• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    “Protest”

    Y’all are still engaging with the game. Stop playing, stop paying. That’s all corporations actually care about.

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    5 months ago

    Do people protest brick and mortar stores for having high priced items or do they not buy the items / shop in other stores?

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    5 months ago

    Honestly I hate any game where the other team can just, arbitrarily decide “Nah you can’t play the character you like, fuck you” and it’s one of the innumerable reasons I don’t like League.

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    wow, i thought it would be a while before someone had the chutzpah to out-greed Battlestate Games. I definitely need to stop giving these corporations the benefit of the doubt. but of course, the culprit is Riot.

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    5 months ago

    Seems less like “protesting” and more like “fucking over other people in the game” to me, which sounds about right for the League of Legends player base.

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    5 months ago

    I feel like if anything has the right to be ridiculously expensive, it’s art.

    • It’s not a necessity for survival.
    • It’s not a necessity to live a fulfilling life.
    • There’s so much else available to us that can fulfill the same purpose that are cheap/free.
    • A one time $435 cost feels a lot more expensive than lots of small purchases adding up to the same amount, meaning this is more likely to be purchased exclusively by people who can actually afford it, unlike the latter which can trick people into spending more than they can afford.
    • It funds free entertainment for everyone who don’t have the ability to pay.

    What’s the downside?

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      What’s the downside?

      Customer manipulation.

      You could say “of course don’t affect me” to FOMO, p2w, whales, dark patterns and alike… but just because you personally ignore it, it doesn’t mean it’s going to vanish. Industries live and evolve through money, the next iteration of video gaming is made by where money went.

      LoL players came from a mod of Warcraft III; Riot is slowly cooking (put in warm-to-boil water) their frog customers in something people don’t consider healthy (generally with “they are them, not me, so I don’t care”).

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        Worse than what they’ve been doing for the last decade? It seems to me like this is a better state of things because it’s clearly a lot of money for one big purchase, so you know immediately that it’s not something you can afford. Better transparency, so less manipulative.

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          Worse than what they’ve been doing for the last decade? It seems to me like this is a better state of things because it’s clearly a lot of money for one big purchase, so you know immediately that it’s not something you can afford. Better transparency, so less manipulative.

          Clearly so it seems to you. There are companies that, more simply, don’t do this at all: they don’t need to be transparent on how dishonest they are… because they aren’t.

          If your argument “in secret they may be”… well, if your point is “entities that seems honest are the most secretly dishonest”, I think the first entity that we can apply your logic is your very self: you pretend to be honest in defend companies who behave transparently dishonest… it simply mean that you’re honesty is just a show off, while in truth you’re just shilling.

          That’s your logic: next time behave openly dishonest, so we know how much transparently dishonest you are.

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            I think I’m missing an important part of your argument here. What are they doing that you consider to be dishonest?

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              5 months ago

              F2P games target need big number of people, by necessity their biggest customer share is low-income people: proposing them luxury range product and peer-pressure (“to look good”) is what I call dishonest.