I’m confused. I’ve played Genshin, and I don’t remember any sort of loot box system in the game. There’s a gacha system which seems to be what the article keeps referring to, but that’s very different from what I think the average user considers a “loot box”.
Sounds like it would run for president.
EDIT: I just remembered this is basically the plot to a Black Mirror episode.
Was kinda hoping for specs. I like the design upgrade, though.
How is that any more hidden? Unless you already know the subdomain in the first place, the domain doesn’t really make much difference.
RedNote is seeing the largest influx of new users right now. There’s a few other TikTok-like apps that are also seeing some bumps, but RedNote is soaring.
What’s to doubt? Open your app store and look at the current top app.
“Nobody I want to follow is using it.”
By and large, the average user is a content consumer, not a creator. The consumers want to go where the creators are, but the creators won’t go where there aren’t already consumers. This will always be the biggest problem for any Fediverse platform.
A crummy commercial?!
While this is a good move, I don’t think John Mastodon was making anywhere near the kind of money to turn into the next Musk or Zuck to begin with.
@[email protected] This seems like a reasonable instance for Fedia to block.
Nothing’s stopping you from just eating pizza for every meal.
Pizza in the mornin’, pizza in the evenin’, pizza at suppertime…
ZZZ is a master class in video game animation. It’s one of the most stylistic games I’ve played in years.
I feel like the difference is the loot “box”, itself. Granted, I’ve not played any loot box games since Team Fortress 2, but in that game the box was an actual inventory item you could store and open whenever you wanted, and those items would always be from the same pool.
With Genshin, you’re basically just pulling from a singular, infinite loot box that rotates its reward pool. So you can’t, as a player, decide to open a Year 1 item when it’s not in the current rotation.
It’s a small difference, but I feel like that’s why we have separate terminology for “gacha” and “loot box” games.