How Free Games Trick You Into Spending Money
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You already know that modern games want to empty your wallet more than they want you to have fun. But why are these monetization tactics becoming more and more popular? The answer is more complicated than you think…
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They are invariably pay to lose…
Its hilarious 😅
Pay2Win and other free2play games are designed frustrating as possible, here is the real horror hidden.
Controversial opinion: privacy does not hurt good game sales. They only hurt games that are not priced correctly or do not have equal distribution.
I play JWTG. Its a pay to win game but i dont spend any money and my account is worth thousands
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most games are as preditory as payday loans
8:58 I like how you put "The Greatest Achievement of The West" G2 taking down SKT in 2019 of all clips here
Why not just make a game that is pay to play and leave it there no dlc, no micro-transaction so that players can get what they paid for.
that old doom btw isn't 3D, just a trick to look like 3D but in 2D, there's a video about how they did it
Even saving up money can't get me to spend a dime on a F2P games
Technically, arcades weren't pay to win but pay to play
Free to play games are just dumb especially when all progression is locked behind a pay wall
Combine p2w games with the new era of "normalized cheating" where hardware such as monitors are coming with built in AI tools to, for example, pick out enemy targets and highlight them automatically for you on the screen, or mechanical keyboards that allow you to press multiple inputs at the same time, and cheat bots and software galore, and the future of "mainstream gaming" looks very bleak indeed. This will be a win for these devs though because once the whales start using cheats against each other they'll be forced to spend even more money to keep winning.
Back then games were physical we had no digital?
Ever heard of bulletin boards?
Or like stardew valley that should have changed the industry,but all executive took from it was "people sure like cosy farm games let's milk that" not the "free updates and new content even after the game is top tier to begin with"
Jesus Christ dude at 10 minutes you mentioned the frog in hot water thing. WORST ANALOGY TO USE. People literally ALWAYS leave out the fact that for both experiments the scientist who did it removed the frogs brain. He was checking their muscle reflex. Not their mental abilities. A REGULAR frog does in fact jump out as the water gets hotter.
But i dont have money 💀
They can't trick me if I have no money
that's why piracy exists ! , to save our wallets
elsword mentioned
My country has the worst money in the world
A ps5 game is 2mil there
So we download the cracked games on pc
We don't pay for games 😂
ABI
Is literally F2P
Just get better, just because you have better movement than tarkov it doesnt mean you run around and trying to keep doing Pvp
You dont naturally heal
You need to waste 1-3 minuets to heal yourself
Its really that easy, just be paitent play it like tarkov be a rat no one cares its your choice or just dont play the game
Arknights
Literally F2P
Pay to play and pay to win is different.
The only good free game is outcore. It doesnt have microtransactions at all, so go play and enjoy it!
What's a good free to play game that isn't pay to win?
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