China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent. - eviltoast

These laws will ban rewards for spending money within a game for the first time, ban rewards for buying consecutive microtransactions, and ban rewards for daily log-ins.

  • yamanii@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    If there’s a behavior psychologist/researcher involved in the creation of a product, it’s evil, simple as. Those gacha games absolutely use them.

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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      11 months ago

      I think you could go two ways with that. The psychologist could be under a mandate to give feedback to ensure your game is not going to be an addiction or they could be under a mandate to make it as addictive as possible. The latter is way more likely but I wouldn’t totally rule out the value add of any psychologist to any game.