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"oh it's anti-capitalist" IT'S LITERALLY RAPE SLAVERY SHUT THE FUCK UP YOUR PLANT PORN ISN'T DEEP

anyway affini get stomped by the infinite-willpower immortal super soldier space wizards with unlimited ammo fire guns, yes this is a spite match-up

legit who tf even is that i got this in my reccomended

i like to come up with silly guardian OCs, so here's [unnamed vanguard soldier] he loves the vanguard, he loves the city, he agrees with everything zavala says, and will ONLY use APPROVED ORANGE AND BLUE VANGUARD WEAPONRY (the sword is from fireteam ops and has the shader it counts)

to explain it simply, if you look at extraction shooters that is a genre where items are limited and all players are forced to compete and grind in a fake economy for fake items, where scarcity is entirely controlled by the devs.

in the marathon reboot you can earn and buy cosmetics like gun skins and stickers and charms... but here's a weird thing, these are kinda limited. if you equip a sticker on your SMG you can't equip it on your pistol unless you have two of that sticker.

no other game really does this and there's no reason to, you don't lose the sticker if you die and lose the item my theory is that this, and other AAA attempts at making an extraction shooter, are trying to normalize these systems so that they can then have you lose those cosmetics and need to regain them.

then if they sold those cosmetics for real money, or did the TF2/counter strike thing of letting YOU sell and buy to and from other players while the devs get a percentage of the sale then they've just gotten the infinite money glitch that major AAA gaming wants to desperately.

they can finally have you buy things you already own in the same game forever. they want to make ready player one real, even tho no one actually wants to experience that at all

it's all back around to the belief that they can make the ULTRA GAME that will make infinite money forever, and the idea that gamers will just enjoy that even if it isn't fun (look at how marathon is flopping)

that's also why they refuse to make it PVE focused even tho tarkov's PVE mode is hyper successful, they just don't understand what players want, AND think that PVP is an easy way to infinite content even tho people keep complaining about a lack of content in these types of games

it's like if they tried to make ARMA mainstream, it's an absolutely stupid idea unless you're a gaming executive who thinks its the key to infinite money