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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't really play games at all, but I've had Factorio bookmarked for a while, thinking I wanted to try it. Think you've just convinced me.
Well worth it. Active developers, huge modding community, and gameplay that appeals to engineering minds.
I wish I could make people play Factorio as some kind of training.
My son (9), who showed me the game, spent the longest time building parts manually. I kept showing him how to automate, but it didn't really "click" until I was pumping out solid lines of green potions in front of him, then he understood the magic of automation.
It felt oddly similar to interactions with various business departments.
"Look, we're never gonna leave the planet -- I mean, make a profit unless we automate. Otherwise the aliens -- 'er, our competitors are going to rip us to shreds."
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#73Wow that's some incredible brigading. One of the most upvoted comments (it might be the most upvoted one, don't know) is at a mere 98.6K: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5h7gq8/i_was_goofy_at... The most upvoted post is 283K: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/5gn8ru/guardians_of_... Considering how upvoted-items get more and more visible, and thus more and more upvotes, it's a huge achievement for a down…
Looking at the Totes comment, I can see why: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b... That's a lot of linked subreddits, plus you've got people from HN and probably other places going to check out "the most downvoted comment in Reddit's history".
I would bet a lot of HN users that might not play Battlefront, or possibly not that many games at all anymore, still remember past EA shenanigans, and the EA wives stuff, so are willing to believe the accusations and vote accordingly. I count myself in the group somewhat (I'm playing games again recently, but not EA so much).
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#74This is why I've stopped buying new games. At 31 years old, I've realized that learning new things is more important than paying to entertain myself.
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#75It's weird, the Cluetrain Manifesto is old enough to drive now but companies still don't talk like human beings. I'm not sure what EA's social media group is trying to accomplish by engaging in such a clumsy way. http://www.cluetrain.com
I had completely forgotten about this. It makes me sad to read, because it seems like the culture of the tech industry has gone whole-hog on "sterile happytalk that insults the intelligence of markets". Machine learning on the blockchain, anyone?
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#76I left this comment in the previous edition of this post, reproducing here for some context around the "why": There was another post on Reddit which “did the math” a few days ago: unlocking a hero would take around 40 hours of play, modulo a few challenges and other purchases. There was concern about loot boxes and micro transactions affecting gameplay; I feel it’s safe to say those concerns were justified.
... at which point a person can calculate their 40 hours of play * what the time is worth to them, and decide if $80 to just buy the thing is worth it.
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I just bought a AAA title - Destiny 2. Humble Bundle seemed like a decent store, right? I made so many purchases with them in the past. 60 dollars later I had a key that Blizzard wouldn't accept. My Battle.Net account (years old, ooooold) was created in Germany. I lived in different countries since then and currently live in SG, the key that I purchased was locked to the US/Asia Pacific region. Now .. I certainly can…
> For others (Valve, Blizzard) we tend to focus on the positive parts. Well, people have been focusing on the poor policies of blizzard, especially with respect to battle.net, for decades now.[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd
I remember shortly after WoW was released, there was this huge hubub over Cosmos and other add-ons, which led to one of the funniest WoW posts ever.[1]
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#78Can anyone explain what this is about, for non-gamers like myself? Am I understanding it right, in that he paid $80 for a game in which he needs to pay even more to get access to the Darth Vader character?
Is there a price list somewhere for what it costs to purchase various in-game things?
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#79I'm continually fascinated by the gaming community's relationship with EA. It's like, "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 37 times. . . ahh, what the hey, let's throw another 60 quid in this hole. I'm sure this time it'll be different."
It annoys me when people complain about something and then keep doing it (like buying EA games). The solution is really simple: stop buying/playing their games. It's not like they are a monopoly you are forced to give money to.
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#80I'm continually fascinated by the gaming community's relationship with EA. It's like, "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 37 times. . . ahh, what the hey, let's throw another 60 quid in this hole. I'm sure this time it'll be different."
Exactly the same with me. I never buy games at launch and I tend to stay away from F2P games entirely. There's way too many games coming out compared to the free time I have available to play them, so I've accepted that I'm never going to play the vast majority of releases. Others need to come to that same realization -- it's perfectly fine to skip a game if the company's practices suck. As for what I have been playi…
I had to stop playing Factorio after about 2 hours. I'd probably end up spending months on it ... ... such an addicting game!
Absolutely fun, though.