Suzu :miku_happy: on Nostr: Cayhr Meemoo :Cat: supersid nah, I agree. But as I said, it started as a design ...
Cayhr (npub1anj…9ff6) Meemoo (npub148r…tqt6) :Cat: (npub1dkf…z4wz) supersid (npub17l8…62d2) nah, I agree. But as I said, it started as a design decision, and turned this way because of a mix of player dumbness with corporate greed.
I can't think of any game that has full character editing as a simple menu option. They all have, as you said, clever solutions like potions and shit like that, that require in game resources. Character editing tends to be made more difficult for many reasons. Suspension of disbelief, the psychological stuff of players being more invested in their characters if they can't completely change it willy-nilly, or even for padding the games (making you replay the game if you want to change things makes it so "players play our games for more hours", which is good to show on internal spreadsheets. That's also a reason so many games make it so difficult to respec your character's attributes/skills/powers).
Capcom selling this solution as a MTX is the really scummy part (and preventing players to edit the save file themselves is the REALLY scummy part). But I assure you, that they only did it because they thought that they would make more money than the PR damage would be worth. And the only reason for them to think that would be by looking at spreadsheets of the sales of character editing vouchers in Dragon's Dogma 1 and the Monster Hunter titles and seeing that these items made a fuckton of money, because normies invaded and now gamers are even more stupid than they used to be.
That's the shitty part, and that's the blackpill: there is no solving that. It doesn't matter if you complain to the companies, they don't give a fuck because they are still selling a lot of this shit. It doesn't matter if you say you will "vote with your wallet", because for each one of us who don't buy this stuff, there are at least 10 subhuman mouthbreathers who will buy.
All we can do now is support the games and companies we think deserve our support and hope that the whole industry implodes in a few years and 70% of the current AAA studios simply cease to exist, then maybe there will be a possibility for change.
I can't think of any game that has full character editing as a simple menu option. They all have, as you said, clever solutions like potions and shit like that, that require in game resources. Character editing tends to be made more difficult for many reasons. Suspension of disbelief, the psychological stuff of players being more invested in their characters if they can't completely change it willy-nilly, or even for padding the games (making you replay the game if you want to change things makes it so "players play our games for more hours", which is good to show on internal spreadsheets. That's also a reason so many games make it so difficult to respec your character's attributes/skills/powers).
Capcom selling this solution as a MTX is the really scummy part (and preventing players to edit the save file themselves is the REALLY scummy part). But I assure you, that they only did it because they thought that they would make more money than the PR damage would be worth. And the only reason for them to think that would be by looking at spreadsheets of the sales of character editing vouchers in Dragon's Dogma 1 and the Monster Hunter titles and seeing that these items made a fuckton of money, because normies invaded and now gamers are even more stupid than they used to be.
That's the shitty part, and that's the blackpill: there is no solving that. It doesn't matter if you complain to the companies, they don't give a fuck because they are still selling a lot of this shit. It doesn't matter if you say you will "vote with your wallet", because for each one of us who don't buy this stuff, there are at least 10 subhuman mouthbreathers who will buy.
All we can do now is support the games and companies we think deserve our support and hope that the whole industry implodes in a few years and 70% of the current AAA studios simply cease to exist, then maybe there will be a possibility for change.