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I think one reason people don't like it is because it's not "fair." Bunch of freeloaders get stuff, people with too much extra money get taken advantage of... W
by protonfish 11y ago
I think one reason people don't like it is because it's not "fair." Bunch of freeloaders get stuff, people with too much extra money get taken advantage of... We need to get over it. Paying-big-money-up-front is even less fair because you have to shell out cash for a game you may or may not like. Plus, you can only get people to buy games this way with a huge marketing budget.
It's strange that so people people whine about mobile games being freemium but nobody mentions League of Legends: A completely free PC game that has made an obscene amount of income on little more than avatar skins.
- chc 11y ago> It's strange that so people people whine about mobile games being freemium but nobody mentions League of Legends: A completely free PC game that has made an obscene amount of income on little more than avatar skins. You also have to buy characters. Like in many "free" games, you can earn currency to buy the characters through playing the game, but you get it very, very slowly. I'm still missing dozens of characters after four years, and that's even paying money for some of them (thanks to gift cards).
- maerF0x0 11y agoI call this a "grief" economy. The more grief you want to skip, the more expensive it is. The problem being that the maker is intentionally adding grief. To me that sounds annoying at best and malicious at worst.