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Mortal Kombat 1 Players Are Furious With Inclusion of Paid Fatalities (comicbook.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/games
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Mortal Kombat 1 players are finding themselves quite upset this week following the announcement that paid Fatalities will soon be coming to the popular fighting game. With the last few Mortal Kombat installments, NetherRealm Studios has added paid content that players can choose to purchase outside of the main game. Not only has this additional content taken the form of DLC fighters and story expansions, but an in-game storefront has also been established that gives players new cosmetic options for various characters. Now, with Mortal Kombat 1, NetherRealm is tucking exclusive Fatalities behind a paywall too, and it's not going over well with fans.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are 100% correct. The same is correct for social media and there are studies that indicate that social media is „trapping“ people through their mechanics, dark patterns and peer pressure.

I‘m still baffled that some people (on lemmy!) are not able to understand why big corpos=bad.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even fucking Mastodon implemented infinite scrolling. Shoved that right in there when Twitter caught fire - if there's an option to go back to what I signed up for, I have not found it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now I gotta ask: is that not how it was? I haven’t been a big twitter user ever.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It used to be cleanly paginated like mobile Twitter... back when mobile Twitter existed. You'd get 20 or 40 posts in a row, and then a Next link. Which I think was based on timestamps instead of being /page/2 nonsense, so reloading a tab would actually put you where you left off, instead of some arbitrary distance behind the eternal present.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Okay! That makes sense. I can see how this both improves the using experience for some but also makes it more addictive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's so bad about infinite scrolling pages?

[–] mindbleach 1 points 1 year ago

It's an antipattern. It prevents you from segmenting your time on a site, so you're more likely to just keep going, never recognizing it's been hours.

It's also dogshit for usability. Are you trying to catch up on some artist's comic? Have fun holding Page Down for half an hour. Hope the site doesn't reload whenever it feels like it.