▲ 107 ▼ Valve spent 2025 ripping apart Deadlock and putting it back together, and it delivered better live service than most live service games (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 10 months ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 30 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (7 children) GAAS is a scam even if you simp the billionaire making it. permalink fedilink source hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago (3 children) Hard disagree. Both Dota and CS2 are truly f2p, you get the same experience wether you buy stuff or choose not to. Of course the gambling stuff is predator, but the games themselves are great and actually free. You just want to buy a hat cause it's fun. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children) Two good games as a service doesn’t excuse the huge rotten pile of GAAS scams. Two shiny red apples in a pile of compost still makes it a heap of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 months ago (1 child) Sure. But you claimed that Valves games are scams. And they aren't and neither will be Deadlock. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago But but but…. I don’t care who it is making and selling them, games as a service is toxic to players and anti consumer. TF2 normalized and opened the door to a lot of the shit that turned into loot boxes with its micro transactions for keys to get better weapons and cosmetics. GAAS are scams, even if some of them might behave and don’t shit all over the living room floor. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 point 10 months ago* Gaas is the best model for online competitive games. Best value for developers and players. permalink fedilink source parent [–] doublah@sopuli.xyz 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) Well it's not GAAS(yet), it has 0 mtx so far. permalink fedilink source parent [–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 point 10 months ago Not all of them. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago (3 children) Hard disagree. Both Dota and CS2 are truly f2p, you get the same experience wether you buy stuff or choose not to. Of course the gambling stuff is predator, but the games themselves are great and actually free. You just want to buy a hat cause it's fun. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children) Two good games as a service doesn’t excuse the huge rotten pile of GAAS scams. Two shiny red apples in a pile of compost still makes it a heap of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 months ago (1 child) Sure. But you claimed that Valves games are scams. And they aren't and neither will be Deadlock. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago But but but…. I don’t care who it is making and selling them, games as a service is toxic to players and anti consumer. TF2 normalized and opened the door to a lot of the shit that turned into loot boxes with its micro transactions for keys to get better weapons and cosmetics. GAAS are scams, even if some of them might behave and don’t shit all over the living room floor. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children) Two good games as a service doesn’t excuse the huge rotten pile of GAAS scams. Two shiny red apples in a pile of compost still makes it a heap of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 months ago (1 child) Sure. But you claimed that Valves games are scams. And they aren't and neither will be Deadlock. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago But but but…. I don’t care who it is making and selling them, games as a service is toxic to players and anti consumer. TF2 normalized and opened the door to a lot of the shit that turned into loot boxes with its micro transactions for keys to get better weapons and cosmetics. GAAS are scams, even if some of them might behave and don’t shit all over the living room floor. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 months ago (1 child) Sure. But you claimed that Valves games are scams. And they aren't and neither will be Deadlock. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago But but but…. I don’t care who it is making and selling them, games as a service is toxic to players and anti consumer. TF2 normalized and opened the door to a lot of the shit that turned into loot boxes with its micro transactions for keys to get better weapons and cosmetics. GAAS are scams, even if some of them might behave and don’t shit all over the living room floor. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago But but but…. I don’t care who it is making and selling them, games as a service is toxic to players and anti consumer. TF2 normalized and opened the door to a lot of the shit that turned into loot boxes with its micro transactions for keys to get better weapons and cosmetics. GAAS are scams, even if some of them might behave and don’t shit all over the living room floor. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 point 10 months ago* Gaas is the best model for online competitive games. Best value for developers and players. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] doublah@sopuli.xyz 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) Well it's not GAAS(yet), it has 0 mtx so far. permalink fedilink source parent