Comment on Meet the men hiding their FIFA Ultimate Team addiction from their families
brsrklf@jlai.lu 8 months ago
This stuff is why “it’s optional” and “it’s just cosmetic” are bullshit arguments.
If you can resist the urge, you’re not the intended target. They don’t make record profits from people who can spend somewhat rationally, they’re a drop in an ocean.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No fun unless everyone can handle their shit!
RealM@kbin.social 8 months ago
Here's a fun suggestion, how about you unlock the desired players by playing the game? Could even put it into an immersive context, you beat brazil and subsequently unlock their players for your team.
What's so fun about buying a chance to get your player? Is it possibly the shiny colors and the happy soundeffects that are specifically designed to make your brain addicted?
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Gambling is fun. God forbid you enjoy games line MtG 🙄
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 8 months ago
Sucker plays game for 80 dollars and demands to pay more
Carighan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s not really nice to call an addiction “fun”. Especially if you were to ask an addict about that.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 8 months ago
So, do you consider paying for more rolls part of the fun?
Because the rest, including the hit of endorphin you get for a stroke of luck, could very well exist without it. But of course on EA’s side getting people addicted has no point if they don’t pay virtually unlimited amounts of money for more.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not this game in particular. I do gamble and live spending a few hundred every year.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
okayh so you’re just scrambling to justify something thaṭ, deep down, you know is an addiction and not something good in your life.
Carighan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You do realize this whole thread and post is about gambling addiction yes? You’re essentially doing the “I have a black friend, I can’t be racist!” but for gambling addiction.