Young people when a game has "optional" micro transactions.
The moving color blocks don't seem so bad now do they.
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I know several boomers who have racked up thousands in credit card debt with microtransactions on "moving colorful blocks" mobile games.
Why do you think the middle agers don't blatantly fall for the same money grubbing tactics?
Some do, but I think most remember the time before they were invented, so they have different expectations from games that make them slightly less susceptible to them.
For my parents, it was Jewel Quest. I remember them spending most of their time at home playing that one game. It was ironic considering that my mom spent years warning us not to get addicted to videogames, lol.
Those games are engineered to be highly addictive, like casino slot machines. If we could already see the effects 30 years ago… imagine the addiction level they possess today.
Consider yourself lucky it was only Bejewelled; that they haven’t blown your entire inheritance on slot machines…[yet]
Lucky for me, nobody in my family has ever developed an addiction to gambling. My parents have always known it's a scam that only benefits the house, and they taught us as much.
Unlucky for me, my inheritance is nonexistent anyway, because my family has always been quite poor and they've spent the vast majority of their life paying off the debts they've acquired to raise us :D
Well that was a fun hour
I don't quite get why the combination of 16, 16 and 16 results in 32.
I have really been enjoying this. Thank you.
That's fantastic. Your game over share should share a link in addition to the image so it's like a challenge
We started this way back then... This is the earliest I can recall, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
None of the games that have mtx feel like a proper game. They all seem engineered to make you just have to buy that one thing to get past this boring part that you think is harder, but you're just being nerfed to convince you to buy the nerf removal.
Not one of them feel like an actual challenge built to make you use strategy. They just edge you until you splooge money at them.
Working as intended.
So is there some new game out?
Same game, stronger dopamine hit addiction.
I'm not even middle aged, but the only game I have installed on my phone is mahjong where you pull and discard colorful tiles
I feel attacked