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Club PA Newsletter #111

Added 2024-07-17 22:13:20 +0000 UTC

It can be suggested that PC Gamers are simply built different. Certainly, they build different machines to play games on; these are facts in evidence. But is it possible that there's more to it - something fundamental? That's the theme we intend to explore in today's incomparable strip.

I have a greater resistance to the dark forces that exist in a freemium shooty. My response to The Last Descendent, for example, was to install Warframe. If I'm gonna do this type of shit, I might as well do this type of shit in a context I already did it. You know? If I want to double jump or shoot guys and use supernatural powers I could play Warframe or, shit, even Destiny. I have a character over there with tons of time. What I'm not gonna do is start crawling through a comparable experience elsewhere and I'm definitely not gonna make some kind of investment over there.

I developed an allergy to MMOs broadly a ways back, the only time this law was suspended was with Final Fantasy XIV, which I think is 14. The gameplay was largely the same but the story was really compelling to me and also it has Chocobos and Triple Triad. That allergy slowly began to take over my feelings about Freemium stuff because an MMO has many of the same dynamics - it just includes a cost up front. Ryan would say that "they're MMOs with extra steps."

The issue with The First Descendant wasn't the placement of the Z key, which my wicked koala hands can find and press with ease. Rather, it's that the second it tries to teach me the purchase experience inside the gameplay, an alarm goes off in my head and I have to run away.

Currently running away,

(CW)TB