Comment on Meet the men hiding their FIFA Ultimate Team addiction from their families

• RealM@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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?

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  • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Gambling is fun. God forbid you enjoy games line MtG 🙄

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    • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Sucker plays game for 80 dollars and demands to pay more

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      • Pheonixdown@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Whales subsidize the cost of the game for everyone else. If there weren’t whales, the cost goes up for everyone or the product diminishes. Reality isn’t a magical realm where the company will not use ROI and net profit to determine what to make or how to price things, it’s all interrelated and you don’t get to hold everything else constant when asking for something to change.

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      “Opiods are fun. God forbid you enjoy some drugs line [sic] OxyContin 🙄”

      It’s not really nice to call an addiction “fun”. Especially if you were to ask an addict about that.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        The only people who are against drugs are people who’ve never done drugs and people who were really bad at doing drugs

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      • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I love me the occasional line of k of coke. Opioids aren’t really my thing though 🤷‍♂️

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• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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  • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Not this game in particular. I do gamble and live spending a few hundred every year.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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      • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        👌

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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      • LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        👌👍

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