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[-] Veraxus@lemmy.world 71 points 5 months ago

We (PC gamers) have a wide swath of hardware and input preferences that consoles do not even make an ATTEMPT to accommodate. Then there’s the predatory “pay us a subscription to play online” thing, too.

Most PC gamers will just completely skip consoles rather than play games like that. Our patience is eternal and without end.

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago

I think that's accurate for a subset of PC gamers but there's no shortage of people pre-ordering trash games or encouraging other shitty behavior like microtransactions on PC. Many of those problems could be solved with a patience that doesn't currently exist in sufficient quantities to discourage publishers from bad practices.

[-] limeaide@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago

This is just my theory, but with the price of game development increasing so rapidly, I think it's getting harder for the impatient to cover the development costs and make a profit off shitty games, unless the game has a huge following. Games like COD, Diablo, Star Wars, etc.

For games without that following, I think they are definitely being punished for their bad practices. Like Gotham Knights, Red Fall, Saints Row, etc. Games that cost so much that they have potential to shut down studios

[-] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago

Don't forget things like locking everyone into their ecosystem. Case in point, Minecraft. On the pc using Bedrock I can connect to any server. Xbox and Nintendo versions I know for a fact you can only connect to approved servers. Not sure about the PS version, but I would venture it's similar. So why would I want to limit myself by playing their locked down copy of the exact same game?

[-] ech@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago

Seriously. I was thrilled to see Sony start porting over interesting looking games, but if they go back to their previous release standard, I'm fine going back to my previous "not playing ps exclusives" standards. I've got plenty of other games to get to. No need to go out of my way to get over the hurdles they put up.

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

yup especially the pc gamer, especially with the presence of lots of banger indies, is spoiled for choice, that exclusivity is less of something enticing. And selling on FOMO don't work as well when there's also tons of f2p games competing on such feelings.

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