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Who was your favorite character of the bunch? I always like to see who people gravitate towards
Who was your favorite character of the bunch? I always like to see who people gravitate towards
While I will kinda miss it being gone, I think it’s probably for the best. With how little the price difference was between gold and game pass, and how much better a deal the latter was, I can’t imagine there were many folks still buying the former anyhow
I was doing the same thing with driver combos back in XC2
Dudeee. I spent so much time as a kid just farting around replaying that demo just to see how much chaos I could get, or what insane shenanigans I could get up to. Somehow I’ve played way more of that demo than the actual game now that I own it.
I’m just not really sure what those other ways to make money could be. Other than monetizing a service outright via a subscription or selling a product to the users, I don’t really see a good way for online social media to be revenue neutral or positive.
This is a good summary of whats going on and why the mods are striking.
I have to wonder if some of it comes from the idea that casual games are generally a different audience than “core” games. Like someone playing candy crush on their phone is counted as someone who plays games, but I wouldn’t lump them in with the kinda person that at least casually follows the industry and picks up a few new games for their PS5 every year or the person that is super active in the indie scene.
Honestly seems like a lot of major sites are imploding. Stackoverflow’s mods are striking, Twitter is on a downward spiral and likely to go bankrupt this year, Reddit is axing itself, etc.
It’ll be interesting to see what ends up happening to the internet after. I think a return to more niche forums or community-run things like lemmy is unlikely to be fully mainstream, but I think enough folks will shake off the major platforms onto these to get them really active.
Honestly I’m surprised that Quake still has an active playerbase!