The Play Store "Black Friday" sale page only has free to play games...? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 weeks ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/android

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How pathetic and lazy, google needs to be broken up and it's stranglehold on android (the most popular gaming system on the planet by far) stopped.

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[-] ub0x5jtk 1 points 20 hours ago

You realize the mobile gaming market is mostly micro transactions and it has nothing to do with Google? The same happened to the PC gaming over the last ten years. You can blame customers for their human nature of feeling good for beating their in-game enemies with money to compensate for their psychological deficiencies.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

I agree the dynamic you are describing is at play.

I also agree individual's are responsible for the actions.

but don't do the libertarian faceplant of then concluding that this is a purely individual problem that can't be understood in a systems thinking way where incentives to actors in a system can either be designed to excaberate tendencies and weaknesses or mitigate them

[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 23 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, but the microtransactions are 10% off.

[-] Welp_im_damned 7 points 3 weeks ago

Man that's kinda sad. But not surprising. The deals seem to be for 7x play points.

[-] daddy32@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Disgusting. But KotOR is on sale.

this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2024

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