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Re:How Idle Heroes Made $100M in a Year by njarboe on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:20PM (#19844003)
This is sort of like what advertising does to people in real life.
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Re:How Idle Heroes Made $100M in a Year by el_dev_hell on Monday May 06, 2019 @06:34PM (#19844624)
No really.

An ad convincing me to try X energy drink at least results in me getting an energy drink.

Games like this are selling you on a worthless digital item.

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Re:How Idle Heroes Made $100M in a Year by njarboe on Monday May 06, 2019 @07:22PM (#19844931)
The idea is that advertising often gets people to buy things that are bad for them (like maybe an energy drink?) that takes up resources to produce. Maybe people buying virtual digital items is better for society than buying a brand new Corvette.
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