Comment on Meet the men hiding their FIFA Ultimate Team addiction from their families
RealM@kbin.social 1 year agoHere'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 1 year ago
Gambling is fun. God forbid you enjoy games line MtG 🙄
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 1 year ago
Sucker plays game for 80 dollars and demands to pay more
Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 1 year 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.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 year ago
That doesn’t make any of this okay.
I’ve spent €45 for a Mario game yesterday. Last I’ve checked that game costs roughly the same for everyone (except understandable variations in regional pricing). Not €45 once for me and $2,000 per week for some guy with an addiction problem.
Yet that game was made, and thousands more that didn’t rely on gacha, lootboxes or whatever.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
you do realize you’re just saying that the predatory business has to be predatory otherwise they couldn’t operate their predatory business, right? It’s like a sheep defending wolves because if they didn’t eat sheep they wouldn’t be able to continue eating sheep.
Carighan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, whales subsidize the cost of a yacht for the CEO. The games could be paid just from the money you pay for them, if the companies weren’t continuously being siphoned off the top by C-suites and shareholders.
Carighan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not really nice to call an addiction “fun”. Especially if you were to ask an addict about that.
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The only people who are against drugs are people who’ve never done drugs and people who were really bad at doing drugs
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I love me the occasional line of k of coke. Opioids aren’t really my thing though 🤷♂️