[Video] Bethesda Breaks Promise of Cosmetic only Microtransactions
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Well I mean, I grew up on Fallout, Half Life and Mass Effect.
I have college loans because they convinced me that going into game design was a worthwhile endeavor because I had such great fun in those franchises that I wanted to create, even if it was just some background props, the same kind of immersive and fun worlds that inspired many people to roleplay, write fanfiction, actively engage in huge communities.
Its easy to sit there and forget but these were huge franchises that became a common talking point amongst many, I made many friends talking excitedly even about Mass Effect 3. Then Half Life 3 dried. Andromeda was a lesson on ego and self sabatoge and Fallout 4 bristles with the excrement of what became Fallout 76. I've watched every single franchise that drove my passion to learn dumbshit like Hammer's insane editor during my times off from Highschool and using a shitty student version of XSI 3D modeler that had a built in Source port function.
And just like how those franchises exploded into farts in the wind, I watched my college career tank incredibly hard to the point where I gave up on getting involved in game design altogether because I just can't get my brain wrapped around math nor was I an artistic person. I'm still not, even if others say otherwise, I just copy Aesthetics. My career crashed as these franchises crashed; so in a sick way they're a decent metaphor for what happened to me. Lots of promise, little pay off.
STALKER can only go so far and I love STALKER and Metro. But they're Russian interpretations of post-apoc scenarios which are interesting in of themselves but losing the American counterpart isn't good either. Before there could've been a back and forth, a conversation and exploration of how Russian Society examines the end of the world versus how we in America do it. That's a healthy examination and dialogue and is a way to bring two groups who would've never met together.
Additionally, Fallout is incredibly important to both the CRPG and modern RPG landscape and the loss of the franchise to mediocrity and cashgrab is going to be incredibly damaging to both our historical look back how franchises grow and wither but also to understanding where we were and where we are now. We grew up on Fallout, we have that luxury of seeing the growth and death but the next several generations won't. And that sucks.
I didn't buy the games. I never said anything about buying the games. I regret my Andromeda purchase. I haven't bought F76. Hell, I'm not touching Exodus even though I want to.
That was never my arguement, that was a lament about how because of Bethesda fucking up, I cannot support a Franchise I hold dear.
If anything it means Bethesda won't try to bring their singleplayer-only series of games into multiplayer-only again.
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