Path of Exile is the first one that comes to mind. It's entirely free but supported by Quality of Life and cosmetic microtransactions. However they don't push the mxtrans on you at all, and I'm pretty sure that all content is available in the game for free.
It's not free but Deep Rock Galactic has amazing reviews, can be bought on special for cheap, and is only about 3gb to download so it should run fine on an older PC!
Edit: I messed up the name of the first game, it's Path of Exile.
Thanks. So would an appropriate anaolgy be that of a video game software developer vs a publisher, eg publisher takes care of all of the public fronting, advertising, being the 'name' etc etc while the devs (crackers) are the ones doing the actual work on the product?
Na but that's the thing right, everyone in the pit/circle is there by choice, and most of the time if someone gets knocked down they get picked up by others.
If you really wanna check out some wild stuff, look up Obscene Extreme Festival, it's like Wacken but smaller. Everyone's just there for a good time aye.
It's gotta be 1) the positive energy it brings and 2) the people.
I've been in a few different scenes, and metal heads were the ones that didn't care what bands t-shirt you wore. If you were there for a good time so were they.
Point and case is Corpsegrinder, the vocalist of Cannibal Corpse. The dude plays skill tester arcade games while on tour and donates all the toys and stuff he wins to kids in need and posts about it on instagram.
I might be wrong but I think this issue is due to the fundamental way Lemmy works (separate instances) and I'm not sure it's possible for Sync or any Lemmy app to do what the user Lvxferre suggested, although it's a wonderfully elegant suggestion.
Absolutely filthy.