While Anet may be guilty of employing some, they are not imho deliberately destroying the play experience just to sell you a workaround since in game achievement tracks are still the primary focus.

  • @skele_tron@feddit.de
    5•9 months ago

    Thanks for a thorough sourvey so i dont have to watch the whole video.

    Last paragraph is everything i would say too, just i take it a step up - if a game requires an additional accout - im not bying ( unless i get scammed into it, like not reading before getting doom eternal that aside from game store where i bought, i had to have a bethesda account too )

    • ampersandrew
      1•9 months ago

      Are you sure? I didn’t play Doom Eternal, but the Bethesda account for Hi-Fi Rush could be easily ignored.

      • @skele_tron@feddit.de
        1•9 months ago

        I got it on ps5, was greeted with a log in with your beth acc to start. Someone said play in offline mode and they could be right, i said then im going to look way better before i buy.