The crew at blackandwhitegames.net are at it again. This time they respond directly to Jack Thompson, in regards to his interview on Fox News today, relating to the NIU shooting.
"The most important games event of Latin America, gamescom latam, has unveiled the finalists for its flagship award ceremony, the gamescom latam BIG Festival, which celebrates the best in the global market of games." - Gamescom.
Microtransactions have gotten ridiculously overpriced in recent years, with titles now offering cosmetic skins worth more than some games.
The elephant in the room tho is personal accountability. It’s easy (albeit basic) to blame the big, bad corpo, but microtransactions wouldn’t be where they are if gamers didn’t spend money on them. As it stands the MTs usually make more than the game. Publishers know raising game prices will cause backlash, so they do MTs to compensate. But the adult conversation is consumers determine the success of products with their wallets. So if MTs are a huge thing, it’s because we as consumers told them we like them by giving them a lot of money for them. So if you don’t want them to be a thing, convince your fellow gamers to stop buying them and expect that games will be decently more expensive. You all can disagree all you want, but reality is a bitch, and eventually you have to live in it.
Trying to convince people is the least realistic thing. If we are trying to be adults, actual action is what changes things not "convincing campaigns" on platforms owned by the people 'you' are going against. It's madness and idealistic.
There never was, the only time I paid for a microtransaction was on Blacklight Retribution (PS4) and it was because I enjoyed the game a lot so I felt the devs should get something for all that entertainment (€5 "membership")
The devs wouldn’t get that though, that shit goes straight to the higher ups who do f*** all let’s be honest.
Probably, but I wasn't as cynical back then and €5 wasn't a big ask to get the guns with grinding instead of renting them, and the game was good (still is on the PS5/4)
I couldn’t believe what Blizzard charged for horse armor and cosmetics in Diablo 4…
I remember back in the day when a season pass was $15 and you got everything included in it. Now, I see them at $60 and you still don’t get everything.
As soon as gaming wasn't deemed nerdy anymore, and reached the casuals this happened. We're smart, but casuals play mobile games and other stuff, and don't really have anything to compare. They think gaming is supposed to be like this and pay for in game purchases.
Deliver Us Mars developer Keoken Interactive has laid off the majority of its staff after struggling to secure funding …
The industry model and standards and who's in place to approve/disapprove have changed ^ what Keoken is feeling now is much like the Mobile burst 15 years ago. Expect more to come out of your own finances. Investors are treating games like movies and now (thank$ a lot for involving yourself hollywood) only the big (and money blind) investors get involved, effectively killing a lot of content that would come out with proper non-gate-kept and/or with incentivized funding.
Sorry but i couldn't care less, Deliver us Mars was as woke game as they come, climate change disaster, all female cast plus only a comic relief indian guy (it takes only 5 minutes into the game for the main female character to say how smart she is compared to the guy), evil white guys, ugly females, then add generic gameplay and puzzles (how many times do you have to cut things with a laser for gods sake), you can't change anything in how the events develop so 0 agency in the story, sub par graphics even while using UE4. So well, go woke go broke, that's how it works.
That stinks but with a 68 average critic rating on their games probably made it difficult for people to invest considering there is a bloat of games getting made these days.
This is an interesting read and what the guys at this site are doing are they are giving gamers a collective intelligent outraged voice lets support them.
Someone should address this guy. Does this guy play games at all?If he can blame games for everything why not all forms of entertainment like the very T.v. he spreads his hate message of games in which he is using as a tool to kill gaming
Jack Thompson bites the John Thompson and likes it
Lets see, I've played games since I was a wee little lad. On top of that I was on a semi-professional Paintball team for 5 years, which is a hell of a lot more realistic than say CS. And I've also dabbed a little into Airsoft, which utilizes guns that are almost identical in appearance to their real life counterpart. Yet despite all of those experiences I have the patience of a saint and will more often than not walk away from almost any fight, even if it makes me look like a pansy. So if someone can use a tragically flawed person, such as the one in the recent school shooting, to prove that games are ruining our world, can't you use me to prove otherwise?
the article is very well done and the points in there couldn't be more valid. and despite my expert training on 'simulators' *raises eyebrow* i only just managed to get a remotely good standing score at the range (100ft) with an air rifle last week, after about 8 weeks of going there.
seriously, next he will be saying that all the gang culture in america and britain can be resolved by simply confiscating their controllers.
anyway, see you all later, apparently i have a genocide to commit...