@ChillDude69 to [email protected] • edit-211 months agoSometimes I forget they even allow this. Finish the fucking thing before adding extra shit. How can an unfinished thing even have extra shit?message-square213arrow-up1868file-text
arrow-up1868imageSometimes I forget they even allow this. Finish the fucking thing before adding extra shit. How can an unfinished thing even have extra shit?@ChillDude69 to [email protected] • edit-211 months agomessage-square213file-text
minus-square@ChillDude69OPlink5•11 months agoDid I mention the fact that you can pay thousands of real-world dollars for a not-real spaceship? Do you need any other fucking definition of a scam?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•11 months agoThat’s what’s called a microtransaction. Sure, the prices are insane, but that doesn’t make it a scam.
minus-squareAniki 🌱🌿linkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoMicro transactions in games are scams by default.
minus-squareAniki 🌱🌿linkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months ago noun - a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation If you design a game with psychologists to maximize serotonin hits instead of gameplay and then charge money to keep getting a hit is, by definition, a deceptive act, and ergo – scam.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•edit-211 months agoUsing that line of reasoning, any form of advertising can be considered a scam as well. There is no real deception involved here, it’s pretty clear what people are paying for.
minus-squareAniki 🌱🌿linkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months ago any form of advertising can be considered a scam as well. Oh baby now you’re getting on my wavelength and the depths I’ll go to avoid being advertised at.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•11 months agoYeah, advertising sucks, but you can’t just change the definition of a scam to fit your purposes.
How is it a scam?
Did I mention the fact that you can pay thousands of real-world dollars for a not-real spaceship?
Do you need any other fucking definition of a scam?
That’s what’s called a microtransaction. Sure, the prices are insane, but that doesn’t make it a scam.
Micro transactions in games are scams by default.
Not by definition, at least
If you design a game with psychologists to maximize serotonin hits instead of gameplay and then charge money to keep getting a hit is, by definition, a deceptive act, and ergo – scam.
Using that line of reasoning, any form of advertising can be considered a scam as well.
There is no real deception involved here, it’s pretty clear what people are paying for.
Oh baby now you’re getting on my wavelength and the depths I’ll go to avoid being advertised at.
Yeah, advertising sucks, but you can’t just change the definition of a scam to fit your purposes.