You’re not going to out-compete the sociopaths if you’re a saint. That’s a reality.
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Ashtear@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoNewell also has overseen Valve as one of the pioneers of the most predatory monetization in the video game industry (lootboxes, etc.).
There are no saints at this level.
MagicShel@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
And in politics, too!
TheBat@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Bethesda used to be awesome. Until they popularized DLC
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 3 weeks 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
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Damning with faint praise.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
I mean, in some ways, yeah. In other ways, CS2 is entirely free to play, and the microtransactions fund that, like LoL.