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Can someone explain to me why Honkai: Star Rail is treated as something other than trash? I keep seeing posts about it, all over. (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com to c/games@lemmy.world

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It's a free-to-play mobile gacha game. Therefore, it is trash. That point simply cannot be argued. It's not up for debate. If you're here to debate that point, please don't even bother. All mobile games are trash. All free-to-play games are trash. All gacha games are trash. Again: there is no debate about that.

Having gotten that out of the way: why are so many people under the false impression that this SPECIFIC trash game is somehow more than trash?

Does it have particularly sexy anime girls? Particularly sexy anime prettyboys? Cool mechs or something? Does it very sadly contain core elements of gameplay that would be fun in a non-trash setting?

Help me out, here.

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[-] Norgur@kbin.social 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Dude, I dislike games that prey on addictive behavior as much as.the next guy, but holy cow are you a toxic piece of work. You waffle on about how we all left Reddit for some ulterior motives and whatnot. Most people left Reddit because it has become the very headbutting contest you try to pull off here.

If you cannot understand why this game has appeal (and that's a sentiment many of us would share I think), don't fucking play it. But don't walz around constructing some weird superiority story out of that. That's just immature and petty.

Oh, and don't assume that every Lemmy user has the same reason for being here than you or shares your values.

Huh, I'm starting to guess we're dealing with a teenager here.