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I fear it might be the other way around. The ingame rewards are real while the payout pretty much doesn't happen. It's a carrot on a stick, the donkey gets noth
by ponderings 3y ago
I fear it might be the other way around. The ingame rewards are real while the payout pretty much doesn't happen. It's a carrot on a stick, the donkey gets nothing. It seems to me that one can have a much greater sense of progress if there is actual progress.
- autoexec 3y agoThe ingame rewards are real only until the game goes dark, your device is no longer supported, or their servers shut down and suddenly you're left with nothing. At least real life gambling can leave you with something tangible.
- falcolas 3y agoRewards are also frequently devalued to push you into getting new rewards. Either by power creep in released rewards or active nerfing of existing rewards.
- doctorwho42 3y agoI think another aspect that my friends and I talk about, seeing the evolution of micro transactions over the past decade or two, is the fact that gambling or making transactions for what is essentially an artificially scarce thing that can be duplicated ad infinitum without much cost.