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Chronicles of Elyria...Who falls for this predatory crap?
MightyUnclean
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According to this article, up to $3,500 for land in a game that's in internal pre-alpha and may never release. Truly predatory.
https://massivelyop.com/2019/12/18/chronicles-of-elyria-begins-putting-unclaimed-land-up-for-sale-for-a-limited-time/
https://massivelyop.com/2019/12/18/chronicles-of-elyria-begins-putting-unclaimed-land-up-for-sale-for-a-limited-time/
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Definition of predatory
In my opinion, this is intended to exploit others for personal gain, and not in a reasonable sense that reputable businesses gain from their customers.
I'll never support anything SBS does, but I will say that stuff like this wouldn't be as common as it is now if people didn't support it. So, sure trying to crack down on these things existing as an option is one approach, but who's to say the government just wouldn't go as far as China, where they limit how much you can spend on a game per week/month as well as how often you can game, so on and so forth.
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It speaks more about those who are concerned how others are spending their own money, that is indeed disturbed attitude in very heinous way.
If anything, they should increase their prices so people will avoid getting fat on burgers and fries.
I don’t think COE behaviour is predatory either.
Whoever has $10k to throw at a game can probably afford it... and people with mental issues don’t have that kind of money.
Should they spend that kind of money on a game?
Hell no.
Not because I give a shit how they spend their money, but because they ruin the game balance and the chances for the game to be somewhat successful (most players don’t like to play with the Whales as a matter of principle).
In the end it’s the Developers fault for not coming up with a more reasonable way of funding their game.
This will end up exactly like SotA.
No one gives a shit about how other people spend their money even if some of it is idiotic and totally laughable.
What people in this forum give a shit about is scammers casting a net to try to land those people who do spend their money idiotically and make a living at it.
More than once I've wondered if you even have a moral compass with your constant defense of any and all schemes to separate people from money from the mildly predatory to the outrageously so. Your credibility in these topics is zero because you defend them all as if you think that all ways of separating people from money are just as good as any other. Grats on thinking like a criminal.
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― CD PROJEKT RED
This is so obviously exploitation.... it's worse than selling loot boxes because at this stage you're paying for thin air that might turn into a dream at some point
If i sold an apple that will maybe or maybe not grow in 150 years but when it does it'll maybe be made out of gold... people would call it a scam... and that's exactly what they do
To me predatory practice is fostered by P2W, if you allow a game to be so dependant on P2W elements the opportunity and temptation are clearly greater for malpractice. That said this is down to the company, they are choosing to be as money grabbing as possible.
So many different things in this world prey on people. Yet I never see people kicking up a stink about those things. Yet suddenly this is a big deal? Very interesting.
I do think that is terrible that people spend their money so unwisely but we cannot do anything about it plus in the case of branded items it is a huge industry. Millions make their living off it.
People doing dumb shit with their money is neither new nor a big deal but that has never been a reason to think that the ones who profit from it are the good guys like he seems to think. Sleaze is sleaze and when it happens in something you care about, calling it out is never a bad thing.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Now we're adding financial exploitation, soaking people who are hooked on their games for huge sums of money. This, of course, makes a mockery of them as games - normal people will avoid anything where someone else can pay cash to beat you - particularly when paired with ganking the weak "game play." There is no other context in the gaming world where anyone sees this stuff as remotely OK.
I view this as pretty similar to drug addiction, and I have about as much sympathy at this point for MMO game designers who soak addicts for their money as I do for drug pushers. At this point, I'm in "call my lawmakers" mode to ban the worst tactics, make sure that children can't access them, and so on. I used to play MMOs like LOTRO and ESO that I now won't touch with a bargepole because of how they get their money. I cheerfully paid for subs, and buy the games that I use. But enough is enough.
I suspect people who genuinely have lots of extra money rarely spend much time criticizing others on how they spend money, nor are very concerned about what others think how they spend their own.
Though their is a certain subset, mostly nouveau riche who revel in showing off their wealth in a conspicuous, "look ma, I made it" manner.
I know it I came into a bunch o' money I sure wouldn't spend a moment worrying about what others thought of my plans to buy an island and begin work on bringing about total world domination.
Or was that destruction? No matter, either works for me.
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I spent $280 or so on 37 PS4 games during their sales this season, and plan to play every damn game, but that's just a silly amount for games that I already own on Steam or PS2/3....
I could've done a lot more than buy digital games with that money to help my common man.
But, I guess in a way, I am helping by keeping my grumpy ass off the streets...so who can say!?
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