Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil?

• GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean their unwillingness to do anything about the market abuse and rampant child-gambling aside, the lootboxes for purely cosmetic items are one of the least predatory ways to do microtransactions. It’s not like EA where the only way to unlock entire characters in some games is to grind for hundreds of hours or pay, or like COD where they took the lootbox idea and made it actually affect (multiplayer) gameplay

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the least predatory ways to do microtransactions

    Damning with faint praise.

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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, in some ways, yeah. In other ways, CS2 is entirely free to play, and the microtransactions fund that, like LoL.

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• MagicShel@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’re not going to out-compete the sociopaths if you’re a saint. That’s a reality.

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  • beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And in politics, too!

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TBF to Valve, their lootboxes were limited to cosmetic items in a free to play multiplayer games. You can ignore those and it wouldn’t change the gameplay at all.

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bethesda used to be awesome. Until they popularized DLC

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