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Now, let’s not get political on this one
But micro transactions becoming so “the norm” in god awful devs like Ubisoft has always irked me. I remember my first experience of them on the iPhone 3G on a game called World War. The game was obviously extremely popular because they spun up hundreds of them all exactly the same just with a different setting
They were turn based but it was timed by a few hours unless you bought in game credits to unlock the time limitation, and could buy energy, weapons upgrades and unlock levels.
This was around 2009 and the first experience I’d had of the iPhone with proper apps, plus online gameplay, I was SOOOO addicted to this thing for a good amount of time, I did pay once or twice to unlock the timer, but quickly realised it was largely pointless.
But these things were always targeting a specific group - kids. It’s predatory and nothing has changed on that other than it’s now targeting broader audiences
Like a lot of awful things in the modern world, becoming a good player reaching the leaderboard was not about how good you were, it was about how much money you could spend on it.
I’m all for proper laws concerning this.
But micro transactions becoming so “the norm” in god awful devs like Ubisoft has always irked me. I remember my first experience of them on the iPhone 3G on a game called World War. The game was obviously extremely popular because they spun up hundreds of them all exactly the same just with a different setting
They were turn based but it was timed by a few hours unless you bought in game credits to unlock the time limitation, and could buy energy, weapons upgrades and unlock levels.
This was around 2009 and the first experience I’d had of the iPhone with proper apps, plus online gameplay, I was SOOOO addicted to this thing for a good amount of time, I did pay once or twice to unlock the timer, but quickly realised it was largely pointless.
But these things were always targeting a specific group - kids. It’s predatory and nothing has changed on that other than it’s now targeting broader audiences
Like a lot of awful things in the modern world, becoming a good player reaching the leaderboard was not about how good you were, it was about how much money you could spend on it.
I’m all for proper laws concerning this.