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Exactly. They extract money by addicting people and taking advantage of them. It should be criminal.
by rtb 10y ago
Exactly. They extract money by addicting people and taking advantage of them. It should be criminal.
- mschuster91 10y agoWhile in general I support your opinion, there is one critical question: where should the line between legal and illegal be drawn? For example, consider DLCs, a form of IAP. In the Fallout universe, what you get as a DLC would in other franchises be an entire game... should this be made illegal too? In my opinion, not - but instead it should be made illegal to ship games with bus so serious it requires weeks of waiting for multi-GB patches so they're barely playable...
- Mithaldu 10y agoAlmost nobody thinks of DLC when they talk about F2P games, except for the people making decisions in the Google Play store dev while being clueless and divorced from the actual market. I think there's no need to worry about or bring that up.
- mschuster91 10y agoI'm not talking about a definition for nerds, I'm sure everyone on this forum knows the difference. I'm more after something that can be presented to a politician and be acted upon. And most politicians either have no clue or don't care about the difference between DLC and IAP, for them it's the same - you pay for "new" content in a computer game. Have enough voters complain to them and they'll cluelessly enact crap as laws.
- Mithaldu 10y agoI'm not sure if i disagree or not, but you're diving into a veritable pool of what-ifs there.
- Jonnax 10y agoWell what's getting quite popular these days is the concept of a "loot box" which is where you spend some real money to get a box of unknown items. When you open it you get a randomised, by whatever factors, set of items/powerups/whatevers. It adds a bit of a gambling aspect to it where a user might want to pay again to have another roll of the dice. That's pretty easy to distinguish