• 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.

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      9 minutes 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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      1 day 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.

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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?