Skate players were explicitly told map areas would not be “locked behind a paywall”

  • audaxdreik@pawb.social
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    12 hours ago

    Games are a modern media and I think suffer from a lot of modern engagement mechanics.

    We need to stop viewing them as a constant stream of “new content” and more as an established library.

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      Absolutely the problem. They’ve stopped trying to make fun and started trying to exploit psychological weaknesses and hijack our internal reward systems to rinse us of both time and money.

      Fun is no longer the driving factor, and it makes me feel not quite angry or nauseous, but somewhere around those emotions.

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        They’ve stopped trying to make fun and started trying to exploit psychological weaknesses and hijack our internal reward systems to rinse us of both time and money

        Exactly, and the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was pro microtransactions really tells you the kind of scum we’re dealing with here