• yesman@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Competitive multiplayer games are lazy because they rely on other players to be the content. And they are perpetually vexed when their customer/ labor don’t perform their intended function.

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      This is why I’ve always hated having to do pvp in a pve game for whatever reason (not often these days but mmos still sometimes) I’m bad at pvp and hate being content for other better players! I want to play a game, not be farmed for kills! Guh.

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        7 hours ago

        Ya I hate having to go in the wilderness in OSRS. Just feels like weird creepy predatory behavior that I don’t enjoy in a game I’m paying $18CAD/month to play 🙄

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      I think that’s a rather shallow way of looking at. Would you describe something like chess as ‘lazy’ then?

      A good competitive game has to put a lot of thought and care into its design to make it so that two players trying to make each other miserable actually ends up coming out the other end as a fun experience.