Bigred's Video Game Thread

[BananaStand]

Sure you can. You are led to believe one thing, and yet get another. They lied to you.

Fine. They hid their manipulation, and it was dishonest. If you feel that impacts their credibility in a negative way, you are entitled to form your opinion and guide your purchasing decisions as you see fit.

Personally, I just don't see it as a big deal.

And again, you are making a lot of fuss about XP etc. I still cannot believe you are this dense but you keep showing consistency in this regard. It's not about the XP level banana, it's about the lies, the deceipts, the conniving stunts in this damn game.

I can't believe this upsets you so much. The deception affects the game in the most minimal of ways. It's only a problem if it's your intention to grind short, low-difficulty tasks as a means to farm top-level rewards with the least amount of effort. In other words, it's only a problem if you're a deranged video-game addict who places real-world value on in-game accomplishments.

For anyone who enjoys the diversity and variety in the game, or seeks out the longest and most difficult challenges, the XP rewards are sufficient and satisfying.

And when the thing they are lying about is directly connected with in game purchases, it's not hard to connect the dots even for denser individuals.

Red Herring.

This is like saying that because Russia and Trump both wanted to take down Hillary, then they must have been working together. Things can be mutually exclusive.

I flat out refuse any line of thinking that suggests game developers are trying to annoy players into making micro-purchases. There is most definitely a financial downside to making a game that people find annoying.

It seems totally plausible to me that a game dependent on an active and thriving online community might tweak the underlying mechanisms of the game so that frequent and long-session customers are rewarded more than a casual player, or one who simply seeks the most exploitative and self-indulgent path through the game's algorithms.

That certainly makes a lot more sense than an evil mastermind in a gray corporate tower conjuring up schemes and conspiracies to psychologically subjugate people into spending an extra $10