Imo they shouldn't do Witcher 4, you should stop when it's best. They won't be able to meet the expectations and only disappoint when people compare it to W3.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

so what if it isn’t as good as w3? it doesn’t ruin w3.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a huge gamer anymore, at least not of newer games... aren't microtransactions a bigger problem in multiplayer games because it gives player willing to spend money an unfair advantage over skilled players?

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

not necessarily, they can be cosmetic only.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sure, not necessarily... but in practice? Again, this is not something I have personal experience, but based on what I've read about it, it generally is about giving someone an advantage, isn't it?

[–] SnugZebras@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Some of the older COD games had guns you could only get with real money, and they were overpowered. Nowadays it seems even free to play games have mostly cosmetic micro transactions.

[–] Cmor@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Praise Geraldo del Rivera! CD Projekt Red is (le)terally saving gaming.

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[+] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz -7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

I am actually ok with micro transactions in multiplayer competitive games for cosmetic skins.

I am not saying that most games that do this aren’t extremely toxic in their design but the idea of players of a popular competitive game continually paying small amounts of money to artists to create new riffs on the same player models and weapons that those players can use to express themselves is potentially a wonderful direct connection between 3D modeling artists and players that continually values those 3D modeling artists far after the initial game development is over (and a game company could potentially have no work for a 3D modeler when just maintaining a multiplayer game with small updates).

The problem is that the type of people who are most likely to spend money on loot boxes are exploited heavily, and then shamed by everyone around them into not revealing how much they spent on video game call of duty mobile skins.

None of this even remotely works when you talk about singleplayer games though, basically nobody dresses to the nines to just go for a walk in the woods where nobody can see them.. the direct link between 3D modeling artists and players expressing themselves in view of other players is gone. Players may spend hours dressing their singleplayer character and enjoy that part of the game but it just isn’t the same thing as your multiplayer competitive game character you have spent countless hours playing in multiplayer matches interacting with countless people with. It is the difference between taking a freeing walk in the woods and taking a walk in a city in view of a crowd of other artists.

I guess what I am trying to say is that micro transactions are really only okay when they are “micro” because they are a direct interaction between a player and an artist in the way buying a single song from an album might be.

Of course, my entire point is subsumed by the fact that most of the big companies probably treat the 3D modelers making their skins like trash and are probably going to replace literally all of them with AI as quietly but as quickly as possible in the next couple of months.

[–] bobotron@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Real good take, I couldn't agree more. I also sold a dota2 skin that I got randomly for a couple hundred dollars like 8 years ago and it funded my PC purchases for a couple years so I might be biased 😉

[–] SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you really believe money from microtransactions goes to the developer and not the publisher? I would sooner believe in a unicorn than that.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In my comment I attempted to point out that yes the profit from micro transactions never really goes to the artists and developers, but if it did in theory I would actually be really supportive of artist run cosmetic stores for multiplayer competitive games.

I want 3D modeling artists to be valued, and competitive multiplayer games providing a canvas in which artists can continually express themselves and create outfits/skins for players and items in game is an incredible opportunity to reaffirm the value of the labor of 3D modeling artists.

The opportunity is currently totally captured and subverted by shitty corporate control, but in theory it is still there.

For singleplayer games, no horse armor crap is lame, I just want developers working on expansion content.

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