Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

I was thinking about this one while writing the last post I just wrote, and I think depending on when you were born the degree of which this counts as a truly unpopular opinion will change. But, I think free to play games are a cancer on the gaming industry.

The gaming industry does so much ***** stuff that I think free to play games are able to get away with a lot of stuff that really shouldn't fly. But they'll say it allows people to play games who may not have been able to afford to play the title had it been a full priced game and then it just gets forgiven, while it absolutely rinses its player base through predatory and manipulative monetisation.

It is funny, because games like Warframe are spoken about really warmly it seems, but this is one of the most predatory games I have ever played. I dunno how it seems to always slip under the radar. I remember pricing up just how much it would cost just to colour my Warframe in, and the costs got into the hundreds - for literally basic colours, because you had to buy colours in packs, and the packs were like 20 odd quid a piece. Insanity. And the fact they sort of force you to spend money, as otherwise you need to wait for real world time (and sometimes like a ludicrous amount of time too, like we are talking days' worth) for things to craft just sucks.

Nothing kills my interest in a title like it announcing it is going to be free to play. Logging in and seeing a convoluted series of currencies and upgrade paths, clearly designed to bamboozle the player, so they look towards the much more simplified real money options. It just sucks. And every time they'll say, 'but you can get all of this for free!' and technically this is true, but they exclude the part where you'd need to play the game at the highest level for 16 hours a day for the next decade to actually get everything for free.

I know not all of these games are like this, I am pretty sure I remember Apex gave you the option to basically just buy everything for a pretty reasonable price. That goes back a few years now, so I dunno if that has changed, but these options are not offered enough.

I wish every one of these games just gave me the option to pay the full price of a title and just get all of the content included, but very few of them do that. Instead, a free to play game is either a massive grind, or just ends up being more expensive than a free to play title and not even by a small margin, we are talking like significantly more for considerably less content and value. I wish this model would die.

I think it isn't for those of us who are older (I have no idea how old you are). But I have seen people who argue very strongly in the defence of them who are on the younger end, because it allows them to play games they couldn't afford otherwise, which is why I included the top disclaimer. You have to remember; some people have been raised on free to play models and weren't even alive for the days when games were content complete out of the box for one price. Old man yells at cloud be damned.

F2P games is one of those things where I see the appeal from it, but from the outside, it does feel like a system that'll just inevitably go too far with the monetization. Because only the bigger f2p games can keep reliably getting new content forever, and only the bigger f2p games feel obligated to go too far with it and then the rest just disappear. Exactly the same as the mobile market in general, Apple Arcade can try all it wants, mobile gaming is still mobile gaming and I feel entirely disinterested in it.

also even as someone who tries to save money with gaming, there's so many games that end up on sale for like a couple of bucks, its not pricey to find quality games outside of f2p nowadays

Yeah, this is true, especially on PC where games can go on deep discounts very quickly thanks to 3rd party resellers. If you can be patient and wait for a bit, gaming doesn't have to be an expensive hobby at all, outside of those entry costs for the hardware. It makes the already very flimsy justification for free to play models needing to exist even flimsier.

Maybe, but it is unpopular gaming opinions, not unpopular Nintendolife opinions lol

Pokemon is overrated. That's it. That's the post.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko okay.

I gotta agree, even though I'm a Pokemon fan.

@EllaTheKawaiiNeko
I agree, but i can definitely see the appeal. I also think that it is a franchise littered with nostalgia, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

Mother 3 is better than earthbound. Mostly because of the less grinding though.

@Kairu So my collection of cardboard is worth nothing!!!

@Kermit1
That’s how I feel about Nintendo labo

You don't have to grind in Earthbound.

I don't know why people think you do, especially since Mother 3 is more challenging.

@Kairu I get what you mean.

@Kairu I only keep the cards with the artwork I like, and a few cards worth $$$.

@Kairu Uh, 30. I'll check later to see the legit number.

I do agree Pokemon is overrated, in the sense that no way has Pokemon consistently earned its position in modern times as the most profitable series in the world. Like imagine working on a bold, big budget game for 4+ years like people have and you get outsold to an absurd degree by those lame D/P remakes. That's just unfair at that point. I'm obviously ignoring my usual point when I say that, since "overrated" implies ratings, not popularity.

I felt the same way when a bunch of cool games were coming out in 2009 on Wii and DS and all of them combined sold significantly less than "what if NSMB again, but more people". Though at least cool, niche games don't consistently die on Switch, so it is better than that at least.

@Kairu I probably had 200 cards but I gave the bulk of my collection to my brother (in other words, the ones I didn't want).

@Eagly That's a hungry crocodile

GBA Video is not terrible. Most of the criticisms I see on GBA Video seems to ignore that this was a way to watch cartoons on the go well before video iPods and smartphones existed. Of course it's not going to be DVD quality, but it still was impressive to watch video on the go back then, let alone have video on a device that wasn't meant to be a video player.

There's no use for it now, I can watch movies and shows on my smartphone, but back in 2004, it was cool novelty to be able to watch a show on my GBA.

@Dev9417 Yes yes hallow knight! I love it so much!