Would be funny if Valve weren’t hat and case pioneers
Shhhhhh. Don’t bring your facts in here, we’ve got nostalgia to jerk.
I am uncultured. What foes this mean?
Tf2 is a first person shooter, hat simulator
war-based hat simulator
or a hat-based war simulator
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TF2, Dota 2, CS:GO are all games with in-game cosmetics making massive amounts of money.
And Valve did it first so the entire current state of gaming is literally their fault.
that’s a rather questionable take. that’s like saying if Russia drops a nuke on Ukraine it’s the US’s fault for inventing it.
Sure, but at least Dota and CsGo don’t hide any game-relevant content behind a paywall (I’ve played TF2 a bit, and having different weapons unlockable really isn’t fair).
Also, just a cool thing, you can generally sell the cosmetics from TF2 and CSGO (never played DotA, so don’t know), so If you don’t care about it, sell it on the marketplace, some enthusiast will buy it, and you get 3 bucks to spend on the next sale.
Yes, that works with Dota too.
I have spent ungodly amounts on that game to support it, and I sold some of my swag back to buy more games.
Loot boxes and cosmetic microtransactions
Literally invented the loot box and NFTs (I know not EXACTLY, Poindexter but its selling JPGs. Close enough.)
Otoh, Proton and Steam Deck. Valve is a yin yang company.
Come gather round the stump young’ns, and I’ll tell you a tale of when video games didn’t need to be connected to the Internet.
And their monetization ended completely when the cashier handed you a receipt.
God bless Larian and Baldur’s Gate 3, the lone bastion in a sea of AAA microtransactions and early access skin-stores.
But how did you get your DLC, grandpa? Or the day one patch??
Damn this brings me back to a time period when DLC was first becoming popular and replacing expansion packs as a concept but it wasn’t a given that everyone had internet access yet so you could go down to gamestop and buy your $20 horse armor DLC for Oblivion
Well, back in 19 and dickaty-2 there was whisperings of a movie tie-in. The money spent, well I won’t bore you with that, wouldn’t mean much these days. But let’s say it was epic - do people still say that? Boy, they used to.
Anyway, they rushed to production and built a million billion cartridges. Do you know what those are? These little black boxes that had the whole video game on these massive chips. Of course they were small in those days.
So they send it to market and it doesn’t work. So then nobody bought it. And did you know, they buried all those cartridges way out in the desert some where, and that’s where the aurora borealis comes from - the sky used all those chips to paint pretty pictures. And the video game industry began a bloodless vendetta that’s still around today, to make up for that blunder by making as much money as possible, even if the game’s not worth it.
This hits different after my disappointment of payday 3…
L4D2 is such a timeless classic that the only thing that its imitators could do was dilute the formula with leveling and progression nonsense
I thought this was serious at first
What are dailies? Like I know this term in a film context but what is it in gaming?
Daily goals the game gives you to achieve for extra XP. Usually something like win 3 online matches, heal 10 teammates, or capture 2 flags. Basic skinner box methods to get the player on the game every day.
From the name I assume they’re similar to the daily quests MMORPGs like wow assigned players back in the day ?
That is, tasks to accomplish once per day to get some rewards; it’s a hook to increase the chance the players come back to the game
Why what looks like a non-persistent-world online game would need it I have no idea mind you
Daily quests. Missions that you can repeat every day for some recompense. Maybe they are always the same, maybe you get a different selection from the pool each day.
It’s MMO/Phone Game design that has bleed into every other games as a service to ensure engagement.
I loved vermintide, but this was the issue with it. Hard to convince people to play when they have to grind for hours to have their character be competent even if the player is super experienced. L4D2 for sure the GOAT
Worst part about L4D2 is that I never want to stop playing it, but all my friends move on fast.
Please be a 4chan troll. You bloody Zoomer.
