Lemdro.id

1 point

7 months ago

So what if new movies need an anal probe? There’s lots of old movies.

This is a scam.

This is an abuse, for money. For a lot of money. It’s so profitable that “just don’t buy it!” was never going to work. This is the dominant strategy - it is infecting everything. Nothing inside a video game should ever cost real money, but every game that matters is liable to demand thousands of your actual dollars. ‘Just play Tetris lawl’ is an aggressive denial of a global problem.

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conciselyverbose@kbin.social

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0 points

7 months ago

There are plenty, plenty of games that “matter” that respect players and don’t rob them blind of their money or their time with arbitrary grind bullshit.

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1 point

7 months ago

And that makes the billion-dollar scam industry okay somehow.

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conciselyverbose@kbin.social

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0 points

7 months ago

I don’t think this monetization scheme is valid.

That doesn’t justify you fucking lying about it.

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1 point

7 months ago

“This is spreading to everything.” “It’s not in everything yet.”

Yeah. That’s what spreading means.

Do you think this problem vanishes if it only infects 90% of games? You gonna tut and scold over this growing abuse, which you acknowledge is an abuse, so long as there’s one game somewhere that didn’t choose an invalid money-sucking business model? “Lol?”

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conciselyverbose@kbin.social

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0 points

7 months ago

It’s not anywhere close to everything. There are far more quality games that don’t do anything like it than quality games that do. It’s primarily the same AAA shovelware that’s also terrible for 50 other disastrous design decisions and isn’t actually playable regardless of the business model.

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1 point

7 months ago

It’s spreading TO everything. Do you understand what that means? It does not mean “it’s in everything.” It means: it’s in a lot of things, and it’s coming to a lot more things. Potentially: all of them.

And again - if it’s not literally everything, does that make the problem go away? You, yourself, just now, said this business model is not valid. Why the fuck are you still defending its existence?

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