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Gaming has been following the shitty trends of video streaming companies for a while now. I bought RDR2 on the Steam sale to finally play through and immediately refunded it when I saw they force you to sign in with a Rockstar account. I don’t want any offline games where I have to sign in.

I remember putting a cartridge into a console and powering on to an immediate start screen. There shouldn’t be EULA or T&C prompts or inescapable splash screens on timers for any of these games. There shouldn’t be standalone studio launcher applicationa that take up nearly a GiB of hard drive. Nobody wants them, nobody is impressed by them, and it takes away from the fun. It seems I’m done with all Blizzard, Origin, and Rockstar games for good now, where in the past I would’ve gladly shelled out $$$ for deluxe and ultimate editions like a chump.

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space@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Guess who doesn’t have to login to a Rockstar account? That’s right, pirates.

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- Stuka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Pirating games isn’t nearly as attractive as other media. Big studio Games are usually released in a broken state and pirate sources rarely keep titles updated.
  
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  - yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Mostly a paradox issue, and they already admitted it’s intentional:
    
    “What we want to do is provide people who bought the game legally a better service. With frequent updates; good and convenient services; that’s how we fight piracy,” he said. “I hope it works. I keep my fingers crossed.”
    
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  - ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    This happens mostly with less popular games. Stuff like GTA, Call of Duty, RDR, Starfield, etc, stays up to date in pirate sites.
    
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CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The forced rockstar account is 100% of the reason I refunded GTAV without ever playing it, and it’s the reason I wont ever get RDR2.

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- Damdy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Rdr2 sucks anyway, it’s the Avatar of videogames.
  
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  - governorkeagan@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    What sucks about the game? Having to use the Rockstar launcher is a pain but imo the game is brilliant.
    
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    Damdy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The whole game is a confusing mess.
    
    Fundamentally, the game acts like it’s a huge open world game where you live a cowboy, but in reality the whole thing funnels you into a boring and annoying story.
    
    Hours of tutorials on all the things you can do in the game, but while you’re playing you can’t be bothered to sit through the same skinning, cooking, hunting, tracking crap over and over when baked beans do the job better.
    
    This pretty much sums the whole game up, you have so much money from the first storyline bank job, you never need to do a single side quest and all the features are repetitive busy work so they’re not worth doing on their own merit.
    
    The morality system is pointless when the characters are is completely set by the story other than the last 1 decision which makes any difference at all.
    
    Nothing in the game is difficult, so just using the same tactics of revolver or rifle solves literally everything. Or the pre mentioned baked beans if you actually need a heal at any point.
    
    The whole thing feels like too many ideas that don’t work together.
    
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