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meStevo

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It's addicting. I spent a lot of money on Marvel Strike Force. Shit is also why we have no quality Marvel games similar to Marvel Heroes anymore - mobile is printing money.
 
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Kharzette

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I think with the kids sometimes there is a popup in a game offering an item for sale or something. They don't even read it, just click the button that looks the most like a go-away button so they can get back to the gameplay. One of my nephews drained 100 from my brother's phone that way.
 
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pysek

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Oh right. The small transaction sizes makes a huge difference. I should see it as it’s happening in my own house. My son spent the last of his money that he had earned through various ways on robux. Didn’t hesitate to slap that $5 down. Just insane that it’s bigger than both other gaming markets combined but with the audience size it makes sense.
I'll not admit the amount of birthday money my kid has blown on roblox. If I didn't expect an American economic collapse in the very near future, I'd be concerned.
 

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Yea, my kids are always wanting money for Roblox. It's crazy to me and of course trying to explain it's a waste of money to a 9 year old goes no where. My wife fell down the mobile game rabbit hole a few months back. She started playing a house decorating game. Well she wanted the nicer furniture and started dropping a dollar or two on pieces of furniture. Well, it got worse because she started losing count on how much she was spending. In one month it was $200 on pixel furniture and she had no idea she had spent that much. Mobile games are predatory and the fact they are designed around making you spend money to play should not be categorized as a "game"
 
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Daidraco

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Somehow my mother got tied up in a high tier guild in Rise of Empires. I didnt know anything about it until Im out with my parents and my Mom asked me to pay for something cause she forgot her cards. Later, my father told me he had to treat her like a child and cancel her bank cards and restrict access to the bank because of that game. If it had got that bad, she had to be in the retard league for pissing money away cause my father usually lets her buy whatever the fk she wants. Long story short, I'm not exactly sure she regrets spending the money which is kind of freaky.
 
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spronk

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thats pretty nuts, also weird that our parents were used to degeneracy involving drugs, alcohol, or hookers but now its basically "i'm a whale on a mobile game and i cant staaahp"

its really only going to get worse, tik tok really trains kids to have 8 second attention spans and be in the constant dopamine hit for new stuff, the MTX that comes along for the next generation is going to be insane in ways we can't even imagine
 

Fogel

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Somehow my mother got tied up in a high tier guild in Rise of Empires. I didnt know anything about it until Im out with my parents and my Mom asked me to pay for something cause she forgot her cards. Later, my father told me he had to treat her like a child and cancel her bank cards and restrict access to the bank because of that game. If it had got that bad, she had to be in the retard league for pissing money away cause my father usually lets her buy whatever the fk she wants. Long story short, I'm not exactly sure she regrets spending the money which is kind of freaky.
Did she have any world firsts though?
 
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mkopec

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thats pretty nuts, also weird that our parents were used to degeneracy involving drugs, alcohol, or hookers but now its basically "i'm a whale on a mobile game and i cant staaahp"

its really only going to get worse, tik tok really trains kids to have 8 second attention spans and be in the constant dopamine hit for new stuff, the MTX that comes along for the next generation is going to be insane in ways we can't even imagine
Like I said before, all these "mobile games" are is a digital interface to extract peoples money and they need to be strictly regulated. Not only that, but its reaching into the consoles and PC games as well.
 
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Mist

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they need to be strictly regulated.
Okay Karen.

But seriously, I do think that there should be a law that forces credit card companies to allow you to enable a global block for digital microtransactions, or add multi-factor authorization.
 

mkopec

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Yeah they do need to be regulated. Its like gambling, pure loot box RNG bullshit with low chances on getting digital items, and the beauty of all this is they dont even need to pay anything out if you do win. Its like a casino without any of the drawbacks.
 
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CaughtCross

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Kingdom Hearts IV trailer.




There is an AT-ST from Star Wars foot in the trailer. So Star Wars in the next Kingdom Hearts game.

 
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Big Phoenix

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sounds like the chrono chross remaster is an unmitigated disaster


Also a bit of censorship as well;

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Xexx

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When will they stop fuckin with shit and get me a Xenogears HD remaster???? F Xenosaga, just do Xenogears - such a gem! While doing that they can redo Parasyte Eve and not the shit tier sequels.
 
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