Dude needs to stop playing predatory gacha games.
I don’t understand people who WILLINGLY install that shit. They KNOW how they work and are monetized. And unlike gambling at a casino, there’s zero chance of you being up money at any point.
Huh, that sounds like shit. Why would anyone play that?
I know when Factorio introduced quality some people complained it was like gambling, but in Factorio its done at a level where probability just averages out. I want a rare shiny iron plate and 2% of the time I will get one. So if I make 25,000 iron plates per minute I will be getting 500 rare shiny plates a minute.
Why do people gamble? Because that’s what this is.
The companies don’t even care about the average player. They are trying to hook rich people with more money then sense, aka whales.
A long time ago the industry realized an extremely small percent blows way more money than all the others combined.
If you ever played a game with any kind of monitization and asked yourself why everything is $40 and how the average player can afford it, this is why.
EA’s Real Racing turned into this pay-to-play shit. I genuinely enjoyed that game back when it came out, then everything started to get monetized and you had to do various things fairly often if you wanted to make any sort of progress.
Why can’t I just have a fun realistic racing game that doesn’t try to cram “upgrades” that cost real money down my throat?
I grew up playing Gran Turismo 3, and that was an absolute blast - me and a Buddy had a Miata in the game that we both put a lot of time into, and it taught us about how car running worked (to a certain degree, anyway). My wife got me a PS5 when we were dating, and I immediately bought GTA7 at full price… Only to be met with an absolute assload of microtransactions.
It bothered me so much that I ended up going out and buying a PS2 off FB marketplace and dug out GTA3 from my parents’ collection of games.
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