Thebobo
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- Jun 19, 2006
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He's absolutely right.At first it was kinda funny, then it was kinda scary:
This guy makes it seem like gaming is entering some sort of dark era and we're in for years of nightmares.
I assumed pretty much all birds are fish finders. Well any birds that eat fish that is.Today I learned that Humminbird is a brand of fish finder.
Today I learned that Humminbird is a brand of fish finder.
God i hate bullfighting so much.
At first it was kinda funny, then it was kinda scary:
This guy makes it seem like gaming is entering some sort of dark era and we're in for years of nightmares.
It probably should be in the gaming forum, but to add a quick note, the whole point is that the game companies are exploiting mechanisms in our brains which entice us to use the option/pay for a loot box. It doesn't trigger in everyone, but it triggers in most (and even in those that don't, there's something else in the game that does). IMO personal accountability goes out the window when a company is using psychology to either trick or exploit a programming flaw in our brains.This topic should go into one of the gaming subforums, but I'm not sure I'm seeing the issue fully. If people are willing to buy these stupid loot boxes then the game companies will keep making them. I haven't seen one that effects a game enough for me to care, but I still feel there needs to be personal accountability upon the players. If they don't want loot boxes, dont' buy them.. if a game makes it pay to win, leave it on the desk and replay and older game. Expecting a company to not make as much money as it possibly milk out of it's consumers makes me wonder if people understand how capitalism works.
Like Vegas slot machines? Like super-market product arrangement? Like Sale Price? Like naked ladies in the ice?It probably should be in the gaming forum, but to add a quick note, the whole point is that the game companies are exploiting mechanisms in our brains which entice us to use the option/pay for a loot box. It doesn't trigger in everyone, but it triggers in most (and even in those that don't, there's something else in the game that does). IMO personal accountability goes out the window when a company is using psychology to either trick or exploit a programming flaw in our brains.
Yeah, pretty much.Like Vegas slot machines? Like super-market product arrangement? Like Sale Price? Like naked ladies in the ice?
