[pharrington]

Here's my anecdote.

I tried playing Quake Champions, because I remember enjoying Quake 3 as a mid-to-late teenager, and on paper, that type of game should be incredibly up my alley. I found the experience of the initial load screen dumping you directly into the daily loot box screen so offputting that I actually couldn't even enjoy playing the game proper. The very act of just opening the game was so nakedly manipulative and felt so unfun that I simply uninstalled it; I just cannot be assed to expend the energy trying to ignore the loot box mechanics to play the game on it's own merits.

[AlwaysRock]

This. When I launch a game I want to play the game. I don't want to crawl through screens of advertising for loot boxes and daily deals. I understand if it's a MMO or something but why does firing up a basketball game now force me to navigate through loads of ad screens before I can ever play the game?

[georgeecollins]

I WONT BUY YOUR GAME!

- I wont buy your game unless you let me try a demo. (PC-CDROM days)

- I won't buy your game if the demo is too short.

- I won't buy your game if I played your demo for hours and now I am bored of it.

- I won't buy your game unless it has online multiplayer.

- I won't buy your game unless it has twenty hours of single player content.

- I won't buy your game if it has licensed content.

- I won't buy your game unless I can get it used. (Console days)

- I won't buy your game unless it has split screen mode (OK only dumb marketing people ever told me this)

- I won't buy your game if it has online content that can't be unlocked for free used.

- I won't buy your game if it doesn't have X players in multiplayer.

- I won't buy your game if it has paid dlc.

- I won't buy your game if it is free to play (so true).

I won't buy your game!

[al_chemist]

Those are valid reasons to not to buy a game. You sound offended by customers voicing their opinions what they want.

[georgeecollins]

I didn't mean to sound offended if I did. I was joking.

But I guess if I were trying to be more serious I would point out that people who develop games are extremely aware of the pain points of gamers.

[cevn]

Hope you can get past it. Quake Champions is a lot of fun. All the games have dumb loot boxes nowadays. At least Quake's are all aesthetic. More annoying is their gating of the champions behind huge amounts of "Favor", but that's f2p.