Yes. But if they're predatory then they are abusing mental quirks. Similar to gambling there needs to be regulation. Especially on loot boxes and gatcha which are gambling.
It’s time for people to vote with their wallets and stop purchasing and playing games with predatory monetization models.
But saying that people complaining about MTX are like old man yelling at cloud is wrong. There will always be room for criticizing MTX like there will always be room for criticizing capitalism.
Neato@kbin.social 1 year ago
comic_zalgo_sans@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re saying that like people haven’t been voting with their wallets all along. Huge amounts of companies aren’t going to design huge amounts of games around this style of payment if it didn’t work.
Besides, not spending on a thing isn’t a “no/negative vote”, it’s just not counted because there is no “no/negative vote”, they do count “yes votes” those that are spending on something. You can’t outvote them as that’s not how it’s measured.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I definitely agree with you on this. It’s possible to vote with your wallet and still lose the vote. But I simply mean to suggest that those of us who won’t stand for MTX filled games ought to embrace the games that don’t have them (or at least don’t compromise the experience for them) like god of war, or red dead 2 etc. and that we should reach back and find games that we missed and look to purchase and play those rather than get the latest full price games that are still filled with MTX