Light_Error t1_j0v5fng wrote on December 19, 2022 at 5:35 PM

Reply to comment by nostalgic_dragon in Epic Games to Pay $520 Million Over Children’s Privacy and Trickery Charges by 08830

I dunno, I have heard good things about Fortnite’s battle pass. But if it is anything like Overwatch and lootboxes, people will take what was a decent system and morph it into something terrible. I’ve heard nothing but bad about OW 2’s system. Halo: Infinite is better with no time restrictions but few desired rewards. And this is only the first go around. Hopefully I am wrong, but I have not seen it go any other way in the past decade.

Agreeable-Display-77 t1_j0xim36 wrote on December 20, 2022 at 3:34 AM

Wish all of you would stop buying the additional trash. Believe it or not. Companies used to only have map packs to make money off of. It made them step it up on making awesome game modes that people wanted to play for a long time. They needed people to buy copies, and then maps later. Sometimes they even gave map packs free to bring more people in. Madden had Squads with regular team ranked mode. Could name your squad and everything. Halo used to bring out new maps constantly. Many for free. It was awesome. Let them make their $69 or $59 and thats it. We dont want game modes that need spending money to be competitive, and we dont need skins. We need good games.

Light_Error t1_j0xm7rp wrote on December 20, 2022 at 4:04 AM

I don’t buy lootboxes or anything. My point was that something that can seem benign in one company’s hand, like Fortnite in OP’s post, can be taken to greater extremes than thought before. I saw it happen to both the app stores and games over a decade plus. There are degrees of badness that can be discussed while still agreeing they shouldn’t be there. I am with you though on the wish for games to have less ways to spend. The only stuff I ever buy is stuff that’d be equivalent to expansion packs on PC back in the day.