Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "How Businesses Get People Addicted (David Courtwright Interview)" video.
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Videogames are travelling down this road now. Aggressive monetization, microtransactions, predatory practices baked into the product. Games that you can spend a dollar here, two dollars there, spending real world money on in game upgrades, many of them temporary, advertised as "time savers," neglecting to mention that they're the ones wasting your time so you feel compelled to buy them. And, to cap it all off, they made sometimes thousands of dollars off of one player, and they refer to these habitual mass spenders as "whales." All of this on games you ALREADY had to spend $60 to get in the first place. Makes a man feel raped at the end.
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