I’m mainly talking about these new “but they’re different” games, that have gotten so fucking popular, lately.

“Honky Stair Rail” and “Genshin Implants” or whatever the fuck they’re called.

I don’t care if you can play them without spending any money. I don’t care if they’re any good. None of that matters. The whole model of the game being funded by whales, spending money on in-game items and currency IS LITERALLY EVIL.

There is no way to do it ethically. That is an impossibility, on a fundamental level. There is no excuse for anyone to give these so-called developers and publishers ANY amount of money, attention, or engagement.

The only acceptable way to pay for a game as a service is a traditional MMO subscription, where you pay a flat rate per month/year to access 100 percent of a game’s available gameplay.

I don’t care what your excuse is. I don’t care that you like anime tits and ass. I don’t care if you think your chosen free-to-pay game is different. It’s not.

Stop supporting this shit. Support real games.

A couple of years ago, I would have considered this to be a popular opinion, but about 35-40 percent of the internet posts I see in 2024 are related to either “Honky Stair Rail” or “Genshin Implants,” and it’s starting to freak me the fuck out.

  • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub
    6·
    2 months ago

    I’m not sure that this is an unpopular opinion either. Not in the states at least.

    All my homies hate pay to win - it’s antithetical to what gaming was about. Just the same as paid kits and scripts for hackers used to be called skids. It was about classless community on the internet period.

    Fuck greed.

    • Chill Dude 69@lemmynsfw.comOP
      310·
      2 months ago

      Like I said to someone else, this wouldn’t have been an unpopular opinion, just a couple of years ago.

      But look at the front page of Reddit, without being logged in. It’s just POST AFTER POST AFTER POST AFTER POST about “Honky Stair Rail” and “Genshit Implants.”

      Those two “games” are singlehandedly (double handedly? double-D anime-tittedly?) rehabilitating and normalizing the image of the free-to-pay genre.

      • Jaysyn@kbin.social
        7·
        2 months ago

        But look at the front page of Reddit,

        Well, there is your first mistake, thinking Reddit is organic.

        • Chill Dude 69@lemmynsfw.comOP
          22·
          2 months ago

          Hmm. I guess that’s a really fair point. I hope it’s a LOT of corporate tail-wagging-the-dog shit, then.