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I want to shed light on a tactic that involves collecting data as you play, feeding this data into complex algorithms and models that then alter the rules of your game under the hood to optimize spending opportunities.

I want to shed light on a tactic that involves collecting data as you play, feeding this data into complex algorithms and models that then alter the rules of your game under the hood to optimize spending opportunities.

  • MudMan@fedia.io
    2·
    7 hours ago

    Man, you really should play the game if you’re trying to be mad about the additional content. It’s really good and it’s ten bucks on sale right now. Forty to get all the extra content. Well worth it.

    The stamps are mostly premium edition filler. There are hundreds in the base game and nobody is particularly mad at the three jpegs they try to sell for two bucks as a way to pretend they added two bucks of value to your premium bundle.

    The music pack is pretty solid, though. Lots of licensed anime music. Can’t argue with blasting out Solid State Scouter when playing with Bardock. Just… remember to disable it if you’re going to stream the game, you will get dinged for copyright infringement on Youtube. You want to get mad about something? How about selling people music as part of a game and then accusing them of infringement for streaming the game they paid for? How silly is that?

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      ‘I consider this game’s business model fundamentally intolerable, and its total price divorced from reality.’

      ‘So why aren’t you playing it?’

      You are not a serious person.

      • MudMan@fedia.io
        21·
        6 hours ago

        Who said “why aren’t you playing it”? I said you should play it. Very different things.

        I know why you’re not playing it. It’s because you’re a sourpuss that doesn’t like good games and does like being angry on the Internet.

        I’m saying you should change that and play good games. Don’t even need to spend hundreds on them. Just throw a tenner at them on sale, give them a look, maybe.

        Also, and I say this with utmost sincerity, I am not a serious person. Wish I was even less serious. I’m a bit too stiff for comfort, really.

          • MudMan@fedia.io
            2·
            5 hours ago

            You know the real problem with this conversation?

            It is not, and everything I said is sincere and honest.

            I mean, unless it’s a confession, which I guess I could believe.