• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    1 day ago

    I used to play black ops 1 a shitload. I was fresh out of highschool and it was my first online game after getting internet. I already liked FPS games and this was interactive FPS with actual skilled people instead of shitty bullet sponge bots.

    As for why people love them so much now? I have no idea. I’m sure I also wouldn’t have cared for them if I had played online games earlier in life.

    I’d much rather have a compelling story nowadays.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      People like them now because they are in the same situation you were when you liked them.

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        21 hours ago

        There didn’t used to be microtransactions. And now days there’s so many free options that paying for an annual title that has microtransactions seems a rip off in comparison because of the alternatives. And those alternatives have huge player bases.