• Seefoo@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    honestly though, the game is a complete package AND it doesn’t come with a bunch of fucking microtransactions/live-service/etc. etc. Gaming is the one area where I think we would all like to see our games be made the same way they were 10-15 years ago, instead of the bullshit from today.

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      2 days ago

      the same way they were 10-15 years ago

      So with more crunch and no unions? It goes both ways, it’s not a monolithic culture where passage of time simply makes things worse

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        18 hours ago

        True, I didn’t really mean it to that extreme. and yea not saying gaming industry was perfect, there was plenty to gripe about in the past. Just on average, as a whole, the industry seems worse. The one exception I think are Indie games.

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        You should see unions soon. Gaming industry is going to force every game designer and developer under a union because of the insecurities. A union guarantees they can’t fuck with you like the crunches. Or the absolute worse is when they have to do unpaid overtime which I think is illegal.

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          1 day ago

          Most office workers are categorized as computer work, which was lobbied to be exempt from paid overtime laws.