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      I feel at this point a lot of Gen Z isn’t even aware of some of those companies that ruined the MMO market.

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        Yes, exactly this. I have a 20-something friend I made through online games who was trying so hard to get me to install this, and he had never even heard of Nexon.

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        As a gen z myself, this isn’t universally true. Some of us were around when Maplestory was big and remember the shit show when they ruined it. Also rip combat arms

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    The monetization is weird and not cool.

    Still, it’s fairly neat and fun to play. It’s like a better Anthem without flying.

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      i tried it briefly yesterday and it was janky and took forever to load shaders with every region change

      how do they monetise?

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        You have to buy new character classes with premium currency, and they’re not what I would call “micro” transactions. Technically I guess you could earn them through play, but you’d have to willing to grind a lot.

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            Yeah, that seems to be what most people are saying.

            I’m not touching that game personally: I read their EULA and it includes the sale of analytics data to 3rd parties.

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              i guess in order to make this kind of game you have to be a parasite at heart. the ever increasing assholery drove me away from destiny eventually haha

              the community for that game was wild too, always defending yet another shameless money grab

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          The grind isn’t all that heavy for characters, you get a second one almost immediately and can get more just by reading where their parts drop. It’s faster than Warframe even