Going through the absolute shit on offer currently it really is remarkable to me how backwards this industry has gotten. Micro-transactions were one thing but it looks like any kind of co-op game is just some god awful grind fest if it's free to play yet that's what the majority of the cons00mer types seem to be playing now.
At least Stardew Valley and Helldivers 2 can be called video games but honestly I tried PoE and it bored me to death not to mention the obvious trash FPS issues it seems to have right at the beginning. I'm going to just check out the Warframe gameplay rather than play it myself.
Even without the enemies having 500000 hitpoints it seems that matchmaking is often garbage in these games at the best of time which immediately gets me having flashbacks to GTA V and I go into a fetal position over that because rockstars matchmaking is truly awful. I don't think I could ever play co-op with people if they just quit halfway through and inevitably the instance ends right there so you're fucked and have to immediately jump to a queue only to have another twat abandon a game right after. So unless you can keep playing with people even after they leave or solo it that means the game is effectively unplayable.
Yep, offline or solo play only for me.
I do understand the business model behind it and everything so I'm not like these fuckers who keep spamming about making a game F2P and then inevitably complaining there are micro-transactions in it and yes these people exist. I just find it cheeky the level of disingenuousness when it comes to the overall discussion about the free to play model. I've come to expect it now, but it's just sad this is what most of the industry effort is on rather than making even vaguely acceptable singleplayer content that isn't just a shameless walking simulator with tacked on DLC crap.