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Why Buy Live Service Games If They’d Disappear. To top it all of, most of these games are 60 or 70 dollars at least. (www.gamescordia.com)
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[–] snooggums@midwest.social 19 points 4 months ago (34 children)

There are a ton of underwhelming and outright predatory single player games too. I think the biggest takeaway is that live service is the new hotness for over monetized live service games using popular IP and players should be extra wary of those games just like they should be for single player games.

There are still a few live service games that are not predatory. I picked up Helldivers 2 for the $40 standard price and have unlocked all the warbonds and bought a chunk of the stuff off the super store with super credits earned in missions. While you can spend more money on the game if you want, it is not in your face or predatory at all. And they are keeping the living world changing on a constant basis.

It can be done, just have to watch out for the worst offenders like Multiversus.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

God, helldiver's is a little intimidating with the constant updates to the game.

[–] all-knight-party@kbin.run 2 points 4 months ago

It's slowed down now, and either way you can feel free to run missions at any difficulty you're comfortable with to get equipment for viable builds.

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