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Bandwagon said:

Dragon Age 4 creative director leaves BioWare

According to BioWare, the game is still in “excellent hands.”

www.theverge.com

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"Excellent hands"

Uh huh, sure Jane, suuuure

oh no!

Not the creative director for Anthem !

Hateyou said:

I do not understand how people do not realize there is massive hatred for NFTs. I know corporate types are out of touch and tone deaf but it’s a cacophony of hatred anytime NFTs are mentioned anywhere. They have to see this shit right?

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everyone says they hate microtransactions but in 2021 it pulled in like $5 billion between COD, fortnite, genshin impact, Ubisoft games, GTA 5 Online, etc. orders of magnitude more than every other kind of game.

the only real hope I have is that eventually things go on tilt, if everything is battlepass'd and microtransaction and GAASed out the ass then there will (hopefully) be a huge demand for simple, short, single player games. It happened a few years ago with all the loot box shit but we're back on the train again. The only game I really liked in 2021 was Guardians of the Galaxy, a real throwback to the kind of game hardly anyone makes anymore.

There is just a silent majority of dead-in-the-head drones that will go along with whatever these companies put out there.

I'm real-life friends with a bunch of guys that ACTUALLY LIKE loot boxes, wheels spins, and cosmetics. It baffles and frustrates me, but they gobble that shit up all day. They are all middle aged, full time job, type of guys without a lot of other life-obligations. They generally play in 1 or 2 franchises a year (Call of Duty, etc) and always look forward to buying the next version when it comes out. They dump hundreds into microtransactions, knowing that it will all go away with the next yearly version of the game and they don't care. They pre-order digital copies of games, they sign up for the season passes, and they splurge on the higher end cosmetics. "A new $30 cosmetic suit in a game that costs $60? Sure, sign me up!" But the insane thing is that this flippant, "here's my wallet!" mentality in a digital game does not cross over into real life at all. These cheap fucks are frugal as shit when it comes to the real world.

While they are "Gamers", they are mostly ignorant to the industry as a whole. They don't listen to podcasts or frequent gaming websites. They just stay in their own little universe created by the franchises they play. So when I try to explain how microtransactions, loot boxes, and cosmetics are ruining the industry, they look at me like, "get a life dude".

So will NFT's work? I don't see any reason why they wouldn't. You already have these Tards conditioned to getting out their wallets and paying you for dumb shit. NFT's potentially have the resale value thing going for them, which will seem like an even better value proposition to most. This is the world we live in now and it fucking sucks.

I bought a lot of cosmetics for one game (Marvel Heroes) and do not regret it even slightly, but it's the only game I've ever bought cosmetics for and it will remain the only one.