Wait did you get an invite to this,??
This video really opened my eyes to F2P manipulation and because of this I mostly avoid it now.
Wait did you get an invite to this,??
This video really opened my eyes to F2P manipulation and because of this I mostly avoid it now.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not that video specifically, but the others were along the same vein. They were all completely open about how they abused psychology to get people hooked, and spoke about players using dehumanizing terms like assets or cash cows. It was disgusting how shameless they were.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Wow and that was 15 years ago. Think of how much worse it has become now
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think it’s actually gotten much worse, it’s just slowly made its way out of mobile games and into regular gaming. A F2P gacha game on Android being scummy is nothing new, but an $80 (soon to be $90) AAA game double- and triple-dipping into your wallet with paid season passes and FOMO banners and all that other junk, plus adding in-game advertising? That’s still relatively new to consoles/PC and putting that crap in paid games represents a new level of greed.