Dismissing? No.

Recognizing groupthink with the same tired talking points – with zero research or citations to back it up? Yeah, I call it out when I see it.

The funny thing is I’ve never defended “corporate garbage”. I’ve said there’s hundreds of thousands of games on mobile, many which you can buy outright – no microtransactions. There’s more premium, fully paid mobile titles than on NES, SNES, N64, and GC combined.

I repeat, you don’t have to play a gacha game. You can enjoy the many premium titles on iOS and Android if you so like.

But everyone here ignores that very real fact in favour of jumping on the groupthink bandwagon.

And yes, I know I’m convincing few people here because they’re all too busy socially signalling they are in the Lemmy in-group to actually consider anything diverging. Which is fine. I’m saying it out loud anyway to disrupt the echo chamber.

Well, there are literally people here who insist all mobile games are gacha. When I provide statistics that show otherwise, rather than changing your views, the reactions here are that I’m a secret shill peddling for a statistics company.

That’s the calibre of conversation I’m dealing with in this thread. And you’re no different.