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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

That's a big claim, that every free to play game is maliciously preying on people. Here are some counterexamples: Unciv, Minetest, Shattered Pixel Dungeon. I honestly would have expected to find more love and less hate for free games on a community that is usually such a FLOSS advocate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not referring to free games, but "free-to-play" games that monetize the playerbase with loot-boxes, battlepasses, confuse-opoly and "micro"transactions. More like league of legends, Fortnite and Diablo immortal than FOSS games, like minetest.

These explicitly prey on people with low-impulse control

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think the term is freemium.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nope, it's free-to-play

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

From the article you linked

There are several kinds of free-to-play business models. The most common is based on the freemium software model, in which users are granted access to a fully functional game but are incentivised to pay microtransactions to access additional content or more powerful in-game assets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Dude, the wikipedia-article is called Free-to-play. The preamble even says

This article is about the business model for video games. For business models other than for games, see Freemium

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I haven't seen any advertisements for those games, which i think op referred to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Oh, from what they said, it seemed like they were referring to the games themselves, rather than adverts about those games. But if they did mean the ads, then I agree, all ads are bad because they try to manipulate you to spend money - not just any specific ad or group of ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You know exactly what kind of games it meant.

If you want to turn this into a pedantic argument, I'll just point out that the word "every" was your addition.