Black and white TV was fine 60 years ago and it’s fine now

Eh, not really. They aren’t called star wars 1, star wars 2, star wars 3, etc.

They all have individual names and they are just ordered 1-9 without it being in the title.

Witcher has the number in the actual title (at least the second and third do)

So instead of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and then releasing The Witcher 4: ???, I just think it may be more logical to release it as The Witcher ??? 1: ??? or something, just so that it is obvious it’s a separate trilogy and storyline.

If its a new trilogy should they be referring to it as witcher 4?

Wouldn’t it make more sense to call it something like Witcher: ??? 1,2, and 3

And then PlayStation 6 will come out in like a year or something. Why would anyone buy this when they could wait for the ps6?

Does that account for the fact that the graphics in almost all Nintendo games are dogshit?

Like even with running stupidly low resolution graphics it still won’t perform as well as a steam deck with much better graphics?

Why make a new game when you can just make a glove for fools with money?

Is there a valve index 2 on the way?

I would hate to finally get it only for the 2nd version to release a year or two after.

The thing about older games and Minecraft being addictive is that it’s sort of fine, because they don’t benefit financially from it so obviously it was unintentional and just because of the entertainment.

It becomes a problem with these new games when they are subscription based or have lots of microtransactions because the more addictive the game, the more money the company makes.

In the case of Minecraft the issues you listed are pretty much present in almost anything entertaining, video games or not, including in-person events and social functions.

As with anything moderation is key and people just need to learn not to let it control them. Some people are incapable of that though.

There are definitely certain things that game companies need to avoid doing but multiple goals, a little bit of luck, and online cooperative play is not it.

There’s a difference between addictive and entertaining.

I wouldn’t call nicotine entertaining.

Opening lootboxes you paid $5 each for is not entertaining.

You can choose to have a Lemmy account or not. You can still use Lemmy without an account.

Quest can function without accounts, but they force you to make one.

The difference is freedom of personal choice.

I mostly wish that companies were upfront about how long the service will last.

From day of release can they guarantee at least 3 years of server time? 5 years? 10? It would factor a lot into whether or not I think a game is worth the purchase. Especially if you’re buying it 4-5 years after release and it can shut down any day.

If no one bought PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo games they would eventually just make those exclusive titles into PC games. They aren’t going to toss those massive profits from IP.

It is early access, fine tuning resource usage isn’t exactly a high priority.

It definitely is annoying but I wouldn’t put it as a negative until they outright say it will never change or they go full release without changing it.

I would be fine if you could break down building materials for a 50% return on materials.

But yeah for crafting you should be able to craft almost anything from your work bench as long as the proper workstations and craftsmen are present.

Do they not give out laptops with an Ethernet port? Or is the extra 2lbs too much?

Any AAA game that doesn’t focus on micro transactions as the main goal and invests in the gameplay/writing rather than solely in fancy graphics is bound to be a success.

AAA market is volatile because people hate the standards that game companies are trying to make AAA games.

How can something exist if they haven’t made money in 20 years?

How.much debt does the company have that shareholders will be buying into.

If it didn’t cost anything they wouldn’t do it at all. You already paid for it, they have your money. They do the extra stuff to try and squeeze out more money.

If people stopped paying ridiculous prices for cosmetic shit like this maybe we could see reasonable prices like $1 recolours of things. There’s absolutely no reason changing the colour of something should cost $30 other than the fact that people fucking pay for it, and it means other more sensible dollar-conscious players get priced out of the fun little things like that.

They need to make 17,000 sales every month perpetually to cover the costs, and then those sales will cause the server costs to rise as more people start playing.

It’s a one time income to cover perpetual costs. They will probably either need to start raising prices, reduce server costs, or maybe start a subscription service eventually, or start doing micro transactions.