THE FINALS now appears to work on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux - eviltoast
  • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    That’s like saying ads are also fine if you don’t care about them. The design of F2P model games is to create an environment to encourage spending, it’s insidious and more deceptive than you’d think.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah it’s a shitty model, but i played countless hours spending not a dime in various games

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      10 months ago

      Pretty disingenuous to attribute this to every f2p game.

      Some developers don’t have money and wouldn’t be able to convince people to pay for their game right away.

      People buying those skins are also exactly whats funding those games to keep going and developing, league of legends would have run out of money YEARS ago if it dropped on a standard $60 model.

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        You do know that you can perform a subscription or donation based service, right? Free to play games with microtransaction models are designed to manipulate the player into gambling, they are glorified online casinos.