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[-] Retrograde@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

ITT: Mental Gymnastics competition to see how well one can defend corporate greed

[-] redditsuckss@lemmy.ca 35 points 7 months ago

Nobody wants to admit they've been taken for a ride.

Mark Twain said it best: "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."

Useful idiot is the norm for this generation.

[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I'm years too late asking this because I get what it means, but what does ITT actually stand for?

[-] nom345@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago
[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Seems so obvious now. Thank you.

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

I dislike the microtransactions as well, but there's an insane amount of disinformation about them in these discussions.

Almost all of the items are easily obtainable in the game by just playing, so there's no gating of content behind the paywall. It being a single player game, there's also no competitive advantage to be gained by buying them for real money (or inversely lost out on by not buying them)

The whole discussion is blown widely out if proportion.

[-] BaskinRobbins@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

I view the mtx as basically paying for cheat codes. I'm not interested in using cheats but am opposed to companies trying to monetize them. It's straight up mobile game level of BS in a PC game. Tbh though, if the store button wasn't available in the main men, I wouldn't even know the mtx exist.

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