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Sounds like EA/Nintendo pricing has taken hold.

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[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To a layman like me the gameplay looks the same. Groups of 2-3 people exploring a large map for resources. Encountering other groups and looting on the way. Extraction shooter to me just means more money on micro-transactions like bank slots.

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

It looks the same because you are more or less doing the same thing (looting and shooting) but the core motivation to do those things are very different. Battle royales are all about combat, everyone goes in with the sole purpose of winning (with some exceptions) and you win by beating the other teams. Extraction shooters "in theory" are about survival. You take your crap with you into a raid so you could find better crap to increase your chances of surviving a raid. But if you die you lose the crap you took in. Because the goal is survival extraction shooters don't have a sole focus on combat, but rather combat is a means to an end.