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[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 80 points 1 year ago

This is why I couldn't take the Ready Player One movie seriously. Gamers would've figured that shit out in a few hours

[-] simple@lemm.ee 50 points 1 year ago

Few hours? More like few seconds. I know it's a movie made for 13 year olds but if there were actually an MMO that basically every young adult was playing 24/7, they would figure out all the secrets in an instant. Have you SEEN how quickly people solve ARGs? Usually developers have to slowly drip information or else everyone will crack the extremely difficult hidden code within an hour or something.

[-] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Seriously, we have people beating Dark Souls with a guitar hero controller and running a game for over a month to make it crash, hard to believe people hadn't figured out how to clip through the course entirely.

[-] legion02@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Oasis as a game kinda discouraged this thought process because the stakes were real-world, not purely virtual.

[-] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But almost everyone died when doing that race. Not one person thought "forwards isn't working for the thousand time. Maybe backwards?"

[-] Acters@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

People would have already become desensitized to the "real world" consequences because participating would have already been introducing a consequence that has overtime seemingly has become too unlikely to avoid. People would have started throwing out ideas, shotgun style, and the wildestest ideas, such as trying driving backward. If people would do it in Mario Kart 64, then why not in a high stakes game where there is a huge financial/influential incentive? Movie did the dumb thing and got greedy with product placement galore instead of following the book.

[-] Decipher0771@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

The movie was disappointing garbage.

The book was alright.

this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2023
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