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Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release by goosedragons on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:08AM (#35914158)
IDK, mobile games don't tend to have a spending cap. On most PC/console releases the most you can spend on a game is few hundred for the game and all the DLC bought day 1 and usually goes down as time goes on. Mobile games will have one gem bundle or whatever that costs more than the complete package of a PC/console title. So you can easily get whales spending thousands on one game. The financials tell me mobile games are better at extracting money from their audience or a subset rather but that's kind of how they feel to play! Everything is geared towards extracting money.
Re:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release by Scaevolus on Friday May 12, 2023 @08:09AM (#35915020)
Optimizing for microtransactions isn't free either! The devs increase discomfort and grind to encourage paying extra, making games worse for effectively all players-- in time or money.