• Switorik@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    I believe it’s called playing the game.

    When you start a racing game, do you start with the best cars unlocked or do you play the game to earn them? This is the same, you can do bounties by yourself with the arrow but it’s going to take much longer than doing high level bounties or other missions as part of a crew.

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      4 months ago

      Or you could play a game that’s not exclusively built around currently OP cash shop items (that get nerfed after the refund period is over).

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        I guess I played it differently than you.

        I played with a friend until I could afford my own ship with in game currency. Did whatever missions I enjoyed playing to the point they started paying out pretty good. Bought more ships with in game currency.

        I never cared about what is OP, but I also don’t care about pvp so there’s that.

        If you want to try any ship, either rent them, wait for ies or whatever its called, or ask random strangers.

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      4 months ago

      When you start a racing game, do you start with the best cars unlocked or do you play the game to earn them?

      Yes. Most racing games have an arcade/zero stakes mode were you can race with almost any game. The gated progression has been on a separate story/career mode since the early 2000s. Except, you know, on the scam live service AAA mtx whale hunting games.

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        Last nfs game I played, I started with a clunker and did missions to earn money to buy better cars.

        You know what, I’d prefer if they took the playing part out and just gave me everything so I can stare at my cars and be bored because there’s no progression.

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          Dude literally mentioned that racing games offer arcade (a number of things unlocked) and career (progression) as separate modes, dunno why you ignored it

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      Sure, but racing games simply gate your progression for gameplay purposes. Here I’m just working at a job to eventually be able to afford my own ship, and I already do that for a house in real life. The progression isn’t gated by game mechanics, it’s gated by landlordism and capitalism. If I wanted to work a space job I’d just go played eve.