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• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ehh… for as great as Steam and Gaben are, TF2 really seems to have been the catalyst for all the ridiculous lootbox microtransaction mess we have nowadays.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That shit was coming with or without TF2, even if it was the first (which I don’t know if that’s the case). WoW gold farmers proved the concept that people are willing to pay for advantages or conveniences in games (and that was just the first game I played where I saw that, I bet it wasn’t the first), and buying packages with random content was done by MTG and baseball cards before that. It was inevitable that someone would put the two together.

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• Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Points at CS2

  That thing… That wretched thing…

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  • TheHolyChecksum@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    CS2 is great tho

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    • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s a downgrade to CS:GO in every way, and didn’t address the one problem the community has been complaining about for a decade – cheaters.

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• natsume_shokogami@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  cough CS2 cough

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• Syrc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Valve releases nothing but polished games without anything predatory.

  Counterpoint: Artifact.

  (I mostly agree on everything else though)

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  • Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I honestly forgot about Artifact entirely.

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    • Syrc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think Valve would appreciate if everyone forgot about Artifact as well

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