• Zomg@lemmy.world
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    It’s a shame, I liked OW1, even with the tired meta and 6v6 more than I liked OW2.

    The loot boxes weren’t predatory, allowing unlocking of skins and content without spending anything extra was a nice balance in my opinion that I wish more games did.

    They took OW1 and bastardized it, it deserves the rating it has. It used to be that new versions of games were better.

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      2 months ago

      It really is a shame. I played so much OW1, and then suddenly it changed to be like all the other modern games with sleazy monetization that I avoid.

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      It used to be that new versions of games were better.

      I for one am very interested to see the quality differences between worker owned game studios and corporate studios. But last I heard they had only just started unionizing.

      And a programmer friend I talked to couldn’t comprehend why he would want to be in a union.

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        And a programmer friend I talked to couldn’t comprehend why he would want to be in a union.

        I also had a programmer friend that was anti-union. He was like “If the place I’m working at sucks, I’ll just find another place.” Very short sighted and optimistic.

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        unions are a harder sell in an industry like tech where it’s common to have a diverse skill set spanning work that could arguable each be it’s own union. does a full stack dev have to join the database admin union before they can write sql queries?

        those diverse skill sets also make the individual value of workers fluctuate a lot more as well.

        I still like the idea of unions but I just don’t know how you can make them work for tech;if anyone has any good resources on the subject I’d love to read more about it

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      The loot boxes weren’t predatory

      Ehhh, they were basically the same thing as a slot machine. The battlepass is certainly worse, as it just encourages rampant (not so) microtransactions, but just because the current battlepass system is really predatory, doesn’t mean the old loot box system wasn’t predatory at all. It was just less predatory.

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        Well I guess what I mean by that is that loot boxes were free to obtain AND open through leveling and weren’t exclusive to forking over money.

        No lootboxes at all is the ultimate goal, but I’d take OW1 lootbox style over nearly any others.