/v/ - Video Games

Valve does it with Dota2, and with CSGO they add cool new maps every season and then remove from them game a few months later. All of this costs money to play, and you never get to play them for as long as you want.

>>14784471

It's shitty, but at least Valve let's people download the maps and let people play them in dedicated servers. Even the Co-Op Strike missions were made permanent. It's not perfect, but still better then ActiBlizzard taking them away so no one gets to play them.

I hadn't really thought about it, to be honest, but you're right, this sort of thing is happening more. The only "logical" reason I can think of for limited time modes is to keep engagement up through spikes of activity (quick, get in the game and see this new thing before it's GONE FOREVER), getting players who may have dropped the game back into it, and maybe hook them into being regulars again. And of course there's financial incentive to do so as well, through microtransactions and whatnot.

I have less of a problem with them if they're holiday events that come back every year, particularly if the rewards associated with that event stick around year to year, or are available elsewhere after the fact. Look at WoW's holiday events, for example. Everything for each holiday is available and relatively easily accessible every year, except for the yearly Winter Veil gifts (which are still available, but at a low drop from a daily boss). No matter what year you start playing the game, if you do a holiday event, you can pick up any reward you want, it'll just take more effort to earn everything if you come in later.

What was the first game to do this? What other examples are there of games pulling this shit? I think this trend also encompasses limited time microtransactions as well, like the compendiums for Dota 2 or the war chests for Starcraft 2.

>>14784446

>>14784485

If I had to guess, it probably started from Hearthstone. There were these game modes with special rules much like you described that were around for a certain time only. Like you said, it was fine for a F2P game, but this shit is ridiculous. It's probably to keep players 'hooked' so they dedicate their time to one game in particular. I recognize this scheme, because I play Warframe.

>>14784485

>>14784495

MMOs have been doing it since the beginning.

the only way this is justifiable is if the gamemode returns annually, then it's special. otherwise it's just a waste used to get a boost in players. shit like what fortnight did was just teaming with disney to jew the goyim harder.

>>14784531

smissmas and halloween on TF2 are good examples of this.

>>14784550

Good thing OP has more than just overshit as examples then.

Its called selling based on "fear of missing out". The problem is that your audience tends to stop giving a fuck the moment they do miss out on something. I'd just like for normals to realize this the first time around instead of taking the bait every flavor of the month. A man can dream right?

>>14784566

Not really, no. Aspartame is one hell of a drug.

>>14784599

Does it in any way invalidate what OP said?

>>14784446

I don't mind timed events if the game is multiplayer. Shit like with what they did with Hitman drives me up the fucking wall, though. Especially so because it's the only game in this decade that I actually enjoy.

>>14784635

I remember one year for the Christmas event, they added in a special Christmas tree you could plant in your house, but only if you were a member. If you became a member after the fact, you didn't get the tree, even if you completed the event as a free player.

Guess who first got membership like a month or two later?

>>14784677

They actually changed that later on after realizing members exclusive holiday shit was a dumb decision

>>14784599

People can reply to you without commenting on the validity of what you said you ranging autist. Go draw some sonic OC.

>>14784446

>lowkey

Go back to Twitter and take your nigger words with you.

>>14785191

Because if people have too much fun fucking around rather than being tryhard shitters, they'll feel satisfied after a few dozen hours and wont play again. I'm not joking.

>>14785198

So this is why MMO mobs are money printing machines.

>>14785285

What's the matter anon? Did Thanos turn your dog into dust?

>>14785270

>leftypolgoesbacktocollege.jpg

>>14784446

aren't OW's locked game modes available through their custom servers system? also, i kind of understand stuff like thanos mode since it's just a tiny, temporary adjustment that spices the game up a bit. it makes ridiculous shit that might in other cases break the game more affordable since it's not a permanent thing.

>>14785335

They are not. The event modes are only available in Custom Games during the event. Afterwards, Blizzard REMOVES the options, even though they're already done.

>>14785181

I think the poll was successful enough for them to decide to bring it back on occasion. They stated that they figured it would work best if it came and went because player engagement dropped off pretty quickly after the first couple months, and there was less of a point in keeping it around permanently if the players who were interested dropped to such a low population over time. Which is about the only time I can argue that a limited time game mode makes sense, I think, when it becomes something of a competition. Turn it on, let players compete to see who does the best this time, turn it off, repeat.

>>14785354

yeah that's ridiculous then

Blizzard started it with their tavern brawls in hearthstone I think, which were just fun little 4 day events that occurred each week and let them explore new gameplay concepts and gave players an easy free pack a week. While those usually wore out their welcome by the time the four days was up, the more recent way this stuff has been done is truly despicable, just a way for blizzkikes and other devs to temporarily reinflate their playerbase.

>>14785395

It really wouldn't hurt anything to let players challenge each other to friendly Tavern Brawls at any time. Just like friendly duels, no rewards or anything (apart from the XP you get for leveling your heroes which is purely for cosmetics after level 10), you'd just select whatever brawl you wanted from a list and have fun with it. I have no idea why they wouldn't do that, it wouldn't take away from the main game any more than friendly duels already do, and I'm sure it would take very little coding to add in. I dunno if there are any statistics out there of how many games of each type players play, but I doubt that friendly games are very popular overall.

Considering how many complaints I've seen when certain brawls make a return, this could also be a good reason to make some events limited time. In case your event turns out to not really be all that fun, it can be over and done with quickly and replaced with something potentially better the following week.

>>14784446

>World of Danks

>Lunar mode

Heh. If I recall correctly they make time limited game modes every now and then. Battle Royale, Leviathan, 100th tank anniversary, Chaffee racing, Moon shenanigans… Yeah, it's gay they're gone forever afterwards, but WG are turbokikes, no big surprise they're dicks.

>>14784761

>space station 13

>players are concerned with gameplay

>tf2

>not on the left side

Do us all a favor and kill yourself, my man.

>>14784474

Games of the current age are a service you pay for not a product you own, get with the times goy.

PUBG also has events, and the first thing people do when they end is demand they be made permanent, for the most part. 8-man squads and war mode were in hot demand, flare gun modes not so much.

>>14785647

>playing as a team was a limited time event

I cry for the children who weren't around when video games actually had options available to you.

>>14784446

<"They need to be limited time! It makes them special!"

<"Matchmaking would become a mess if they were permanent!"

These aren't wrong?

<"Let's have the Halloween specific event divide the playerbase up 24/7!"

>>14785659

By default PUBG has 4 man squads and duos always available, it's not just solo.

>>14784723

>>14784688

How is the remake series? I watched the first episode and it didn't really hook me.

>>14785651

Don't fucking remind me, the 2016 one was fucking age of sail warships against giant monsters as well, all that work, never to be seen again.

>>14785808

I've heard it's great, but I've only watched the first few minutes. I should probably watch the other two seasons of the original show first to be honest. and then the original Jap version

>>14784446

>this shit practice is now infecting the nips

I wouldn't really say it's new to them.

Just look at games like Animal Crossing and Splatoon. You play the game according to the game's schedule, not your own. The devs have their own idea of how and when you should play, and if you deviate from that then fuck you.

It was always a thing with nip devs that they know whats right, not the player. I never even thought about it until I read some Jap devs shittalking western devs for making gamemodes "always accessible."

If anything I would say the western devs have appropriated the Japanese style, but managed to do it as jewishly as possible. Adding game modes for a time, and then removing them permanently, is just a logical step forward on anti-consumer policy.

>>14785808

It's not really a remake, more a sequel, as it adds onto the original. It gets better in the later episodes once the Gamilas rebels show up.

>>14785920

I wouldn't really call it a sequel since it occurs in the same time-frame as the original and features the same characters and plot overall.

>>14784446

>Overwatch

>Lucioball, story missions, and more. Timelocked because the soyboys at Blizzard are braindead with making games, and also to push loot boxes.

It is mostly the later, and now they want to push overpriced skins with the excuse of donating to charity.

>>14784446

Never understood the point of making it limited. It's like some limited tastes of Coca-Cola or Pepsi: would it fucking hurt anyone to just keep producing it?

>>14787828

Is the usual way to increase sales, remember the BttF Pepsi bottle? same deal.

It's complete bullshit that companies can get away with stopping production of a game. I paid hundreds for my Jaguar brand new and they're just going to make the games for a limited time only? This is the most anti consumer crap I've dealt with in years.

>>14788385

oh and when they DO make a game, you know it's just to drive sales. fucking kikes.

>>14787809

There used to be great online only games. See >>14784761 for more.

>>14787887

I actually saw some of those at the store the other day.

>>14788493

Is it really online only if it has a bots mode?

>>14788691

I think they mean the multiplayer is online only in that you can't LAN, which is pretty fucking gay.

>>14784446

didn't post gw2 the first season and seasons eps you don't log in are pretty much you'll miss later seasons you get locked behind a gem pay wall.

while season 1 has very little added back via fractals

>>14784500

Yeah, ``limited``.

Like every other custom game mode.

>>14787809

>i am scared of real competition

soyblood

>>14784446

>normalfags have short attention span

>normalfag games have limited time gamemodes

Why is that to hard to understand?

>>14785270

I'd fuck the second and fourth twink.

>>14787887

I don't know how people can eat cereal. You'd have the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head every time you eat breakfast. Each day might be the day when your favorite cereal gets a new limited-time change that makes it twice as good. You get a couple weeks of bliss, and then they take it away from you for the rest of your life. What then? Buy more of the good stuff online for outrageous sums? Eventually the supply would run out. Just ignore it? You can't; you'd get slapped in the face with a reminder every single day when you have to eat the old, inferior version of the cereal.

Cereal is torture; anticipation of suffering, a brief moment of joy, and then a lifetime of suffering, all at the whims of some faceless, soulless, monolithic megacorp. It just doesn't seem worth it to me.

>>14797207

<he doesn't like redtexting

>>14806258

>using redtexting as if it were greentexting, just a colorful alternative

>>14806309

<kek

>>14797207

PD2 removed that though.

>>14807762

Originally yes, but now all the Halloween heists have been added permanently, even the lesser Safehouse Nightmare.

>>14785270

>Seventh Stand User protagonist options.jpg

>>14789538

>Riot Games would rather be Riot Game, they couldn't have that.

This pisses me so fucking much, even more than the limited gamemodes. They actually have some really cool design ideas that could be easily made into their own games.

Fuck I wouldn't even mind if they actually made it into an animated series or something, but no, fuck that, we have to make this one fucking game, just one game over and over again.

>>14784446

> Monster Hunter World is even doing this shit

this happened in freedom unite as well, there are plenty of missions locked to the Cloud(TM) and you can only ever download like 10 at a time

>>14811404

i have a 5bed 3bath house alone and do nothing but make art, i am glad that I did my own thing instead of trying to make people happy, fuck wagecuckery

>>14811691

Hey you know the deal with these free to plays. Why bother making new games when you can just make one that sustains you?

>>14785489

because after that initial spike of players less people are playing at any given time which is totally because they're leaving to never come back and not because of shorter game times letting you get your fill quicker

>>14797009

good cereal like honey bunches of oats and raisin bran are good vanilla. if you eat shit like lucky charms you deserve whatever comes to you, that is for adhd kids