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On the one end, you've got the F2P game that offers you a zero upfront cost to downloading and playing the first few levels, then slowly constricts the quality of the gameplay until you pay them to relieve the pressure.
On the other end, you've got the AAA game that hypes release for months and tries to get as much money out of you as physically possible at launch by flooding social media with FOMA. Then they rapidly sheds support for the product until its another forgettable crap title on the pile of forgotten sequels.
In either case, it almost feels like the goal of modern video games is to inflict anxiety and distress on their audience. Like, the point of the game industry is to make the player miserable and then accept payment to provide relief.
genosh impact is free and good throughout 😤
Working my way through a pirated copy of BG3. But I'll keep an eye on it.
does pirated BG3 get the patches and updates? They're releasing major content and bug fix patches like every couple days
No, but I'm not going to sweet it.
I’m fairly certain they’re further incentivized to put out a shit product because the incessant patches they have to quickly back to back deters pirates. Not that it’s a reason to do that, but it’s another reason to not give a shit about trying to fix the reason that cause them to put out unfinished games.
The base game on day 0 is still an extremely solid game, if you're talking about BG3
I was writing up an edit defending BG3 as an exception that proves the rule and it got deleted when the page refreshed, lol.
I had one bug on the base version, near the end, and it corrupted my save file, but I had some backups and all was good. The year of early access probably helped with bug testing.