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[filipmagnuswrites]

Helldivers 2 Bucks Live Service Trends for Super Democracy! | Game Review

Super Democracy! You might call it a lie, you might call it filthy propaganda, you might suggest its striking similarity to fascism. If that’s the case, the firing line’s this way – let the bullets hit you on your way out. For all my fellow loyal citizens, I congratulate you: together ,we have done much to defeat the threats that surround our very own Super Earth. We’ve gassed bugs (without any…

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#Arrowhead Game Studios #Gaming #Helldivers #Helldivers II #live-service #live-service games #Third-person shooter #Video Games #Writing

[haleyusesherwords]

I appreciate that everyone thought Tango would take its easy this season after Decked Out. Go full grumpy old man, murdering anyone who bothered him. Yet here he is… building a redstone mail delivery service with dynamic chunk loading while still in his starter base.

Meanwhile, TCG mastermind and map connoisseur VintageBeef is *this* close murdering Iskall for touching his farmhouse walls.

#astronomically excited about the mail service oh my GOD #tango tek #VintageBeef #the sound he made when appointed the minister of maps? #let the man rest #beef is literally the townspeople in untitled goose game just trying to live their lives #and Iskall is a horrible goose #hermitcraft #hermitblr

[henrycheng]

ngl a lot of you have to unlearn some serious classist rural hatred

#by you i mean the general online “left” populace that likes to talk a big progressive game #but sees rural communities as some weird enemy breeding hotbed #while failing to see uniquely beautiful rural communities full of people who deserve access to services and the tools for fulfilling lives #and ignoring that people who are marginalized do live rurally and very often LOVE where they are #i have a whole rant brewing but ill leave it for now

[multitrackdrifting]

The pursuit of hype can bring out the worst consequences in gaming. Gamers end up with worse products, and developers are treated like machines to realise grandiose goals that might not be appropriate to their their development deadline.

Let's talk through some problems with (manufactured) hype and the problems it creates.

Chapter summary:

How Expectations Can Ruin Gaming Experiences

Hype Trains & Harassment: No Man's Sky

The Cost of Hype: Attention To Detail & Why It's Stupid

Maintaining Hype: Games As A (Live) Service

Hype Is Coming To Its Logical Conclusion

#upload tag #no mans sky #video essays #fortnite #gaming #video essay #live service games #Youtube

[bramblequeen]

This was supposed to be posted later in the year but oops wrong button…

I do want to revisit this concept as the colouring was hella rushed and I’m not quite happy with it. A first attempt if you will. Something for 2024 though

Also why is Nomura slacking with regards to my Kingdom Hearts 3v3 Blitzball Spin-off game?!???

#bramble arts #kingdom hearts #sora #kairi #riku #destiny trio #sorikai #it started off as basketball but then evolved to blitz all #still I think a blitzball game ala Mario hoops 3v3 would be hoo #there’s enough characters to develop a huge roster and tonnes of antagonists to us #to use is what I meant #plus the better you get the more stages/customisation you’d unlock #but no battle pass/live service stuff…I really don’t like it #DLC is fine but no battle pass

[tainbocuailnge]

i havent really kept up with fgo story in ages ive been playing Other Games instead (gbf and ffxiv) and with that said i think fgo should get some credit for having more than one good writer. if it's good in ffxiv it's because natsuko ishikawa was involved and when famitsu listed which gbf events were done by the same writer years ago it turned out every single good one was done by the guy who did the doss. some of their other writers can do mid to okay it's not that everyone else sucks but if it's Good its Their One Good Writer. fgo has more than one writer who can make good chapters. in fact fgo is kind of the opposite in that even their worst writer can somehow make good chapters. and their good writers can push out some real fucking stinkers too. never let them know your next move

#anyway i love cuchulainn #ive also been watching hannibal slowly which is ruining everything else for me. man cannot subsist on live service games alone.

[cluescorner]

Arlecchino's whole deal is unbelievable

Arlecchino: Huh I wonder what's causing my weird powers? I can't really worry about that right now tho, I've gotta become King and then kill my "Mother".

*Kills Clervie and "Mother"*

Arlecchino: Huh I wonder why I was able to defeat a Fatui Harbinger when I'm like 17 or so? I can't really worry about that right now tho, I've gotta be in jail and become a Harbinger.

*Is in jail for a while and becomes a Harbinger*

Arlecchino: Huh I wonder why I am-

Pierro: Hey what's up hello, anyways you're descended from the Crimson Moon Dynasty of Khaenri'ah. I'm sure that this is a lot for you to take in so-

Arlecchino: Ok.

Pierro: ...You're just cool with that?

Arlecchino: IDK maybe? I can't really worry about that at the moment, I'm a father now. This orphanage full of children I love (who also are child soldiers and are not allowed to leave or else I'll execute them except maybe now I'm just gonna wipe their memories IDK I'm morally complex) isn't gonna run itself.

*Runs the orphanage/spy recruitment initiative*

Me, the fucking player: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE KHAENRI'AN? WHY WASN'T THIS BROUGHT UP IN YOUR FUCKING QUEST?? OR ANYTHING ELSE????

Arlecchino, talking to me through my phone: I honestly don't know why you care, I'm too busy to give a shit. Anyways, I'm gonna go fight fate itself I guess. I'm sure that I don't share any thematic parallels with any other Khaenri'an characters (particularly as it relates to acting and family angst) and that I haven't made the idea of 'curses' on Khaenri'ans and what they entail even more complicated than they already were. See ya.

#arlecchino #genshin impact #pierro #WHY IS THE GAME FUCKING GLOSSING OVER THE FACT THAT SHE IS KHAENRI'AN?! #Not only that but she is the first Khaenri'an we've met (that we know of) who's from the Crimson Moon Dynasty #I'm so fucking confused #Did Celestia place a DIFFERENT curse on members of the Crimson Moon Dynasty?? Or is this stuff all of them can do??? #HELP #She also seems almost...uninterested in the fact that she's descended from Khaenri'ah. Which honestly I think is interesting. #I don't know if I like it yet but when every other Khaenri'ah character has one of their major traits being that they super fucking #care that they are Khaenri'an (whether that be Kaeya with his paranoia/destiny/duty or Dain with his guilt over his failure/desire to #prevent our sibling from fucking with anything too much or whatever the fuck is going on with Pierro) #having a character who is Khaenri'an but doesn't seem to particularly be invested in that part of themself is different #she cares more about the curse and its effects on her then she ever really cares about the Crimson Moon Dynasty or the cataclysm #IDK I think it's neat from a character writing angle. or at least it has the potential to be if the writers do a good job. #But from a 'I like maybe 3 things in this game and one of them is Khaenri'ah' perspective it SUCKSSSSS #That part of the plot is already suffering from chronic live-service storytelling disease where people just straight up don't tell you #shit that they logically SHOULD BE TELLING YOU because the game needs to save plot points to build hype around #so for one of like 4-ish (depending on how much we count Albedo) Khaenri'an major characters to give us literally 1 and 1/2 voicelines #kinda sucks ngl. but again it's also interesting and realistic for Arlecchino and from that angle I like it #she doesn't care about what fate says her place in the world is. she's gonna carve her own and being Khaenri'an isn't relevant to #the life and identity she has built for herself. she isn't the type to look for answers she doesn't need. she's practical and efficient. #at the very least it's better than when Albedo 'I want to find all the world's truths' Kreideprinz doesn't let the audience in on his stuff

[baddyzarc]

NEW ICONS AND THE BORRELOAD HUMANSONA IS DOING REVOLVER’S MIRROR FORCE POSE

THATS adorable ❤️

#vrains #arc v #Cross duel feed me #every new event makes me wish the game wasn’t a live service #I can smell it’s death

[madame-helen]

#meme #memes #shitpost #shitposting #humor #funny #lol #satire #funny memes #fact #facts #funny humor #funny meme #gaming #video games #live service games #irony #joke #parody

[queernoctis]

listen im not expecting ever crisis to be Good [or even last that long] but if i get even a Crumb of baby firsts content out of it i'll consider it a success

#sephiroth #angeal hewley #genesis rhapsodos #final fantasy 7 #final fantasy vii #I SIMPLY DO NOT TRUST SQUARE WITH LIVE SERVICE TYPE GAMES #firsts trio #young sephiroth changed my brain chemistry #art time

[spaceshiphorror]

posted on Twitter so imma just post it here for my Tumblr audience. there will also be a cut so i don't clog half your feed

my unironic conspiracy theory is that most large corporations have realized that if they just smack their customers over the head over and over again with poor quality service and products, customers will just give up, and that products are actively being made worse on purpose

example: people are praising live service video games for not screwing them as hard as pure cash grabs, when a decade ago we were all screaming at the top of our lungs at the mere concept of a live service game that we have to pay for continuously

the average consumer, myself included, is not strong enough to resist years-long campaigns of sustained, intentional disappointment. and what can we do? the consumer legitimately holds no power, and the avenues to make your voice hears have been made extremely difficult

this isn't me longing for some bygone era where capitalism was awesome. we were always headed down this road. motives in this system are always profit-based, and profit is most easily made through dishonesty

it will get worse before it gets better, but i do believe things are getting better. i see people DIYing things a lot more often and avoiding paying for their hobbies. i see a lot of piracy. these are all good. companies will have to offer a good service or collapse

example: i play Warhammer. it was decently more affordable when i got into the hobby. now, i very rarely buy anything actually from GW, because their prices are insane and their FOMO marketing pisses me off. at least half my models are third party

#consumer insights #consumerism #video games #live service #warhammer #warhammercommunity

[askagamedev]

Blizzard is perceived as always trying to release Pro-Inclusivity news to deflect from breaking Negative Press about its many lawsuits. It that an accurate perception?

No. It takes months to develop, market, and push content live. Blizzard is constantly releasing news because they run multiple live-service games that each need a steady feed of new announcements to keep the player base interested and engaged. This means that we are, at most, a few weeks away from a new announcement of any kind. The reason there's so much inclusivity content in their announcements is because many of the Blizzard developers themselves actually care a great deal about inclusivity.

The people who are most upset at Blizzard as an institution are not actually the gamers, they're the developers - the people who are participating in those lawsuits you mentioned. The gamers are mostly tangential to all this - they might get some recreational outrage out of it, but I doubt the gamers could name any of the developers or perpetrators of bad conduct in question. The pro-inclusivity content and the sentiment surrounding the lawsuits are for completely different groups of people.

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#video game marketing #live service #content updates #blizzard #diversity #inclusivity

[star-rail-updates]

btw i’m not like dead or planning on stopping the blog, i’ve just been going through a really bad illness episode this month and haven’t had the energy to even use my phone most days

feeling a bit better now so updates should resume in the near future

#mod speaks #do NOT run a blog for a live service game when you are chronically ill #oops :P

[edenbrooks]

for @ila-appreciationweek, day one:

the summer months 💛

everyone please clap for august it lives within

#playchoices #ilaw #it lives in the woods #it lives beneath #it lives within #my art #hi LOL #have yet to finish ilw but thank you for your service ilw team 🫡 #so impressed with all the love and hard work that was put into it and i always love a game made in ren'py #WAIT i had mc tags #mc: jun vance

[bargaintears]

LIVING for the fact that Dan and Phil now unashamedly post the queer couple blog content of their platform’s dreams. (maybe not like actually their dreams cause that would be weird and cringe, peace and love)

I don’t doubt if it started unsure and unsteady but it’s turned into something beautiful and obviously genuine.

#phan #dan and phil #dan and phil games #they’re just gay! #and living it! #without fear bc why would they need it in this day and age! #I don’t know if they receive much hate but I hope it all gets turned into love and service thrown their way #It gets better

[zeeph-containment-zone]

was posting in a twt thread about pjsk and diva and it kinda made me realize something,,, someone with chunithm chart experience should probably go through and convert all the charts at some point in time because the day the game gets its eos we probably are gonna lose all of them lol and also in regards to the whole "project sekai killed diva" debate, Project Diva automatically outlives pjsk because again, as soon as that eos date happens we lose most of pjsk meanwhile you can boot up project diva via console or emulator or offline arcade cabinet whenever you want to play so even if there's no more games being made, it's still alive by default.

#ngl live service games are a plague #project sekai #pjsk #vocaloid #rhythm game #project diva