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- 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7643915
As always in capitalism, video games have largely deformed from an art form into just another means to generate profit for large corporations
- bdonvr ( @bdonvr@thelemmy.club ) 10•11 months ago
Unfortunately it’s not really a step by step guide
- CileTheSane ( @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ) 12•11 months ago
Step 1: Don’t purchase or play games with micro-transactions
- bdonvr ( @bdonvr@thelemmy.club ) 7•11 months ago
Alright coo- ah fuck they just updated it and now it has micro transactions.
- CileTheSane ( @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ) 2•11 months ago
Step 2: Don’t purchase micro-transactions (see step 1)
- MiddledAgedGuy ( @MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org ) 1•11 months ago
I was gonna come in with the obvious “see step 1” joke. But what if they added it to a game you paid for? That’d be some bullshit.
- bdonvr ( @bdonvr@thelemmy.club ) 1•11 months ago
That was the meaning I was going for. It has happened.
- pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) 6•11 months ago
Where I would love to see micro-transactions be a thing is news articles, videos, and other creative works. I’m happy to pay for someone’s work, especially if I’m not paying a bunch of overhead to some shitting credit card company. At the same time, I have no wish to pay for a $20 monthly subscription for the local newspaper in Middleofnowhere, Montana just so I can read one article.
- Kusimulkku ( @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ) 5•11 months ago
I think a lot of Eastern European socialist states had ton of bribes (or sometimes “gifts”) to get anything done, including in some places “gifts” to your doctor.
Unfortunately Marx didn’t eliminate all the micro transactions
- bdonvr ( @bdonvr@thelemmy.club ) 3•11 months ago
Is it like that in Cuba?
- Kusimulkku ( @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ) 3•11 months ago
I don’t know what’s their situation with corruption/bribery.
Are you asking rhetorically meaning they don’t or seriously asking? Because if you are asking I could try to look it up but don’t know offhand.
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ) 2•11 months ago
I don’t tend to trust anything I hear about Cuba tbh, one way or the other.
End the embargo and let’s see how things stack up.
- Kusimulkku ( @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months ago
We don’t have an embargo afaik
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ) 3•11 months ago
Of Cuba?
They are famously embargoed by America, except for food and medicine. Which is a pretty big deal, considering how important the US market is for any state in the American continents.
- Kusimulkku ( @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months ago
I’m not from America
- freijon ( @freijon@feddit.ch ) 3•11 months ago
The thing is: If everyone hated it, it would not work. But sadly it DOES work.
- Dr. Jenkem ( @DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube ) English9•11 months ago
Lootboxes are legalized gambling for minors. So yeah, no shit it works. Just because a thing is profitable doesn’t make it good. The opioid epidemic proved very profitable, but just like gambling for kids, doesn’t make it a thing we should accept or want for our society.
- freijon ( @freijon@feddit.ch ) 2•11 months ago
I did not say or try to imply that it’s good. I said sadly it works. With emphasis on SADLY.
- Dr. Jenkem ( @DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube ) English3•11 months ago
Fair enough, I’m certainly not about to disagree on the profitability of gambling (for the house specifically).
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- Blackmist ( @Blackmist@feddit.uk ) English2•11 months ago
Everyone gets a lootbox.
The lootbox contains one poor quality item.
You get it two years after launch.