You can soon pay off in-game items in four installments.
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‘I was only endorsing what you’re condemning’ is a baffling sentiment.

A lot of what I think you’re talking about is based on player trading, is it not?

None.

… you know that cost is cumulative, yes? Games that somehow trick people into spending a thousand dollars a month don’t do it in one great lump.

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I’m not supporting what you’re condemning. I’m just arguing that it’s not 100% black and white. I disagree with “all live service games bad.” I certainly agree that some are predatory and a problem, and the entire genre as a whole needs much more regulation.

I couldn’t really grasp spending that amount of money on a video game, even cumulatively, so no I didn’t consider it from that angle.

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The regulation needed is: fuck all that.

Games make you value arbitrary nonsense. That is what makes them games. Attaching a dollar price to that fiction is a category error. The entire business model is an exploitation of that confusion.

This abuse is making games objectively worse. Maximum revenue comes from addiction and frustration. Fun is an obstacle. At best, fun is bait on the hook. The actual goal, especially for “free” games, is to grind you down as thoroughly as possible to extract real money over and over and over and over. If you don’t think that’s you - neither did most people who wondered where all their money went.

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