[a character is tied to a wall above flames, with weird twirly smoke tentacles in the background] Being trapped in the Torment Nexus is NOT fun
[a character gives a press conference at a lectern] We've listened to user feedback, Torment Nexus 2 will have microtransactions and will be a monthly subscription
https://thebad.website/comic/we_are_deeply_committed_to_listening_to_our_customers_feedback
Listening, then doing the opposite.
How so? All the tormented person has to do is to stop paying and they are free, sounds like actually solving their problem.
thats why they make sure that living outside the torment nexus is even worse.
For instance, thanks to the fact that I don't have a Facebook, I have very little access to being able to sell bits and bobs that I want to get rid of, or to communicate with distant friends, or update people on the comings and goings of my life, unless I give them a call and talk to them.
Not supporting Facebook has cost me a significant slice of my actual social life. It has hampered my ability to be in the loop and to communicate with my own family.
And it's not because I suddenly started doing something that anyone disapproved of.
It's simply that I'm not at the place, I'm not at the social hearth that everyone else is huddling around.
It's like leaving your phone at home every day. You only get to talk to and interact with the people you meet face to face.
On the plus side, when you do meet someone face to face, you actually have something to talk about (because you haven't seen it all already)
That doesn't help. I was a know it all before we had ubiquitous internet.
I was bored in school, so I read encyclopedias to fill the time.
i mean you haven't seen all the details of their life on a fucking facebook, so you can actually ask "what have you been up to recently?" and go from there. i suspect encyclopedias do not cover that.
The whole joke of the meme was that the customers clearly want one thing, but the torment nexus company doesn't implement user feedback while claiming to listen to it, implying they aren't listening to user feedback but do what they want.
I insinuated that they are listening but are purposely implementing the opposite of what the users want.
One thing that really doesn't factor into the joke of the meme or my response to it at all was whether the user of the torment nexus has the option to just quit using the torment nexus or not. It really has nothing to do with the joke or my response.
The thing is in most cases they aren't doing the opposite of what users want. A disappointing high number of users are perfectly fine with subscriptions and microtransactions. The most popular games are all riddled with that shit.
I'm not sure if "being fine" and "falling into the trap" is the same thing.
Compare e.g. sticker price vs micro transactions. Selling a game on Android for €5 is really hard. Most people won't accept spending that much money on a game from the app store (even though €5 is ridiculously low for a game in any other context).
But when in-game, the games use huge amounts of psychological tricks to get you to pay more, and people fall prey to that.
I don't think it's much of a concious choice for most people, tbh.
That's basically what EA did to the Skate franchise.
Here are the original developers, we hear you, our main priority is feedback from players.
Here is a fortnite looking ass barebone game where micro transactions IS the game. You're welcome