Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting::Video game addiction. Sigh. Big sigh, even. Like, the biggest of sighs. We’ve talked about claims that video game addiction is a documentable affliction in the past, as well as the pushback that claim has received from addiction experts, who have pointed out that much of this is being done to allow doctors to get…
I’m really just driving home your point here.
I played a lot of clash royale, which I loved, and people always whined about it being ptw. This is because you reach a certain point that is hard to pass with your current card levels, where your win loss ratio goes to 1-1. But what would happen is you would pay some money to upgrade your cards, and then you rise in the ranks a bit, and then right back to being at the point where you are at a 1-1 w/l ratio.
It was really just “pay to do the same thing at a higher rank.”
Yup. I don’t play Royale (and no longer Clans), but Clash of Clans was the game I had in mind for my example and it does pretty much the same thing. I got a pretty high town hall and IIRC never paid a dime, just years of grinding. It’s a game with a lot of fun mechanics, but the monetization has become unbearably annoying, intrusive, and manipulative. The last straw for me was when they fucked up the UI for no apparent reason.