The moment I embraced easy mode was when Assassin's Creed Odyssey was like: "Is the gameplay we designed for our single player game too tedious? Then buy some legendary items with IRL money or maybe our XP cheat!"

[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I hate that games started designing around microtransactions. Like who thought "hey let's take the worst parts of MMOs and put them into single player". I loved AC origins and was so looking forward to odyssey and then I just bounced off it within a few hours because so much of it just felt like doing chores.

[–] Hazmatastic@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Everyone who looked at how much money WoW was pulling in without having to churn out game after game and figured out why

[–] noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

The suits did. You know, so the line goes up. Because we're all gonna die otherwise or something.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

Extra bonus: Odyssey was supposed to feature a female lead, rather than the choice, but a misogynistic Ubisoft exec vetoed it, which I can only assume was reason for the absolutely garbage dialog.