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submitted 1 year ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

I'll be doing a workshop in a few weeks, and I wanna raise awareness about predatory lootbox paytowin games. I wanna play live, an easy to start playing and understand game, that is so sneaky and predatory that some kid would very easily buy some microtransaction or lootbox without even realizing what they just did.

Basically I wanna play it like "Ohhh, look at this game, looks so fun, oh, what is this? more gems? lets see, Nooooo!!!!! I just bought a microtransaction, I won't be able to eat for a month"

Do you have some recommendation for that purpose?

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[-] 64bithero@mstdn.games 7 points 1 year ago
[-] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Cool, but they are heavy to install and I need an account (I never played Roblox or Fortnite before), and I want something simple and easy to install straight from play store, and that uses my saved card info from my google account.

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Why not a video of it instead? Easy, predictable, can use many games that way

[-] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Could be, I'll see.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

My wife made me play fornite with her - they are actually pretty generous with skins etc. If you buy a battle pass once, it's pretty easy to keep unlocking it in future seasons. Maybe that is predatory in some addictive way I guess.. but persoanlly after avoiding fornite for years, I was pleasantly surprised how they let you earn things.

this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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