conciselyverbose

If you don’t immediately throw someone who doesn’t flush off of your property to never return, you’re nasty too.

No smartphones in the street, or parks or shops, whatever, it’s their town.

Screw that. A town shouldn’t have the authority to take away basic freedoms like that, even if literally every citizen directly votes in favor of doing so.

They should fix these headlines:

“Helldivers 2 installs rootkit malware”

Stop soft balling it. Literally every game that goes near the kernel should get this headline spread far and wide.

If there are different classes of people based on being stupid enough to waste money, it’s by definition evil and exploitive. This model is designed for the sole purpose of breaking people’s brains to spend more than they should.

There is no valid way to distribute any cosmetic that isn’t earning it in game. The exact same game, with literally nothing changed but the addition of a purchase of a cosmetic, is worse for the mere existence of purchase bait. It’s the same thing as taking a TV show I bought and injecting ads.

“Free” content supported by these extremely invasive ads is worse than not having those updates.

They’re not subsidizing games for me. They’re taking games away by making them unconditionally unplayable. Charge a fair price. You’re worth it or you’re not. “We need to be disgusting shitbags for our game to exist” is evidence that your game shouldn’t exist, not that it’s possible for your behavior to be acceptable.

I have no issue with battle royales.

I have a huge issue with literally all microtransactions in every context. Cosmetics are not a justification. The only valid way to unlock cosmetics is to earn them with gameplay.

If you have microtransactions in any format in your game, you are a bad human being. There is no scenario where it is forgivable. If you have lootboxes, you should go to prison for the blatant unregulated gambling operation you are running.