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The BBC catches up on what everyone has known for 10 years

It will probably take another 10 years for the mainstream to realise that what's truly addictive about many of these games is the tightly-controlled matchmaking system, it's the reason people get so invested in these games that they're willing to spend the money in the first place, the entire matchmaking system in most of these games is a carefully crafted loop of addictive incentives, every single aspect of it is designed to keep you playing and make you care about a dumbass Elo-flavoured carrot on a stick.

I don't think there'll ever be serious attention given to this though, it's easy to see there's a problem when an addiction involves money directly (not to mention more attractive to governments looking to extract fines from offenders), but it's not so easy for an outsider to see all the moving parts in a system that makes it so addictive that people will continue playing a game they basically hate just because of meta-incentives like ranks, levels and skins.

This is a barmy idea and would never happen but if you banned game companies from offering meta-progression elements (item unlocks, skins, ranking up) as a reward for playing only on first party servers I actually believe that much of this addiction stranglehold would evaporate. There's something extremely sinister about the same group controlling the fundamental characteristics of the game, the manner in which it is played, when rewards are distributed, and the rate at which the more desirable rewards will be given.

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install gentoo

GPT-3 let loose on tftv

play with these and test until your hitsound sounds the way you expect it to, from the video it sounds like the pitch is far below what it should be and it's causing that rumbling sound

watch how you talk about the man who solved the ubersaw conundrum

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It's remarkable how much cleaner and stylish this game was before valve spent a decade adding sprinkles to a cake they'd made perfectly the first time. The whole presentation of TF2 is so fucking LOUD now: The UI, the hats, the annoying looping taunts, the sheer density of audiovisual clutter is astounding. I miss the TF2 of 2007-2009 a lot, and it's actually weirdly heartwarming to see some people are still playing and enjoying a version of the game with the original style intact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA73fBSv-NU

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opinion discarded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pktMqkfvoBM

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genuinely good feature

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why would I not want to read everything the funniest poster on this site says

g'wan lad, hit us up then