How to Avoid Predatory Monetization in Gaming

[@nkopanelesedilebona9227]

"My problem is that I just buy games that I want and then never get around to playing them. If I followed my own advice and bought games that I knew I was gonna play immediately, I would probably be a lot better off."

[@muizxmuiz]

I hope they gonna implement a new law on this kind of games in the future.

[@martymasar]

The interesting thing is that sometimes it is rationally BETTER FOR THE PLAYER TO SPEND MORE MONEY rather than less. For example, if an item requires 10 hours of grinding or can be bought for $10, and the player's salary is $10/hour, it may be more beneficial for the player to work 1 hour overtime and buy the item for $10, because that way it is equivalent to 1 hour of their live (instead of 10 hours by grinding), and thus they can spend the remaining 9 hours with their friends or family instead of unenjoyable grinding for that item. That is why it may actually be completely rational to spend even thousands of dollars on video games without it being an addictive behavior, because if the player is like a businessman or CEO who is earning hundreds of thousands of dollars, then the money they spend may be a better deal than if they had to spend their time on playing repetitive of unenjoyable parts of the game for the sake of grinding or such, because the value of their time in real world is much more than the cost of the in-game purchase. Therefore, it is not enough to only look at the amount of money spend, but also the value or time that the purchase can actually save for the player in the given context.

[@danishbutter1847]

This video is so needed in today's time.

[@Kaizen_]

fowarded this to my friend who randomly dropped 150 to gamble on an anime husbando the other day..

[@Elaini-Gaming]

I think mobile games do this kind of tactics a lot more, as in microtransactions in order to not lose or at least being slowed down. Desktop or console video games usually ask for larger sums for their expansions, but it has you covered for much longer periods so you don't have to repeat that payment monthly. They ask it maybe for every few years.

[@dirtywhitellama]

I avoid this in guild wars 2 by only rarely playing 🤔😅

[@AsuraPsych]

200 iq play, just never play video games 😅

[@lucianalfaro9170]

guid war 2 doesn't even have predatory moneization? Almost everything you can buy is cosmetic you can't be better by paying because the progression is horizontal. The only exception i can think of is dlc for more gameplay but they let you play a lot for free.

[@dirtywhitellama]

@@lucianalfaro9170 it isn't in the sense of needed for progression, no, but it does have an aspect of gambling to get some exclusive skins and things. I am actually pretty okay with their system though, with every gamble you get a currency that can usually eventually be traded in for what you really wanted, so even the misses aren't a total loss.

[@lucianalfaro9170]

@@dirtywhitellama oh I didn't know that because I never look at the store. I guess no game is perfect with predatory pracces nowadays.

[@Elodie_N_INTJ_Analyzes]

I stopped video games since 1 year. I played a lot since 2005. It was very rare I spend money on games. In Echo of Soul, there are upgrade on pratically everything : jewels, god stones, soul stones, pets, costumes, accessory. It's totally this, the upgrades, on the gears, jewels, stones... is the main thing who attract people to spend more. Money give you Power, but does it give you happiness and long term satisfaction ? Not sure. _Patience, time and energy : trying to get what we want for free. Discover, enjoy the game, improve little by little. _Spend money : get what you want now. But maybe not really appreciate the game anymore if you have already all the best items. I think spend (too much) money can kill the pleasure to play. When you finally got something you want, the feeling of satisfaction, excitement, desire is no longer here. Like in real life : _Spend money, get item for a temporary and surface happiness. _Spend no money : be happy with what we already have, on the long term.

[@Elodie_N_INTJ_Analyzes]

​@Shan Mao It remind me, when I was younger, my brother INTP played to a lot of various and great emulated games. I agree, fan versions of games can give better experience than the original, I already tested many fan versions of one game by the past. I generally stayed to only one game and explored it deeply.

[@courtjester3216]

0:30 Agreeable Gamma states "Let's not talk about disagreeable Gamma predatory strategies"

[@user-mb0vf0mk0s]

He is delta though

[@user-mb0vf0mk0s]

delta ENFP 3w4 so/sp 371 (SCOAI in Big Five) to be more precise. I'm gamma and believe me that Ni-Se perspective is foreign to him. Deltas as a quadra control Gammas with their Ne-. It has nothing to do with "agreeable" or "disagreeable". We have no Ne or Fe to care about it really, just free market.