Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames

ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s like giving a drug dealer praise for not selling the harder drugs.

  Valve doesn’t deserve praise for being slightly less shitty when they’re doing one the shittiest things in gaming.

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No it’s like praising a dealer that will buy back some drugs as well as sell them.

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    • Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you want to get specific it’s not praising the dealer for buying back the drugs. It’s praising the drug dealer for allowing the customers to sell those drugs to others while taking a small cut from every sale. But they still shouldn’t get any praise because they shouldn’t be doing that in the first place.

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• KokoSabreScruffy@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And casinos deserve a praise because you can win back some of the money you wasted.

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The casino is honest about what they do compared to say Genshin Impact.

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    • KokoSabreScruffy@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Genshin shows odds, Valve shows nothing.

      Genshin directly shows you the stuff, Valve has a slot machine like animation.

      I have students who play both Genshin and CS2 and spending money them. In Genshin they spend to get a character they want, in cs2 is to try to make money…

      And casinos can hardly be honest given the couple of time I read about cases in which a customer wins at slot machine and casino claims it was faulty.

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      • Cybersteel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wel atleast the casinos are established entities with decades of precedence while the other is weeb shit.

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