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(from the linked nypost article) > Over the month of July, George bought add-on boosters — starting with $1.99 red rings and moving up to $99.99 gold rings — t
by awinter-py 6y ago
(from the linked nypost article)
> Over the month of July, George bought add-on boosters — starting with $1.99 red rings and moving up to $99.99 gold rings — that allowed him to access new characters and more speed, spending hundreds of bucks at a time
oh to be a fly on the wall in the kickoff meeting where the gold ring was explained by the revenue team. I'll bet you a 99.99 gold ring that more than one person in the room was like wtf wtf wtf.
Not saying this is wrong or bad, certainly not saying this is illegal, but I certainly would think about my life choices were I in this room.
also better receipt technology would help with this, receipts are somehow in the stone age
- Bakary 6y agoIt's not qualitatively different from a software engineer spending their time helping a FAANG increase their hold over people's habits. It's just more explicit.
- awinter-py 6y agodifferent in that engagement patterns are developed by dopamine experts who know the deal, whereas the $99 ring is just dropped in the lap of someone who until that point has had the privilege of believing they're a good person
- Bakary 6y agoI would bet my life savings that most of the people concerned easily rationalized it, just like the FAANG engineers do it here along different arguments.