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        I’ll assume since I am someone else, but kernel level anti-cheat is basically Spyware, or at least a privacy concern.

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        Yep, the other two commenters summed it up well: I’d rather not have software for a game that I play running and phoning home every time I boot my computer (in other words, a rootkit). I also am a Linux user, so they just don’t work for me.

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    EA and Ubisoft, some kernel level anti cheat, and typically speaking, i dont enjoy games that have tower defense mechanics (and i hate when its shoehorned in, e.g Monster Hunter Rise). Korean MMOs. Mobas in general

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      Remember when all three of these companies used to be great 20 years ago? Such a shame how far they’ve fallen.

      I’m playing Beyond Good & Evil on GameCube for the first time, and this game is an absolute gem. Makes me miss how great Ubisoft used to be. They started turning into hostile trash somewhere around ten years ago.

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        Microsoft was always cold blooded, you probably just weren’t aware of it. Microsoft lost an anti-trust case and was almost broken up in 1998 for its practices, but appealed and came to an agreement with the government.

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          And they are doing the exact same thing with Edge that they were taken to court for over Windows Explorer. They have been and always will be a shit company.

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    Standard 3D shooter/War games like your Call of Duties, Battlefields, etc… It’s not that I’m a prude per se, I’ll happily play a single player campaign similar settings if they respect the material. Though I prefer science fiction where what I’m killing is aliens, or Fallout raiders and Super Mutants, or Zombies, etc…

    But (and this is MY OPINION only…I don’t judge anyone who feels differently) there’s something creepy and wrong about using very realistic modern-day set human-to-human war shooters when the end result is to tea-bag your friend when you kill him and have 13 year old kids calling out slurs in open chat. It just denigrates and cheapens a subject matter that I think should be treated with a lot more solemnity and respect.

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      As a teen, I was told that playing Mortal Kombat would turn me into a serial killer. Now, as an adult with kids (one of which is an adult) I’m happy to report that I’m probably one of the most docile people you’ll meet.

      (Unless someone seriously hurts my family and/or cats.)

      I used to have fun with Call of Duty, and I never saw it as “I am a soldier and I must kill these people.” Every game needs a theme, and that just happened to be it. I just saw it as a competition of dexterity and strategy. Whether it’s soldiers with guns or a yellow circle munching on ghosts, it’s all just tapping buttons at the right time.

      The reasons I quit playing CoD were because I got sick of buying the same game every year, and as I got older, I couldn’t keep up with the kids. During the 12-25 year old range, your reaction time is WAY better than any other time.

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        Oh no no. That’s not what I mean. Its not about that old chestnut of “It’ll make kids violent!” (It won’t)

        its just realistic, modern war games against realistic depictions of contemporary humans is just something that I find distasteful to be used as “goofy fun with friends”

        Its like playing paintball in a church.

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      Agree, the suspension of disbelief is important when your are emulating conflicts similar to the way that people do in meat space.

      Playing as a realisticly depicted person shooting another realisticly depicted person cant be good for your mental health.

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    Pay to win games or games with heavy focus on in game purchases. Having an in game store to supplement development costs? Cool no problems. 5 interactions to get into a game but 1 interaction to purchase something? No thanks.

    Not saying they can’t be fun. But not a practice I like to support if I can help it.

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      True, I had to spend money on some cosmetics on Injustice 2 once because that’s what Ed Boon wanted to put in his next DC fighting game that I read about which said he wanted to incorporate first-person shooter mechanics and trends into said game.

      The first Injustice had none of that besides the downloadable content.

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    99.999% of them. I don’t desire variety. Give me one good game and I’ll waste infinite hours with it for the next 15 years. The newest game I’ve played is from 2018

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      I’d love it you’d name a few. I like games you can get lost in for hours and always looking for others I may have missed.

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    Sports games, most racing games, JRPGs, fighting games, party games, MMOs, soulsborne type games, precision platformers, dating sim games. None of these are inherently bad, I’ve just learned that I don’t get much out of them.

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    All multiplayer games for over a decade

    People are assholes and I just wanna have fun