Thank god

  • Scrubbles
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    462 months ago

    Keeps users in their wallet garden. Marketers love shoving shit in users faces whenever they launch the game. Inside the game it’s bad for. To advertise whatever other garbage there is, on their launcher they try to grab your attention for their other crap

    • @[email protected]
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      152 months ago

      But see, that’s the thing. They’re just as capable of putting those ads in game too. I definitely would have more visibility on the ads just at the title screen than I would on a launcher I’m clicking through as fast as humanly possible.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 months ago

        Then they’d have to update the actual game, as opposed to just updating the launcher when a change needs to be made.

        Updating the launcher is quicker and cheaper.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        If they can convert purchase within their launcher, they don’t pay Steam their cut. That’s it.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 months ago

      …wallet garden? So…like a garden where they grow wallets for you to eat?

      I mean, if that’s in your taste palate, bone apple tea, I guess…

        • SharkAttak
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          112 months ago

          Now wait, it’s an interesting typo, the double meaning fits so well.

        • @[email protected]
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          82 months ago

          :D

          I knew what you meant. I was just really proud of tying it to “bone apple tea”.

          I’m only here to amuse myself.

          • @[email protected]
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            152 months ago

            We need a term for a Freudian slip caused by mobile autocorrect. Because “wallet garden” is extremely accurate, even if it’s not the intended word choice.