The whales will buy it and satisfy the management who approved this piece of shit price
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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It's honestly sad. The whales are just a different form of gambling addicts, the wasted money isn't even a factor for some people.
I had a roommate who was absolutely a whale, and he would buy expensive skins in multiplayer games because they were expensive and he literally wanted to feel better than others who he thought couldn’t afford the skin. When in almost all situations it’s that they just weren’t idiots like him
Yeah your anecdote doesn't catch the vast majority of people that this shit exploits though. Seriously, blaming the whales isn't a useful argument to convince people this shit is cancer, it's just a oh we can't do anything about it cop-out.
How is this similar to gambling? I really do not see any parallels.
I guess they meant the addict part rather than the gambling part, unless this is some kind of loot-box situation
Oblivion's Horse Armor dlc has more worth than this
Oblivion's Horse Armor DLC also didn't cost more than Oblivion either.
You can get the whole MCC on sale for less...
Only legislation will fix this.
If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.
What kind of legislation, though? Loot boxes seem like an easy one to write: gambling is illegal already in a lot of places. When it's just exploitative greed, I'm not sure how it's technically so different from charging exorbitant rates for swag at a baseball game or something. Or charging a few thousand bucks for a purse at some high-end fashion retailer.
To be clear: I loathe the FOMO trends in game development, overpriced skins, micro/macro-transactions, and all the "credit/XP boosters" type bullshit. Turning money into ingame currencies to obfuscate actual prices, the general design of games frontloading fun and then squeezing dollars out of you to feel that same high again....I'm just skeptical that there's anything to do about it from a legal perspective that doesn't apply to most of the rest of the capitalist enterprises out there. Please though, I want to be wrong about this, so any examples of how to curb some of these excesses would be great.
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Why? Don't buy the armour. Let the whales pay to keep the lights on.
These things exist exactly because whales pay for it. Letting them keep whaling is not a solution nor a workaround, it's just being complacent to the issue.
You don't think game development catered specifically for whales is a problem?
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looks at final fantasy xiv's cash shop >.>
Or frankly any online game, live service or not.
This model is not new or unusual and these prices aren't out of line with industry comps.
I don't really like it, but it's barely news that game companies continue to adopt this monetization strategy.
Anime and mmos almost always seem to have their specific whales who WILL dress up their avatar.
Combined? 🫣😬
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