sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoEpic CEO Tim Sweeney says new multiplayer games are failing because players have no reason to leave their friend groups, touts Unreal Engine 6’s cross-game features as a solutionautomaton-media.comexternal-linkmessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1120arrow-down18
arrow-up1112arrow-down1external-linkEpic CEO Tim Sweeney says new multiplayer games are failing because players have no reason to leave their friend groups, touts Unreal Engine 6’s cross-game features as a solutionautomaton-media.comsanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square64fedilink
minus-squareCroquette@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·1 month agoBecause almost every game has timegated content nowadays so that studios can try to milk their playerbase more. So now, multiplayer games feel like a chore if you want to access the cool event.
minus-squareQueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoThat’s exactly why I stopped playing Fortnite, it started feeling more like a chore than a game. I didn’t feel like I was rewarded for participating, but being punished for not participating. Timegated content is the worst, it just creates FOMO
minus-squareDr. Moose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-230 days agoMany games feel like gacha now for real. Curse that genre for bringing this plague upon us.
minus-squareCroquette@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·30 days agoMy guilty pleasure was playing Fallout 76, but the seasons and predatory monetizing put me off.
Because almost every game has timegated content nowadays so that studios can try to milk their playerbase more.
So now, multiplayer games feel like a chore if you want to access the cool event.
That’s exactly why I stopped playing Fortnite, it started feeling more like a chore than a game. I didn’t feel like I was rewarded for participating, but being punished for not participating.
Timegated content is the worst, it just creates FOMO
Many games feel like gacha now for real. Curse that genre for bringing this plague upon us.
My guilty pleasure was playing Fallout 76, but the seasons and predatory monetizing put me off.