Comment on US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas

• Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The games that appeal most to kids play upon their dopamine response and generate addictive patterns.

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  • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Correct, and if they didn’t have subscriptions, subscriptions wouldn’t be popular.

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Putting it like that makes it sound that this is incidental, but the conditioning techniques baked into the design of these games are included for the sake of selling battle passes and virtual items. If they didn’t have subscriptions and virtual currency, they would have been built entirely differently.

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      • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s because I am not speaking on the corporate point of view here, I am discussing the kids’. Every time I see this subject come up there seems to always be people who think that the move to subscriptions are due to a preference of access model upon the consumer, naively ruining their own capacity to own things, namely kids/young people, thinking it’s just the modern, and thus better, more convenient, way to go.

        Even the article’s headline is written in a manner that suggests that kids prefer the subscription model it’s self, not that they are choosing based on the game without thought to the access model.

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  • Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And target that critical mass where you don’t want to be the only kid that doesn’t have access to the game every other kid is playing.

    Not having cable TV growing up definitely caused me to be the odd man out on pop culture references. A lot.

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  • AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thats just most games though

    How did we think Arcades worked?

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    • Psychodelic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No you don’t understand! The kids are enjoying themselves when they play these veedeeyoo gaymz. It’s horrible!

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• Nacktmull@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did it never occur to you that this might not be just coincidence?

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  • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It did. I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying, or adding more to it than there is.

    Children do not desire subscriptions as a superior model to owning games. The model of access is not something they are comparing and contrasting. They are simply going for the games they prefer, which get locked be subscriptions. I never implied that games popular with kids aren’t intentionally put behind subscriptions, I was arguing that the subscription model isn’t actually preferred but kids.

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    • Nacktmull@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apologies, I obviously misunderstood your first comment.

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      • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s cool, happens

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• Astaroth@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How you worded this makes it seem like “if those games didn’t” refers to requiring subscriptions.

  I would suggest editing it to “If those games didn’t appeal to kids” or similar; if what you meant was that kids just plays what appeals to them, and those games “just happens” to be subscription games.

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