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Re:King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga – Trademark Trolls w... by fhd2 on Friday January 24, 2014 @10:27AM (#7115290)
Candy Crush, Farm Ville, most prominent examples of F2P are nothing short of gambling. Zynga (and I presume King as well) has large teams of psychologist focusing solely on making the game as addictive as possible and exploiting that addiction, i.e. making addicts pay.
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Re:King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga – Trademark Trolls w... by Karunamon on Friday January 24, 2014 @11:32AM (#7115731)
What are you talking about? There is no chance involved in most of the F2P games, without which there is no gambling. That's what the word means!

Candy Crush is ostensibly skill based, being a bejeweled-match-3 type game and Farmville and the like are based around time, not chance. (You get X actions per day, and can spend money to get more actions)

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Re:King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga – Trademark Trolls w... by eropple on Friday January 24, 2014 @01:06PM (#7116323)
Skill-based? Candy Crush is based on the whims of a random number generator. It's Puzzle Quest but the RNG costs you money.
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Re:King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga – Trademark Trolls w... by Karunamon on Friday January 24, 2014 @05:51PM (#7118748)
It does nothing of the sort. You are under no obligation to pay them for extra shots, and this thread is filled with people who haven't.
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