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atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I have literally played mobile games for decades and have never spent a dime on micro-transactions.

Meanwhile, I’ve spent thousands of dollars on full length games for PC and console. Sometimes handheld and mobile too.

So I got to wonder, why are all of you unable to just buy a mobile game outright?

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rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ah, the classic “world hunger is a myth, I have eaten today.”

I’m not saying there are not the rare gems in mobile games (just bought Don’t Starve on Android last month!), but like 99% of games for mobile are just s money making scheme using dark patterns to influence your brain to give them money.

And congrats on not spending on micro transactions! You do realize the world doesn’t revolve around how your perceive things, right? If young people are exposed to micro transactions like that, it alters their brains and not in a good way. And that’s science, there really isn’t much you can argue with.

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- atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You do realize that iOS alone has more paid premium games—without microtransactions—than the entire combined library of NES, SNES, N64, and GameCube, right?
  
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  - rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Cool, that’s why half the games you listed are just gambling machines in disguise?
    
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    atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You sure are obsessed with people having fun in only your proscribed manner.
    
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MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Because they all come with microtransaction stores, including sevwral of the ones you’re spwcifically lauding, ya numpty.

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- atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No, they don’t. It’s not hard to find premium, paid mobile games without microtransactions—I’ve already listed examples. And I’ve cited hard data: there are 14,139 such games on iOS alone.
  
  If you can’t find even one of them, the problem isn’t the platform. It’s that you’re not actually looking.
  
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  - pika@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    To be fair, the iOS app store will show the top 200 paid games, and that’s it. There are a bunch of categories for games, but ‘paid’ isn’t one of them; there is no other way to see or filter just paid games. It’s always sucked and Apple has never fixed it.
    
    I honestly don’t know how any developer is supposed to be successful on there with a paid game, because if it’s not already in the top 200 list, most people will never be able to see it in the store without specifically searching the name.
    
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