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Seems manipulative design to me. Yellow stars are already used heavily in apps for ratings, favoriting, marking as important. And previously as stickers of ap
by neilv 2y ago
Seems manipulative design to me.
Yellow stars are already used heavily in apps for ratings, favoriting, marking as important. And previously as stickers of approval on your childhood homework.
In the example animation of purchases, note all the exciting confetti and sunburst reward-like animations... for spending money.
Not only are they introducing a level of indirection over money (you're not spending real money, but some fun imaginary thing), but they're also appropriating and misusing a popular favorable symbol.
Just show what these things cost in familiar real money (or at least make it a stylized gold coin already), stop preying upon children, and stop manipulating adults.
- reaperducer 2y agoImagine a society where the big tech companies encouraged people to save money, act civilly, and be polite to one another. "You didn't spend real money on pretend things today. Here's some confetti!"
- nucleardog 2y ago> Just show what these things cost in familiar real money Which real money? US dollars? Canadian dollars? Australian dollars? App is by Russians so maybe rubles? But their offices are in UAE so maybe dirham? For a company looking to facilitate international transactions and storage of value… making their own “currency” actually doesn’t sound entirely unreasonable.
- neilv 2y agoReal money in the currency of the buyer, so they know how much it costs. Content can be priced manually by region and currency, falling back to current exchange rate to seller's selected currency. (Of course, more dynamic pricing is possible, but that also has its own ethical issues to be careful of.)
- LeafItAlone 2y agoSince most of the users can do the math in their head of what their star cost x number of stars, surely their application can?
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