3w ago

Open world action RPG Where Winds Meet tops 2 million players in its first weekend, with a concurrent peak of 190,000 on Steam alone as it rakes in Very Positive reviews

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Some NPCs in the game are AI-powered chatbots that some have called "horrifying."
yeah no thanks.
now make a political game set in China during the last 100 years you cowards.
Seems to be free to play. I wonder how predatory the microtransactions are and if it has any invasive anti-cheat
- Steam reviews suggest that purchases and battle pass (yuck!) are cosmetic only. Most complaints are about how you can't change audio settings until after a 20 minute tutorial
- Micro transactions and pay to win: Not very much of but still there. (Who knows what it’ll look like down the line though)
  As for the anticheat I saw people mentioning ACE, which, from what I saw, people really didn’t want.
  
  other commenter said cosmetic only hmmm
  pay to win is 100% a pass if true tho
  
  Who cares if people want to p2win a single player game? Let them. It's pays for the rest of us so we don't have to.
Does it work on Linux?
- Yep works great.
I find that f2p games don't tend to respect the players' time as they have to sell microtransactions. Hard pass for me.
- It depends. But that number of good f2P games is small.
  I get pleasantly surprised by many f2P games that I wish would just become single player games. Wizardry Variant Daphne comes to mind. You can literally play nonstop for like 100 hours and not even realize there's a store. (Source: me)
From reviews I'm seeing that lots of content is AI/AI made and it's full of microtransactions. 100% a gatcha game.
ITT: Lots of people commenting about mt and p2win or whatever. Isn't it a single player / consensual co-op game? Who gives a shit what other people want to spend their money on? The hill people choose to die on sometimes....
- Consensual Game
  You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means...
  
  Well then, I suppose it's a good thing I never said that phrase.
  
  OP, what does consensual game mean to you?
Downloading it to my PS5 now. Can't beat free. Worst case, I just delete it.
2 top critical reviews I saw have bot spam against them, but not other comments do? I feel the fame have a bot review issue so be warned. Also reading its a massive time crunch and gacha game so pass for me.

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