List of Things From 2023 That Can Totally Get F*cked

It's that time again! Hop aboard this never-ending train of loathing while we count down everything from 2023 that can get f*cked!

[banger88]

6. Forced Online-Only for Single-Player Games
5. Teasers for Games That Are Still Years Away

These are the ones that piss me off the most. Also having "download required" on a retail physical game. I'm a collector/preservationist and any single-player disc based game that requires a mandatory download can "Get F*cked" as well. It's the reason I never bought Avatar.

[Leeroyw]

I'll just add to everyone elses:
Gaas mechanics in single player games.
Badly written characters chosen for diversity instead of their value to the story.
Video games journalism flooded with either AI or activists.

[shinoff2183]

Thanks for the heads up on avatar. I didn't known that yet. I was fairly interested in it. Now it's a cheap buy. I mean cheap.

[phoenixwing]

Lack of feminine character models

[Profchaos]

Played Ubisofts immortals it's all female models even the male ones look feminine same as Hogwarts

[Abnor_Mal]

Forced cross play in general

[JEECE]

Yet people begged devs for this for years.

[Abnor_Mal]

The only people that were begging for this were Xbox fans, because many multiplayer games were dying on their platform of choice.

Well to be fair, Sony did ask MS back in the PS360 era to do cross play but MS said no. Years later when their MP games were wastelands they then wanted to do cross play.

Then the narrative of how cross play will save dying games by injecting more life by combining player base began. Unfortunately I have yet to hear of a game that was actually saved by cross play and is still active. It only served to give those games a few more months if any.

Oh I don’t know if I’m remembering correctly, but wasn’t it Final Fantasy14 that Sony wanted to do cross play with but MS said no? Now they’re finally getting FF14 on their system after a decade, with cross play.

[JEECE]

@Abnor_Mal

Unfortunately even people on PlayStation campaigned for crossplay. When Sony was blocking it in certain games during the PS4 era, the games media/influencers turned their followers into mobs to harass Sony to change and force crossplay, and everyone willingly went along.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you that it's annoying. I just think gamers are being delusional if we act like this was something that was forced on us. We asked for this.

[Abnor_Mal]

@JEECE

“ I just think gamers are being delusional if we act like this was something that was forced on us. We asked for this.”

We can only ask for something once the companies make us aware that it’s possible. In other words companies manipulate the customer base into thinking what they want them to think, but at the same time get the customer to believe it was their idea in the first place and not the companies idea.

“the games media/influencers turned their followers into mobs to harass Sony to change and force crossplay, and everyone willingly went along.”

Let’s not forget MS in the background from the very beginning pulling the puppet gamers strings by saying they don’t believe in wall gardens and we should all play together.
Which then riled up the games media and the easily wind up people, and so the march of the wooden soldiers began.

[ShwaaMan]

I don’t know all of the details but with the developers behind The Day Before, but wouldn’t what they did be considered fraud? Are there any lawsuits going at them? Because fuck them seriously, I was never interested in the game to begin with but this seems like a cash grab from preorders, and I think the Gollum developers did something similar. What the hell is going on and why can they get away with this new predatory practice? Seriously, does anyone know more?

[Profchaos]

My list of things I hate about modern gaming is pretty similar.

1) Seasons and stat resets - if I have to grind in a online game don't take my progress away from me because a calendar day has rolled over.

2) Forced online for single player games huge hate of mine.

3) Mtx, lootbox and anything other than a proper story expansion E.g. Phantom liberty. If you want to charge me for things that used to just be a cheat code hard pass from me.

4) Games not being on the disc or cart. I think all games should be multi disc or publisher's should just opt for the larger switch cart from the get go if their games require a download to play.

5) open world bloat from hunting treasure chest icons in Hogwarts to assassins creed why bore people just to expand the games length.

6) games not coming with their day 1 patch installed. Why not scope it into the release plans these are issues that are known already I'd honestly take a q week delay if it meant a polished product on day 1

[DarkZane]

@Profchaos

For #6, it's impossible, games are printed on discs a month before the release date, if not more.

[Demetrius]

Exactly fr 👏

[Nacho_Z]

This list is absolutely spot on.

[Knightofelemia]

Money sucking Star Citizen.

[Chocoburger]

An actual GOOD LIST from a website in 2024? Its a miracle!
I agree with all of it, and its partly why I've been focusing more on past generations of gaming, and mostly been ignoring what the previous 5 years had to offer.

[Profchaos]

You're not the only one I've been playing so much retro content NES, SNES, PS1/2, n64 and GameCube lately because the dry spells are so lengthy now it takes forever to get a new game that isn't a grindfest online thing.

[Barlos]

Activision Blizzard and Xbox are top of my list.