Re: Predatory Gaming Practices

On 6/26/2024 1:53 AM, Mandrake wrote:

Kyonshi wrote:

On 6/26/2024 4:33 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

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The blog post's headline is "Predatory Tactics In Gaming Are Worse
Than You Think".
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/predatory-tactics-in-gaming-are-worse-than-you-think
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And the article then straightforwardly follows up on that topic. If
you wanted to get an idea of some of the tactics used by game
developers -especially in the mobile arena- then this is a good primer
on the subject. I particularly enjoyed the bit where one developer
admitted that -through data-harvesting- they identified members of the
Saudi royal family and changed the MTX pricing /just for those users/
to over a hundred times what other people paid.

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that is an interesting way of price-gouging. I never thought about that, but it easily might be that with advanced techniques they can target rich people with higher prices and they will never notice.

 It's worse than price-gouging.  'Price-gouging' satisfies economic theory.  More along the lines of false advertising here.  Rich people will notice and then go commit suicide.

With the Saudi royal family they really won't _care_.  If you are going to spend 1.5 Trillion dollars to build a city in the middle of the desert what's a million or two on a phone game?
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