Comment on YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns"

• ericbomb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Very much so :( I’ve played some genuinely really fun games in the top list, but the instant you start playing you can feel what they are about.

  Like I’ve been playing Warhammer 40k Tacticus. It’s really cool!.. I’ll probably play it for another week or two at most. Every action I take brings up a suggestion for me to buy something. Everything requires energy. There are about 50 different currency types. I get alerts that I’ve completed quests… that I can’t turn in because they are quests only available if you buy the premium Battle pass. Or the ULTIMATE battle pass. Like you unlock a new character and instantly it pops up like “Congrats on your new character, would you like to spend $20 to level them up so they’re not useless?”

  It’s fun because I’m still unlocking more story content at a decent clip, but as soon as it’s a day between 20 second lore drops I’ll have to uninstall. Which sucks, because the game play is fun and interesting since it’s modeled after the mechanics of 40k with the customization of a video game.

  So yeah, very sad.

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  • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll probably play it for another week or two at most.

    I, too, can quit anytime I want.

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    • ericbomb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Haha good call out, but yeah I play this way on purpose and jump from freemium game to freemium game. I’ve gotten pretty good at jumping as soon as it feels like money is the only way to make progress, but to be clear I used to not be good at it and have wasted a few hundred dollars on stupid p2w games. I really want to try to stick to these nicer games now that I have a cool website to help me find them.

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