Comment on My mental health has improved after deleting games that have microtransactions in them
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 months agoI was just talking about farmville the other day, howbmassive it was. Feel like it was an early example of this
Comment on My mental health has improved after deleting games that have microtransactions in them
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 months agoI was just talking about farmville the other day, howbmassive it was. Feel like it was an early example of this
tburkhol@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My 80-year-old mother is stil hooked on Hay Day (2012 Farmville clone). She doesn’t alarm-clock overnight events any more, but that could be because she can’t sleep through the night now. Got a team of other old ladies around the world for contests, and it’s right on the edge of where I think it’s great that she’s got something to keep her engaged versus might need an addiction intervention.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I’m not usually one for those types of games but I had a lot of fun with the player economy of that game. You don’t even need to do any farming, there were always desperate players selling low ans buying high lol
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
WoW auction house feelings right there. Dunno how it is nowadays, but I remember that back on Battle for Azeroth, that was the only way to get the 5 million gold for a super exclusive mount