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[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What's wrong with Fortnite?

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

It abused dark ux patterns to an extreme as well as engaging in a lot of psychological abuse to extort money from users.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 33 minutes ago

Yeeeeeh… more than most mobile games, which is quite insane!

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

So did Valve but apparently that's fine.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 33 minutes ago

I can’t disagree with you

But the degree to which they fuck(ed) with people’s minds is wildly different.