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Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset (www.gamespot.com)

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

yep. Never underestimate how stupid the average gamer is.

Then realize half of them are even dumber than that.

Which is why gaming is in the state it is right now, cause a bunch of drooling mouth breathers keep throwing their wallets at problems because god forbid they do without or make a single sacrifice.

[-] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Except it's even worse than that. Because these companies hired psychologists to tell them exactly how to tweak the levers in people's brains to get them to pay.

So you have the stupid people, but also the people whose brains are naturally wired to be played like a fiddle by these companies, and then on top of that, you have the new generation of gamers who have simply never known a world where you didn't pay for skins.

But it's okay, "because it's just cosmetics."

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Except it’s even worse than that. Because these companies hired psychologists to tell them exactly how to tweak the levers in people’s brains to get them to pay.

Which is where the whole concept of using real money, to buy fake money (and never in the exact amounts that they charge for items), so you obfuscate the actual cost, especially once people start carrying a balance of fake money due to never being able to get the exact amount of fake money for the item came from.