• Mugita Sokio@lemmy.today
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    15 hours ago

    Does it have an offline single-player or offline anything? If it doesn’t, that’s live service, that’s not a game… it’d instead be a subscription-based shooter movie that you just so happened to be the protagonist of.

    • That’s not what live service or Games As A Service means.

      It’s about continued, PAID FOR content being added to the game on a predetermined schedule, where old content is phased out and no longer obtainable.

      Often with two tiers of unlockables; one for regular/free players, and the other for premium/battlepass owners.

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        15 hours ago

        That’s called a dark pattern, which I don’t fall for all that often. I’d just take the F2P route, and I wouldn’t care if I missed out on something where I’d shell out real money for it.