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Comment by jwmoz | Hacker News Reader

I hate how games nowadays have credits and tokens and gambling things. Totally ruined the purity of games, I'm a millennial ex-gamer and recently got back into games via a PS5 and noticed how everything has changed now for the worst.

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It would be funny to take a stab at micro-transaction based classic games.

I mean chess, checkers, crazy-8's, uno, etc

(of course funny until it makes money and you follow l ron hubbard's course)

Elden ring

True. I did feel an actual sense of relief at like... you just buy the game, and you have the game, and you get what you paid for, and there's no manipulative BS trying to bilk even more money out of you. None of this "there's sooo much more available, but at a price, on top of what you already paid". Plus the game is just damn awesome outside of all that!

Agree to disagree maybe, but I'm happy that many games are free because of microtransactions.

Given how microtransactions are typically there to reduce time / grind, I'd hardly say they're free though. Time is money.

His argument is that games nowadays are devoid of depth and content outside thinly veiled addiction models with shinies. He's totally right about it.

Even competitive games are taking a turn for the worst with forced changes to the meta. It makes more money but it is an abusive addiction cycle of making someone's favorite thing broken but making someone else's favorite thing useless.

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