It's so obvious now that all this garbage polluting our games is only explained by greed. This is why it was so funny to see Ubisoft developers attempt to criticize Elden Ring only to get humiliated and then memed by even their own audience. Nobody gives a shit if we get Will Smith to play Tyrael in Diablo 4 Even in cases where it is true, it's because they squander development money on useless things like hiring Hollywood actors for mocap cameos. I think we all know the excuses we've been given in the past for the "rising complexity" of games is nonsense. The likes of Nintendo or FromSoftware are not indie companies. They make millions of dollars through the classical model of selling us a product with perhaps one or two expansions with sometimes literally zero microtransactions. The AAA games that aren't exploiting people are not a bunch of starving artists. This is the opposite of any 'honest capitalism' ideal and it's candidly shameless. These companies are just finding the best speedrun farming strats on people's wallets. The game development of their games is the real game. Then we have the likes of these gambling games that make no effort to pretend they're making a game. We have companies that balance their greed by also producing a genuinely good work of art. This is obviously dirty and unfettered greed with no other goals. However, I don't see how an evil that exploits the stupid is any less evil. People are foolish and fall for cheap tricks. You always need to purchase more to make use of the remainder, and every additional purchase leaves a new remainder. These games deliberately force you to over-buy currency for in-game products so that there is always some left over to make you feel like you're "wasting" any remainder you don't spend on another purchase. Sunk cost fallacy is a problem susceptible people need to be educated on to reliably prevent. Last updated at 14:00:17 UTC Weekly Help Desk RAGE Loot Thread Trade Thread
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