paulcdb

joined 2 years ago
[–] paulcdb 5 points 2 years ago

ad costs passed on in the form of higher product fees

This is what annoys me when people go on about ads making sites free.

Like the shitty uk government likes to say, it’s free at the point of use! but you still paid for it!

Even if you never buy the products advertised, no doubt the ad tax is slapped on every product that company sells. So you’re paying companies to advertise, then stalk you afterwards and yet people still don’t get why ads got so toxic now.

[–] paulcdb 4 points 2 years ago

You too can make games with loot boxes you buy just by looking at them! 🤦‍♂️😞

What could possibly go wrong? Apart from losing all your money to some really shitty scam because people really need to stop classing them as games!

[–] paulcdb 4 points 2 years ago

I’d prefer to see everyone joining up and striking.

Wages haven’t really gone up in years so they might give a little to a few workers now, but they’ll soon take it back at some point either through worse working conditions, or just plain ole sacking and hiring cheaper labour.

Sooner everyone gets together and truely fight for better wages, working conditions, etc. Sadly I doubt I’ll see anything improve in my lifetime! 😞

[–] paulcdb 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sadly the internet has been ruined to the point its now just 99% opinions!

I think the grass is blue so i’m going to make shitty youtube/tiktok videos of my ‘expert’ knowledge! Even worse are the idiots who vote the videos and comment how grateful they are… although who knows if thats people or bots anymore! 🤦‍♂️

I really want a internet that requires a ton of skills to access and isn’t a shithole of money grabbing idiots trying to game everything and shoving 3 million ads per second at you! 😞

[–] paulcdb 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and this is why I'll likely never buy another game from any company that uses microtransctions, in-app purchases, pay-to-win, rich idiots yacht fund, or whatever bs they call it these days... especially when these days they aren't even 'micro'!

I really don't get it though. in-game purchases make every game just awful and yet people are spending 1000's on them and it's like how does anyone how that kinda money to waste when if I had that kinda money I sure as hell wouldn't be wasting it on shitty pay-to-win game!

So hopefully if it turns out to be as shitty as people are starting to expect, how many people are still going to buy it..

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