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uk Free advice I played Valorant on PlayStation 5 at the weekend. I want that time back. That may be the most bland and generic video game I’ve ever played.
I’m assuming its success is based purely on the fact that it’s free but even so, surely people have better things to do with their time than that? The rise of free-to-play games worries me on several levels but mostly just the fact that they’re so unoriginal. They’re all just copies of something else, and the quality of the games doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the success. I guess it’s because it’s really expensive to keep a live service game going (apparently that was the problem with Destiny 2 for Bungie) so they need to make sure it’s not going to put anyone off with something crazy like a new idea.
Valorant is just a bad game, with a dozen similar titles that are far better, but because it’s free it somehow gets a free pass. Not only that but it encourages other games to be just as bland and original, which we saw just recently with Concord and Marvel Rivals (yes, I know Concord isn’t free but it’s not full price either). Allegore Royal mix-up I don’t think I’ve ever gone from interested to appalled so quickly, as I did when reading that story about Xbox setting up a new t.