Horseshit. You are guided to value whatever worthless crap the game sells. If that’s the only way a game makes money - funneling you toward that is the only reason the game exists. That is what all systems exist for, and that is what the full might of developers’ manipulative rhetoric steers you toward.
All video games make you value arbitrary nonsense. That is what makes them games.
Every form of ‘it’s only X, it’s not as bad as Y’ is just willful ignorance toward how Y served the purpose of separating you from as much actual money as possible, and X has the exact same goal but a sharper razor.
Games cost money to develop. Unless a game is open-source, you either pay a fixed price initially, or have microtransactions. The problem is when they get greedy and do both / make it pay to win. Selling cosmetics does not affect gameplay, so I don’t mind them doing it.
Counterpoint: Cosmetics. Developers get more money, whales and streamers get to show off, and the rest of us can still play normally.
Horseshit. You are guided to value whatever worthless crap the game sells. If that’s the only way a game makes money - funneling you toward that is the only reason the game exists. That is what all systems exist for, and that is what the full might of developers’ manipulative rhetoric steers you toward.
All video games make you value arbitrary nonsense. That is what makes them games.
Every form of ‘it’s only X, it’s not as bad as Y’ is just willful ignorance toward how Y served the purpose of separating you from as much actual money as possible, and X has the exact same goal but a sharper razor.
Games cost money to develop. Unless a game is open-source, you either pay a fixed price initially, or have microtransactions. The problem is when they get greedy and do both / make it pay to win. Selling cosmetics does not affect gameplay, so I don’t mind them doing it.
Don’t bother, this guy is just absolutely out of touch and unhinged when it comes to games.