Meanwhile Terraria keeps getting better with every update without any additional payments or price increases
Stardew valley too.
Then there's factorio.
Then there's any super giant game.
Then there's, frankly, just indie games in general.
Fuck triple aaa
Fuck aaa aaa aaa.
+1 Stardew Valley.
The Farm Must Grow.
No Man's Sky. Game was a disaster when it came out. For most games, a bad launch would have ended the game. But with NMS, the devs kept at it and constantly added new content over many years. I believe it's still actively developed.
That's what got me to play it. I only played it maybe half a year ago. I wouldn't have bothered if not for the fact that people were mentioning how much the game had improved. I wrote the game off after the bad press when it launched, but fortunately I was wrong and they did make something good out of it.
People still on reddit.
Or Xitter
People who still watch the news
Overwatch
I mean that one kinda depends on the role you're playing. It rotates through a cycle of bullshit for each role in turn
I finally gave up last week after 1000 hours. I was a support main, but they made support so op I need 20min to find a game. Tank is literally unplayable.
I'm back to paladin like in 2019, it's bad but less frustating.
Stellaris. They got rid of tiles to improve the AI and performance, but both got worse
Ahh to play it again for the first time.
When the events were all new, I was so busy reading I didn't mind the lag, and AI behavior wasn't super obvious.
Mods are where it's at. The AI isn't competitive when you play fair (the vanilla game's idea of difficulty is just a multiplier to the crisis faction's strength). The only way for the AI to truly be challenging is for the AI to have an overwhelming resource advantage and mods do that best. I played with the Gigastructures mod and it was amazing. I was really skeptical of that mod before I tried it. I thought it'd just be power creep.
And it does have power creep. But it also introduces really well made, unique, and unbalanced challenges. Like, the blokkats are an enemy that is impossibly strong at first. First time around, they devoured half the galaxy before I could catch up to them. It was the first time in Stellaris where I was genuinely afraid I was gonna lose the game.
Similarly, other mods keep the game feeling fresh with more events and special planets and the likes.
And they keep adding more things to micromanage
Yup and each one of those causes more lag.
They need to switch to event driven pop updates or the game will never be playable
mfs need to learn some self-respect
Sunk cost fallacy is a mean bitch
My girlfriend is a mean bitch but I’ve invested too much time to leave her now.
Yeah Tarkov just keeps getting more broken every update. Why do I do this to myself? Light Keeper already told me I can't escape Tarkov. I should have listened to him.
Must be a Team Fortress 2 player...
Updates?
They used to happen.
"Meet your match" was the absolute worst update to a game I've ever seen. The outcry was so bad Valve even bothered to reply to comments on reddit and other forums for once.
Instead of rolling it back and actually talking to and listening to the community like they should have done and trying again later, they doubled down and tried to fix the multiple bugs they introduced and didn't revert any of the unpopular gameplay changes.
TF2 is still just about good enough that it's an enjoyable game, but it's dying a slow death due to all the bots, cheaters, and the absurdity that is "random crits"
I'd say Diablo 4 but I stopped playing it by the first update. 80 bucks down the drain yayyyyy
Activision across the board to be fair.
What's so bad about the update? (I never played Diablo 4)
It's just not a good game, the leveling system is stale and broken and basically p2w if you want to make a cool build without spending hours upon hours grinding. Not specific to the 1st update, tho even with customer complaints they still managed to fuck the game up worse, just a complete shit game through and through. It was unplayable before the 1st update even got there.
We've all been there. There is always that hope that "well, the next update will probably fix _____".
CS was quite shitty for quite a while before I quit. Now it looks like it's recovering, the CS2 launch went well (apart from server issues) so there's definitely a reason to have hope. At least with valve.
Titanfall 2 also recovered, but that was always a good game. I'll even say it's the best shooter ever made period.
Yeah, keep going back to the game, which was once good is such a bad behavior. Just try other games, it's the only thing which can keep you from that.
đź‘Ž Unfinished garbage. No replay value.
1,612 hours
Melee players thriving
Oh, anon plays world of warcraft, too?
Phasmophobia. Damn that lighting update.
Is the game getting worse? It's not even a PvP game.
Just stop updating it
I used to play Apex legends a lot, last I played - the queue times were much longer and the game would crash after I'm 5 minutes in. So I kinda stopped playing the game. Funnily enough I got my first ever Heirloom in the game after I stopped playing.
These days I'm playing a bit of Battlebit Remastered with some friends when I get some time.
