>Implying arcades represent "The good old days" of gaming (Destiny)

by Revenant1988 , How do I forum?, Sunday, October 01, 2017, 11:03 (2690 days ago) @ CyberKN

There are so many holes in this analogy it makes my head spin.

As a kid with a very limited allowance, arcades SUCKED. I can count the number of times I got the opportunity to play an arcade game on one hand.

"This is a bad analogy because I personally didn't get to play a lot of arcade games!"

No, it's a bad analogy because it implies continuously pumping quarters into arcade machines is somehow the Superior Game Experience™

No it doesn't. It's being sarcastic, reminding folks that "micro transactions" are not new- they've been around for years (arcades were still popular until the N64\ps1 era of consoles, at least where I grew up).

Look, the "golden age" of gaming is going to be relative to each generation.

My dad thinks the golden age was Pac-man and Centipede.

For me, it was the end of N64 and early xbox (pre live).

For some kid younger than me, it's COD4.

For others, it's the advent of steam.

For others, it was Doom Share-ware.

In the end, ALL OF THESE PEOPLE payed money one way or the other into that ecosystem, be it $100 game cartridges (adjusting for inflation, some of those N64 games were hella expensive), rumble paks and expansion slots, controllers, memory cards, online subscriptions, a new video card, dial up or broadband, or quarters at the laundramat (or tokens at the putt-putt).

6 of 1, half-dozen of the other, dude.

There is definitely a WRONG way to do those transactions, but as long as it's limited to cosmetics, I don't consider it wrong.

I DO consider DLC that's already on the disc shady, but now games are mostly digital anyway so...... it's just dlc on a server you don't have access to yet :P

Eh. This topic isn't a big deal.