Why I buy indie games more than AAA game these days.

[washu73]

It all comes down to why I play games in the first place.

Life is stressful and I want a fun game that I can use to decompress and have fun in and forget about the stupid and horrible parts of the world , like politics and all of its associated BS.

And AAA games attract activists who want to use the game as a platform to promote whatever cause they support and they use toxic tactics to do this which trying to be part of that community less than enjoyable , it is like trying to relax while there is a raging argument and insults flying around in all directions. And the only real way to combat this is with zero tolerance moderation and ban anyone who even looks like they might be toxic, which makes everyone afraid to talk for fear of being banned , replacing one problem with another.

But obscure little independent games don't have a large enough fan base to be an attractive platform for activists , so they tend to be far more relaxed and friendlier.

So yeah, toxic activists kind of killed AAA game fandoms and the games associated with them for me.

[V3LTA]

Or you can just ignore all the A's and play what ever you like without categorizing the sht out of it before you even touch it :)

[Justice]

Indie games and retro game are the feature for gaming these days until politics and activism are kicked out from gaming industry

[MonkehMaster]

agreed, I stick to indies, cause big company games are littered with politics/etc.., outrageous pricing, dlc's with little to no content and again outrageous prices, skins, ads, crappy 3rd party launchers, signups for sites that aren't needed aside from harvesting our data, not to mention multiplayers riddled with cheaters, rehashes of the same old thing, bugs that almost never get fixed and the rest of the huge list of issues surrounding them.

have a nice day peeps

[crunchyfrog]

While I don't to play triple A games these days as they're often banal crap, I don't know why you think you need to play a game and communicate with a community or even others in game unless the game specifically needs it.

And that's got bugger all to with triple A or indie - ALL games get this.

And of course lower user count will mitigate this, but so will turning off chat.

If this is a problem to you and you're playing online games where you need to play with others, I recommend doing what I do - alter WHEN you play or where you play.

Because I'm disabled and my body clock is messed up, I can be playing at any time of the day or night. So I've found some optimum times.

If I'm about 6 am in the morning there's virtually nobody on much but you might get the odd other person and they tend to be quiet and do their own thing. This doesn't change much until about lunchtime, when you'll get some people jump in for a sly bit of gaming and they generally are OK as their time is obviously precious.

But once you get to around 4pm when work and schools finish, this is the worst time. Sure, you get most people on, but you also get the chance of the most toxic and annoying people. But come 10pm it stops almost with a finality. And this is the sweet spot - from here to about 2am is when you get the more reasonable mature people who are relishing their quiet time and kick back and play.

And the beauty of this too is that these like minded people will play with you regularly if you reciprocate.

[Crazy Tiger]

I just buy what looks fun to me. I don't care about the labels internet people give them.

[Tito Shivan]

You have more chance to have a niche gaming itch scratched by an indie dev than by a big AAA publisher.

[KaveMan]

The new term used for these modern games is now called OOO (Overhyped, Overrated, Overpriced)

[senrign]

I don't care about how many or how little A on a game. I only play games i know i'll enjoy and that's it. It could cost 5 dollar or 100 dollar, if its worth playing i'll play all the same.

[veracsthane]

Publicado originalmente por Justice:

Indie games and retro game are the feature for gaming these days until politics and activism are kicked out from gaming industry

especially the chat ban bunk for multiplayer games. im sorry but you cant convince me anything said in chat is worse then the 10-15 mins of afking i see across the board. they can spam the n word and its still not as bad as the 10-15 mins of blatantly afking. i have never seen anything as crippling as the blantant cheating in 1v1 and afking in team pvp. and no. the companies dont do ♥♥♥♥ about either when compared to the chat bans which are almost always politcal bs or caused by the cheaters and afks as people finally erupt.

heroes of the storm i literally intentionally went to bronze from gold found a premade of bronze players and went to 90% winrate and the only rule was you have to try and if we need something you dont do that toxic "but i dont want to" crap. we where diamond in a week and we had that 90% winrate until gold which it dropped to 80% i think i was the last to quit out right and i was banned after blizzard banned their top streamer because of how broken the ban bot was. every multiplayer game ive touched has worked like this since.