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the "you can't avoid AI, it's in all software now" argument might be true for infrastructure, where we have limited agency over the platforms and systems that make up our society, but is hilariously untrue for video games, a completely optional and easily ignored part of all of our lives

headfallsoff

@headfallsoff.com

engagement-driven monetisation and gamification systems like gacha are everywhere in games. they have had real material negative impacts in genres i enjoy. they are a massive chunk of the market now. yes, i cant "undo" it. but i have been able to avoid them easily by just playing other games

13/10/26, 12:28 am117 reposts970 likes

mdi

@mdaigual.bsky.social

Lucky us there are SO MANY GAMES, new indis, old games, we can play for free.

you love the desert ΘΔ&

@kzinssiebroiler.bsky.social

i get so much shit for not wanting to play games that are getting active balance patches because i want the game i play 3 years from now to be the same as the one i play right now but like theres so many games pre patch culture. and even the ones getting them now will eventually get their last one

Pod

@poddraws.bsky.social

I had to just stop playing Smash Bros. because of this. ... And because of the DLC schemes. Mostly those, to be honest.

Scare-ah 🏳️‍⚧️💙☁️

@thatcoolblue.bsky.social

remember how xenoblade 2 had a gacha system for special blades and you literally had to grind for in game cash for core crystals to keep trying for The Rare Guys You Actually Want

pata-hikari.bsky.social

@pata-hikari.bsky.social

The soultion to this problem was to not grind and just play with what you get.

Azalea 3d wallpaper

@sleepyazalea.bsky.social

Xenoblade 2 has the best implemented gacha system of all time, and it is so much worse off for having a gacha system at all.

Elki

@elkilg.bsky.social

It's so easy to not play a video game. Just don't play the evil video game. Or don't play the video game from the evil company, it's easy, you have to not do a thing.

tragic girl dream pixie

@seelie.bsky.social

even if ai is in everything that comes out from today onward then i still have a lifetime's worth of games built up i can play if i need to. possibly multiple lifetimes' worth given how many games i have on steam.