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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not referring to free games, but "free-to-play" games that monetize the playerbase with loot-boxes, battlepasses, confuse-opoly and "micro"transactions. More like league of legends, Fortnite and Diablo immortal than FOSS games, like minetest.

These explicitly prey on people with low-impulse control

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think the term is freemium.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nope, it's free-to-play

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

From the article you linked

There are several kinds of free-to-play business models. The most common is based on the freemium software model, in which users are granted access to a fully functional game but are incentivised to pay microtransactions to access additional content or more powerful in-game assets.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

Dude, the wikipedia-article is called Free-to-play. The preamble even says

This article is about the business model for video games. For business models other than for games, see Freemium