Comment by BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.net on So watching my nephew play apple arcade games on his tv has been harrowing.

The spongebob game wasnt so bad. It had like a login bonus but it didnt seem to be too bad But once we got into the lego star wars game the f2p bullshit started. And oh god. This game clearly designed for kids had all the f2p bullshit. Login bonuses. Gridnyness. Multiple in game currencies. The daily/weekly ect missions. The unlockables

But god the racing game was even worse. 100000 things to unlock and basically nothing is by default basically. Sooooooooooo absurdly grindy. And most harrowing of all… i swear to god… 5 seperate in game currencies.

I want to reach out and scream to him “games werent always like this maaaaan”

I also blame Overwatch, that was around first and people made fun of players with default skins there too.

I never got into Overwatch because it just looked like Team Fortress 2 with even more micro transactions. And TF2 is my love/hate game.

Who needs new waifus/husbandos when we already had Heavy?

I’ve always hated Overwatch, mostly because it was so cynically designed from the start to press every button in possible about the le sexy waifu archetypes that would get sucked in and keep paying for it.

But it’s D I V E R S E in its selection of waifus! Please don’t ask why the cowboy character’s name is now different.

what did the cowboy character used to be called in Overwatch??

McCree, after Blizzard lead designer Jesse McCree. Then some bad stuff came out.

Some of them are so incredibly painfully Blizzard-generic from the start that they feel like parodies of previous Blizzard slop. “Widowmaker” comes to mind especially.

Im ngl I have lots of problems with Overwatch but charachter design has never been one.

I guess I have to give them credit for having non-white characters who mostly aren’t teenagers or early 20s, but most of the women still have the same body type (and I definitely remember Mei being called fat for not fitting that mold exactly, just g*mer things).

Mei’s my favorite actually.

Im less put off by body type’s fitting that certain mold than you are really. And the one that does the most to me, Mercy, is my least favorite design lol. And then you got charachter like the body builder one and uh… the tall and lanky one (forgot names) that arent even waifus in the traditional sense.

and I definitely remember Mei being called fat for not fitting that mold exactly

I’ll believe it, and that’s fucked up. It’s part of that “HIRE GAMERS” that was that mad that Aloy looked like an actual redheaded human being that lives in a post-apocalyptic society that doesn’t have easy access to Hollywood tier makeup.

That’s fine. That was a personal taste rant there, entirely subjective.

It doesn’t help that I found previous Blizzard waifu characters grating… especially what they did with Kerrigan over time.

I feel like more people should get made fun of for blizzards idea that shooting lazers at women make them sexy and evil.

Yeah agreed that the waifuification of Kerrigan sucks.

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