Ian Boudreau
ryan cooper"It’s not a coincidence that true works of art like Return of the Obra Dinn, Spec Ops: The Line, Outer Wilds, and Valiant Hearts: The Great War are sold as one-time purchases, instead of as endless, deliberately addicting grind-a-thons that try to colonize as much of your free time as possible."
Alon@ryanlcooper Wait, some classic JRPGs make you grind. Or do you mean specifically the pricing model? Because there was some predatory pricing for Sierra classics: make the quests depend on impossibly hard leaps of logic or chase for pixels, then run a 900 number where people can ask the devs for a walkthrough.
@Alon I mean the pricing model. and yeah it's nothing that new in terms of ideas, but the implementation with Fortnite is so much bigger and more sophisticated
m_ch@ryanlcooper Some of this stuff (such as the company closing your account if you dispute charges to bank) is standard shit for companies across the economy. Disney+ will probably do the same thing, and Netflix definitely will.
The members of Congress with enough awareness of the issues to regulate games are AOC and then who else. It's gonna be like social media regulation, a bunch of people who don't run their own accounts holding hearings on "shadowbans" and pretending they know what it means.