Two types that i know of:
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in-game live service bonus items rewarded for play time or achieving some kind of objectives.
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potential DLCs for a game that may or may not be made
Both can be scummy. The former can basically be a mobile pay to win scam that drains bank accounts, the latter can be a “we decided not to add any more content, so thanks for the money and goodbye sucker!” scam that overprices a game and underdelivers.
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
A tactic by big money hungry studios to get you paying every few months or weeks to get meaningless content in their games, plus access to new meaningless tasks to complete (often referred to as “dailies”) to give you a few more meaningless items in game, on top of attempting to addict you with said tasks to come back for more.
Wish I could paint it more positively, but the gaming industry is heading towards enshitification and this is a big part of it, extracting more money without providing much more content.
StinkyRedMan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How can the most upvoted reply be factually wrong. You are describing a battle pass. Season pass is a dlc bundle.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Depends on the game, though I’d more describe that as a battle pass than a season pass.