The Bunny Queen of Final Fantasy XIV takes time away from her main game to talk about Stupid Irvine's latest predatory garbage.
Remember what I said yesterday about mainstream media shoving things into Normie faces? Get ready to watch it in action when this vampire software is launched.
The business model is the epitome of "Create the Problem, Sell the Solution". You always swiftly hit a wall whereby you have to spend ever-increasing amounts of real-life money to temporarily alleiviate the baked-in penalties and actually make substantive progress in a reasonable amount of time, and the worst games of this sort are deliberate designed to ensure that you are punished for not swiping your credit card somehow- and that's where the multi-player aspect comes in.
It's one thing if you're playing solo. You hit a wall, you can just grind out encounters or wait out by not playing and getting enough login bonuses to overcome it. You're on your own schedule and at your own pace. All this goes away in multiplayer. Now you're on Company Time, you're expected to meet a standard of acumen and performance, and if you don't you get punted to the curb and left behind- and if that multiplayer element is required to finish the game, you are fucked. Even the perception of this being the case is enough for that outcome to manifest, regardless of the reality.
This very element is what prompted FF14 boss Yoshi-P to begin changing the core content of that game to be entirely soloable. He, unlike far too many in the videogame business, thinks of audience goodwill as paramount because he's playing the long game- and that means loyal audiences, for they are reliable revenue streams, which is critical to MMORPGs.
Mobile Trash, on the other hand, is as close to a Crypto scam pump-and-dump as it gets. Hype things up, conceal Pay To Win scamming until after it's too late, then squeeze those paypigs until their bank accounts are dessicated husks.
Then aims this as youths and young adults, especially those who are bad with money management--typical Millenial bugmen--and you have a rapacious vampirism that no sensible and responsible authority would allow. Alas, we have no such thing in most of the world these days.
How bad it is? This bad.
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