Capitalism means that more sales are always better, even if you have to change what you’re selling. And a dedicated fan will still buy the game, even if it’s worse than it used to be, because as long as they don’t fuck it up TOO MUCH fans can take a lot of mistreatment - ThreadSky

unclimainfame.bsky.social • 48 days ago

Capitalism means that more sales are always better, even if you have to change what you’re selling. And a dedicated fan will still buy the game, even if it’s worse than it used to be, because as long as they don’t fuck it up TOO MUCH fans can take a lot of mistreatment

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unclimainfame.bsky.social•48 days ago

And companies know this, so they will push changes even if they know it’s gonna compromise the standard they held until that point, just so that they can access a new playerbase. There’s countless examples of this:

unclimainfame.bsky.social•48 days ago

Final Fantasy XIV dumbed down every mechanic in the game, made new game modes to make sure less proficient players could get to see the cutscenes and get the glamours, and overall stopped pushing for more. The game is now overrun by people that use it as second life and just go clubbing

unclimainfame.bsky.social•48 days ago

And don’t get me wrong, good for them. Erpers gotta erp. But they took the game out of the game. It made me stop caring about the game altogether. It ruined the game for me.

unclimainfame.bsky.social•48 days ago

Just as a disclaimer, I don’t play souls like cause I don’t like them, so this is not personal to me. And I’m not trying to say that games should not be inclusive, they should! Color blind modes, different fonts for dyslexic people, you name it. But that’s not changing the difficulty level

unclimainfame.bsky.social•48 days ago

It’s leveling the field. I’m also not trying to advocate for stuff like idk not changing the Witcher mc to ciri because those are ridiculous statements. The narrative should be controlled by the authors AND it’s good that we’re getting more diversification in videogames.

unclimainfame.bsky.social•48 days ago

Im also not saying that games shouldn’t have different difficult levels overall: some games are made that way and that’s ok. What im saying here is “don’t advocate to change games that other people like” because that’s an asshole move.

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