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Not to mention the scummy nature of how they entice users to pay to play, such as 'insert coin to continue playing' mechanism after you fail a board a few times
by lowmagnet 13y ago
Not to mention the scummy nature of how they entice users to pay to play, such as 'insert coin to continue playing' mechanism after you fail a board a few times.
Also offensive is the use of sound in these games to ratchet up excitement like a slot machine.
- huhtenberg 13y agoNot just sounds. It's every NLP trick across all fronts including crying icons and sad faces that only brighten up when you pay. ... all of which is easily defeated by setting date forward, likely meaning that they are making as much money from charging $0.99 for level batches (each of 20 stages to a total of 400+) as they do from selling in-game gimmicks. They just milk this puppy through every hole.
- omni 13y agoPretty much every video game from at least the last three decades has "[used] sound...to ratchet up excitement." I would hardly use the word "offensive" to describe this.
- saraid216 13y agoDon't forget every movie since the end of silent films. ...wait, no. Also silent films. Because orchestra.
- x0054 13y agoOr the endless Facebook spam!
- freyrs3 13y agoCompanies based entirely around building better Skinner boxes is a rather alarming phenomenon.