• onceuponaban@kbin.social
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    World of Tanks. Came for the fun FPS/TPS hybrid gameplay, left for Wargaming’s unforgivably greedy and short-sighted monetization practices. But not before siphoning away a lot more of my time than they deserved before I caught on.

  • This one hits close to home. My best friend and I used to love this one game as kids but it gradually became less fun as every meta shift further pushed passive play. We discovered innovative strategy after innovative strategy and yet were losing multiple times per hour in a game with a queue time of ~15-30 minutes, which is bonkers. Anyway, I just lost the game and so have you.

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      Remember how good it was without the silver store or season passes. When the new content was a DLC that dropped once a year and you just played it. You could go for a stroll on Mars. Talk to Osiris at the lighthouse. And DLC content you paid for didn’t just get stolen. Yeah.

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      I quit when they released House of Wolves on Destiny 1 and took out half the content for everyone without the expansion. Looks like they just kept doing that and people keep paying them for it.

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        Last time I played was right after the British update. They changed the run speed and the hit reg was really off. There were other things the community was really upset with, like the weapon choices for the British didn’t make sense apparently. Then a new update came out that was all about new game types, to include parachuting into matches, announced with a trailer that was of super low quality. When that update launched, it added crap no one cared about while failing to address other issues the community was more upset with. I was never the best player, but at least I could tell why I wasn’t hitting if I missed. After the Brits, I couldn’t hit anything. I stood 15 feet from an enemy and we emptied our mags and no one was hit, and we were stationary. Dude killed me with his shovel while I was throwing a grenade. Seemed like the player quality was starting to dip as well. Less mic use, more CO’s just yelling and not listening, more infighting between squad leads. To me, the spirit of the game had died, so I uninstalled.

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          Last time I played it was really difficult on console to find anyone with a mic, and the griefing was brutal, and then you couldn’t find a commander who wasn’t a 9 year old trying to spawn themself a tank.

          I loved that game, but it really declined

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            How many times did you want to play MG or push with smokes as rifleman but had to switch to squad lead because no one was putting down garries

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      I know how you can make it better. Just post some classified documents about vehicles to fix in the forums!

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        What I really want is for enough people to move to minetest that it gets the modders it really needs to be a serious competitor, but considering youtube and the fact that you can still mod older versions that would take a miracle (or Microsoft messing up in spectacular fashion)