• Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    Well, ever since the whole thing where macrohard/mojangles/whichever decided “you know what minecraft needs? CLIENT SIDE CHAT SCANNING AND CENSORSHIP!” I decided to switch over to Minetest and have never looked back.

    I don’t mind big servers having censorship because that’s their deal and they can use whatever chat filters/plug-ins they want, but do we really need singleplayer to be censored? Or our chat messages to be scanned for things mc deem inappropriate? Absolutely not!

  • AsudoxM
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    23 days ago

    Any dev’s online game that does not want to support Linux in their AC for whatever reason, even if it is a matter of just flipping a goddam switch.

  • DarkThoughts
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    676 days ago
    • Anything from EA.
    • Anything from Ubisoft
    • Anything Epic exclusive.
    • Anything with Denuvo (or whatever is the next intrusive DRM).
    • Anything competitive PvP multiplayer.
    • Anything “free” to play.
    • Probably almost all general multipler & live service by now - or otherwise full of dark patterns to keep me “engaged”.
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      86 days ago

      I don’t find myself “engaged,” I find myself wanting to spend money for something that will bore me the next week.

      There is a reason I’ve mostly played single player games for the past decade.

      I was tired of the “seasons” and micro transactions when I just wanted a story. If the story was good, I’d be ok with purchasing an expansion upon it. I remember my first expansion pack, Warcraft 2, played over a phone line. It felt worth it.

      For more modern games, The Witcher 3 DLC felt like proper expansion packs. I have no bad feelings about those.

      But just adding a few cosmetic items? Fuck off.

      • @[email protected]
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        196 days ago

        I’ll assume since I am someone else, but kernel level anti-cheat is basically Spyware, or at least a privacy concern.

          • @[email protected]
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            56 days ago

            “kernel level” means the deepest level of the computer. It’s like giving a houseguest a key to the safe in your bedroom.

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              People really don’t understand just how invasive this is. At that point, if it was programmed to, it could pretend to obey your uninstall directive, while actually overriding your attempts to uninstall the game.

      • AmbiguousProps
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        76 days ago

        Yep, the other two commenters summed it up well: I’d rather not have software for a game that I play running and phoning home every time I boot my computer (in other words, a rootkit). I also am a Linux user, so they just don’t work for me.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 days ago

        Could also be that they are playing on Linux. Kernel level anti-cheat doesn’t work there.

    • @[email protected]
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      126 days ago

      There are so many interesting games I see that require internet multiplayer and voice chat. I would love to play them with friends but do not want to interact with random people in a game.

      • @[email protected]
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        35 days ago

        Squad has this problem for the first 5 mins in the pregame bit before you can leave the base.

        Most of the interactions I’ve had after that period have been pretty positive

      • @[email protected]
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        16 days ago

        xbox has shadowbanned me or something so that my game chat doesn’t work. I can hear others but they can’t hear me.

        I know it’s not a microphone issue because people can hear me in party chat.

        This sucks

    • @[email protected]
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      66 days ago

      Remember when all three of these companies used to be great 20 years ago? Such a shame how far they’ve fallen.

      I’m playing Beyond Good & Evil on GameCube for the first time, and this game is an absolute gem. Makes me miss how great Ubisoft used to be. They started turning into hostile trash somewhere around ten years ago.

      • SSTF
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        45 days ago

        Microsoft was always cold blooded, you probably just weren’t aware of it. Microsoft lost an anti-trust case and was almost broken up in 1998 for its practices, but appealed and came to an agreement with the government.

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    EA and Ubisoft, some kernel level anti cheat, and typically speaking, i dont enjoy games that have tower defense mechanics (and i hate when its shoehorned in, e.g Monster Hunter Rise). Korean MMOs. Mobas in general

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    Anything with a subscription is a no for me. I think subscription games are less popular than they used to be, but I never played WoW because paying every month seemed excessive to me.

    Most shooters. Especially like CoD. Not interested. I enjoy the original doom, but that’s cartoony violence fighting demons. Some of the far cry games I’ve enjoyed, with some reservations.

    Almost all free to play games. They don’t feel like an honest deal most of the time. Like, Warframe was good somehow. But a lot of them feel predatory or annoying.

    Purely pvp games. No mobas or battle royales for me. I don’t want to deal with other people like that. A little pvp in a game, like dark souls, is fine. But I’m not looking for that to he the main thing, typically.