This is what happens when the race to the bottom goes too far. People start realising this sort of tactic makes more money than traditional sales, so people sta

This is what happens when the race to the bottom goes too far. People start realising this sort of tactic makes more money than traditional sales, so people start expecting all mobile games to be free with microtransactions and eventually you have an industry which is pretty much unsustainable in the long run. Still, it's not as bad as it could be, at least not in the US or Europe. If you think it's bad that people are encouraged to pay money for things in mobile games here, well, the 'kompu gacha' type stuff is another level of scary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWFvlBPnk4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOWFvlBPnk4 It's basically literal gambling in some areas. You don't pay for items or even advantages in game mechanics, you pay for the 'possibility' of getting characters and items. It's between 1 and 5 dollars for a roll of the dice, and the probability of getting a rare character can be less than 0.1%. There are stories of people spending thousands of dollars in a few hours playing these games in a livestream on Twitch or the likes... Fortunately, this isn't as common in most games on the US app store just yet.