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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: deSelys on December 15, 2016, 06:10:36 AM
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It was a damned time sink, uh?
I'm an old school gamer, mostly on PC and PS4, and I don't fancy those 'casual' games on smartphones and tablets (with the exception of Angry Birds while I'm doing business in the bathroom...) so I wasn't really aware of this.
Well, the new generation of those 'casual' game are going for your wallet. Without any restraints. The following article was an eye opener for me:
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1762-5-reasons-i-lost-249000-iphone-game.html (http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1762-5-reasons-i-lost-249000-iphone-game.html)
Something to educate your kids / parents / loved ones about before they get hooked, imo.
Quote about the casual game talked about:
If you've watched television recently, you've probably noticed that Kate Upton's tits really want you to play a smartphone game called Game Of War: Fire Age. That ad campaign cost approximately 40 million dollars, or about 5 million more than the entire development cost of Borderlands 2.
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"5 Reasons I Lost $9,000 On An iPhone Game". Boo hoo. He didn't "lose" it. It didn't fall out of his pocket. He didn't bet it on a losing team.
He spent it.
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Filthy casuals.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/mobile-phones/thief-steals-6-million-from-employer-spends-134-million-on-inapp-purchases-for-mobile-game/news-story/abaa2ae0e877ba4927898ef6773b1eac?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark (http://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/mobile-phones/thief-steals-6-million-from-employer-spends-134-million-on-inapp-purchases-for-mobile-game/news-story/abaa2ae0e877ba4927898ef6773b1eac?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark)
Behold, folks. The saddest human.
Wiley.
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Yep, that's a personal issue, not any other one. I tried out the same game for a few weeks, but it was so utterly boring (like clash of clans) that I stopped playing. Didn't cost me a dime, except for some time that was going to be killed either way.
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Where have you been living for the last 6 years? This is so old news there's even been a southpark episode about it.
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What I always enjoy about this kind of posting's is how you instantly get lots of "oh boo hoo, cry me a river" kinds of responses. Maybe its not the same thing as putting nicotine in children's juice boxes but I don't think designing games to exploit human weakness to take peoples money, (weakness not distributed uniformly throughout the population,) is a neutral thing. Some people have gambling problems and you can decide that that is all their fault and that it is ok to design video poker machines using the best available science to encourage compulsive gambling but I don't think it is. I don't know if anybody has been ruined by some stupid phone game but I could see it, Exploiting the weak is lame. This raises the bigger question for me which is: just because you can take somebodies money is it moral to do so? I suppose its on a continuum, clearly committing a crime to get somebody's money is not generally moral. The problem is when it isn't a crime but almost seems like it should be. For instance usury, or the difference between gouging and a fair sale. It would be great if it were black and white, and maybe for a lot of people it is, but I don't see it that way. It kind of reminds me of the stories from decades ago about families losing thousands of dollars because of junior's 900 number habit.
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OGame is a game thats perfect for people that live on the computer and have no job or responsibilities. It gets to a point that you have to fleetssave everything and hope you get back home in time to get it and then resend it back out for 12-24 hours.
I will never play that again