Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is this is the reason why game companies are charging $70 and add microtransactions and battle passes to every game. If you’re shitting on it and still buying it, you’re part of the problem.
The big two are whales, which they actively target and exploit the addiction to the games, and kids. A surprisingly high amount of parents just leave their credit cards in the console and let the kids buy.
Funny, everything is about protect the kids now but nothing is being done about predatory micro transactions
I’m saddened by the phenomenon because there’s plenty of evidence that the audiences for these most of these games hate the experience, but they can’t stop playing because they’ve become victims of predatory psychological tactics designed to keep them addicted and their wallets wide open. These publishers and studios literally hire psychologists who specialize in generating this addiction, using models optimized to prey on their own users as much as humanly possible. It’s sickening. The sports games are especially shameless about this. Ruining people’s finances and their core sense of financial responsibility to fatten their pockets. I don’t know how they sleep at night. Sociopaths, the lot of them.
Proof or ban.
Cite something. If you are going to make outrageous claims like this at least drop an article
I’m sorry, I don’t follow. What did I say that would be considered an outrageous claim?
we only have a switch and a few ios games, we pay for game, play game. Check done.
Ilikepornaddict@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Best thing to do, is not buy the game at all. Whales don’t like spending money in empty games, they have no one to show off to. Simply avoiding the mtx isn’t good enough.