Whales are the idiots who keep the Madden games alive.
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2024
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What the fuck did I just watch?
And where can I get more?
the guy's yt channel? https://www.youtube.com/@shapiro127/videos
although I wanted to go with my misrembered futurama quote "There aren't anymore. and there never will be anymore"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGeUfYusTf4&t=19s
but I remembered the quote wrong
Okay, as funny as it is, I don't think the people who are complaining are the ones who are actually purchasing. I am pretty sure that the people who are the majority spenders are not even aware of the hatred on the internet for microtransactions, or even if they are aware, they do not see it as worthwhile concern.
It is easy to get lost in the noise, as many things on internet, everything becomes an echo chamber. But in reality there are a lot of people who thinks it is justified. That somebody is asking for money to deliver a product or a service and they don't care how the equation of "what is worth what " is derived.
For them, its just inflation or expense to cover the cost (basically they take publishers counterpoint at face value, can't blame them honestly), and since it has become the norm, they have given up on taking a moral stance om this and following through
Or you can be the etherium guy: get pissy about in game horse armor and make a vehicle for even worse scams.
Are the whales the ones complaining? Because the whole concept of a whale is that they are the exception. The vast majority of players pay only the minimum amount or slightly more, but the whales dump so much money in that they are still worth more to the devs than the other 99% of players combined.
You're right. The definition of a whale includes that he has enough money to not complain about any price at all.
Except complaining is his kink... Then he gets double the satisfaction from his payments.
A whale doesn't need enough money not to complain. The tactics used to attract whales are meant to build or take advantage of addictions. When I was drinking I would regularly complain about the cost of alcohol yet still spend much more than I could afford on it
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Remember the Boycott for Call of Duty? And most of them were playing on Day 1.
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At this time I'd like to shill for Warframe.
The game is free. The battlepasses are free. The lootboxes are free. The ways you open those lootboxes are also free. The premium currency is a tradable item, so it is 100% viable to get it and buy premium shit without ever spending real money. Digital Extremes (the devs) once accidentally created a gambling machine (for pet cosmetics), and upon discovering what they did, removed it from the game and refunded everyone who spent money on it.
Warframe is the one game that I've spent more money on than any other game, I'm not biased, you're biased.
EDIT: I'm glad that people around here like warframe.
WF isn't pay to win.
Its pay to look fly.
I was playing the first descendant. They had free armor dye giveaways.
- can't use them unless you can a skin
- when you do use it then it's gone. Stuck on that character AND skin...
Fuck that game right there.
Color packs cost like $2.50 for a paintjob in TFD and that's like 5 colors.
Warframe has color themes with a full set of things like camo, smoke or sky. You unlock the pallete and you can reuse it everywhere in your account.
looking kickass does measurably increase my enjoyment with the game
I love warframe, but having to level every piece of gear up fills my brain with anxiety for some reason so I can't play it much. The combat loop is pure happy chemical.
there's so much that you can focus mostly on just gear you're interested in. mastering %100 of everything is just not a thing that is reasonable unless you want to sink all of your time forever. It also gets easier to start leveling new gear as you progress.
I come back every year or so and play for a month or two each time, still haven't spent money on it (but starting to think I should, to support the devs)
DE absolutely rules. In an era of constant enshittification, it's so nice to have a dev that is actively, constantly working to improve the player experience. From consistent bug fixes and engine optimizations, to little additions like reworks of old frames and new ways to interact with old content, to the massive story expansions like Whispers in the Walls and the upcoming 1999, it's just a great time to be a Warframe player.
remember when coptering was a thing and instead of just patching that bug they implemented a whole new movement system which includes bullet jumping? yeah, another dev would have just patched it out and give a middle finger to everyone who grew accustomed to that level of mobility.
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The biggest reason of why I struggle to get into any of the subscription-based games, because none of them are only subscription based, they charge you both for the game and the subscription afterward so you have both the price of the game plus any type of expansion packs plus the subscription cost monthly afterward and that's without including any of the microtransactions. I don't know why anyone plays them
Can't understand people who spend hundreds of dollars on virtual shit they don't even own, just a "licence" to rent it. Like how do you spend that much with almost nothing to show for it.
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