• tal@lemmy.today
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      2 days ago

      Why not just not play them if you don’t like them?

      I think that hunting games are not fun at all, but I can very easily address that by just not playing them, which avoids starting a fight with people who do like them. If I decided “I need to tell people to play games as I see best” and impose a ban, I’d be going out and starting a fight with people that just doesn’t need to happen.

      • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
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        54 minutes ago

        The problem here isn’t that the games are bad, it’s that people are being taken advantage off. A lot of effort goes into making these games as enticing to spend to spend money as possible, which leads to people spending more money on them than they can afford. Vulnerable people are being taken advantage off, and that’s not okay.

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        3 hours ago

        Personally I’m not a huge fan of slavery, so I don’t buy from companies who use it. Wanna guess how good this is at solving slavery?

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        2 days ago

        it’s gambling for children is why. While I can choose to not buy the MTX inside a game, children and some young adults are more vulnerable to psychologically manipulative dark patterns that have been designed to mimic addiction as closely as possible.

      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        Bu-si-ness mo-del.

        Not: genre. Not: content. Not: players. We are talking about corporations committing systemic abuse for profit.

        Abuse that’s gouging so hard, you might need FINANCING… to play a VIDEO GAME. How big a hint do you need that something has gone wrong?