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penquin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yup. Yesterday, I was shocked to find out my favorite soccer game of all time PES was completely free of charge. It is now called “e-football”, but you guessed it, microtransactions everywhere. It did have a whole store for buying “coins”. Me being me, I’ve just been playing for free and having the time of my life 😂
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Until you hit the paywall. Which you will.
These games are made to let you play just long enough to get hooked and then tighten the grip slowly to get you to pay.
These aren’t games they are parasitic services.
penquin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’ll just stop playing it when it gets to that point. I have never and never will pay for a single microtransaction. Plus, I don’t really a lot of games anyway. I don’t even play daily. You know, life, work, kids and all that stuff. I can barely play a couple of hours a week anyway. :)
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good on you. Lots of people aren’t that strong and addictions are hard to kick.
Lootboxes have been marked as gambling for a reason.
penquin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Thank you :)
EatATaco@lemm.ee 1 year ago
While you’re right in some cases, many of these companies want lots of ftp players to keep the whales playing, as it gives them people to play against. Any empty game is no fun for anyone.
I stopped playing brawl stars maybe a year ago. That’s 4+ years of playing a game without spending a cent on it. It was a similar thing with clash royale and clash of clans. I never felt I hit a paywall. Pokemon go I still occasionally play, and never spent s dollar.
I agree that they are parasitic, as they take advantage of people without impulse control, but they’ve been great for me as I get access to high quality games without having to pay.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Have you heard of boiling frogs?
“The boiling frog story is generally offered as a metaphor cautioning people to be aware of even gradual change lest they suffer eventual undesirable consequences. It may be invoked in support of a slippery slope argument as a caution against creeping normality. It is also used in business to reinforce that change needs to be gradual to be accepted. The term “boiling frog syndrome” is a metaphor used to describe the failure to act against a problematic situation which will increase in severity until reaching catastrophic proportions. It thereby encapsulates the barely noticeable impact of slow environmental degradation that has been described by Daniel Pauly as shifting baselines.”
Case in point:
“It’s not so bad, they give me free stuff.”
They stop making regular games and everything is a live service.
“Thats cool, we still get to play for FREE if we prop up their revenue stream.”
Games get aggressive with charges and adds a hard paywall.
“Thats cool, at least long term fans are enjoying the gameplay they provide.”
They kill off the original in favour of marketing part 2 with more enshittification and half the content of the original missing.
“Oh…”
You are the boiling frog.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is such a weird response.
Your initial claim was that you will hit a paywall. I explained how I played multiple games for many years each where I didn’t hit a paywall.
Was that challenged or even acknowledged? No. All you did was move on to a hypothetical.
And the weirdest part about this hypothetical is that my post already kind of addresses it in the very first sentence: “many of these companies want lots of ftp players to keep the whales playing, as it gives them people to play against. Any empty game is no fun for anyone.”
Was this addressed or even acknowledged? No.
Maybe you’re right, but I question how much critical thought this was actually given when there was neither an admission that the original claim was wrong, nor even a mention of a point already made that totally undercuts the hypothetical.