The spongebob game wasnt so bad. It had like a login bonus but it didnt seem to be too bad But once we got into the lego star wars game the f2p bullshit started. And oh god. This game clearly designed for kids had all the f2p bullshit. Login bonuses. Gridnyness. Multiple in game currencies. The daily/weekly ect missions. The unlockables
But god the racing game was even worse. 100000 things to unlock and basically nothing is by default basically. Sooooooooooo absurdly grindy. And most harrowing of all… i swear to god… 5 seperate in game currencies.
I want to reach out and scream to him “games werent always like this maaaaan”
I’m gonna teach my kids to pirate games
(controversial opinion) This is why I’m a fan of things like gamepass because it offers a different option for publishers to sell their game other than f2p, even though there’s still games on gamepass that have f2p microtransaction bullshit in them.
The game industry is so bad with this shit and desperately needs a big change. Hearing devs say that using things like gamepass allows them to design without f2p microtransactions made me hopeful, but I think a majority of games on the service have some kind of mtx or expansion that they’re selling still
Back in my day we had 1 coin, and nobody knew how to “spend it”.
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Eventually we found out 100 coins redeemed for a 1x1up, nowhere was this explained in the tutorial level.
Kids deserve better games
I’m 100% serious they also deserve their own safe places online and a bunch of other stuff they’ve lost thanks to the vice grip of big tech.
Honestly at this point it’s better to just buy them a PS4 and some old school kid games and remasters then have them accept this as a normal part of recreation. Like my weird paranoid theory is that all this f2p shit targeted at the young is to create a sense of acceptance towards extractive capital infesting every aspect of their daily lives, intentionally or not.
Yeah as I said elsewhere in the thread I wish I had the means to get him some better quality games that dont have this bullshit or at least only minimally do. So far the best solution that ive come up with thats realistic is showing him the old school stuff he can access on Switch online. But he’ll probably still just do that with me and keep doing Fornite on his own lol.
