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Former PlayStation boss says games are "seeing a collapse in creativity" as publishers spend more time asking "what's your monetization scheme?" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

It's an abuse of how games work and what games are.

Only legislation will fix this. If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.

[–] Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Exactly, the moment things cost real money in the game, the design of the game changes to increase likelihood of spending. Guild Wars 2 e.g. sells increased inventory space..and it fills your inventory with so many crap items that you'll constantly be managing your inventory without the extra space.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

And you'll get dick-riders going 'but inventory management is gameplay, like in survival horror!'

Okay. So why can you pay five actual dollars to play the game less?

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 month ago

At least you can improve inventory in-game (eg: do normal gameplay quest and crafting stuff to get bigger bags). Some monetization is cash or nothing.

Still bad when they make something annoying and then charge to fix it.

Guild wars 2 specifically has a surprising amount of quality of life stuff for free, but you can see places where "we can make money here" won out occasionally.