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Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions (www.pcgamesn.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10828130

Always good to see someone in the industry push back on all of these shitty tactics the AAA publishers want to push.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

The Tetris world record recently got broken and people will be playing it until forever. No one is going to be playing any subscription based game in a handful of years simply because the servers or company will no longer exist. If I can’t buy it for life, it’s not worth my time.

Vote with your money.