Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:20 AM
Wild that we live in a world where "this game is free" is a dead giveaway that you're looking at the most expensive kind of game in the world
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:21 AM
you can spend twenty thousand dollars playing a free game
Snake-Kun
@Overbringer
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:25 AM
The weird thing is the disparity of the experience
Snake-Kun
@Overbringer
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:25 AM
like
Snake-Kun
@Overbringer
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:25 AM
Depending on the kind of person you are
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:26 AM
yeah you can spend $0, $20, or $200,000
Snake-Kun
@Overbringer
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:26 AM
I spent like $20 on skins for LoL, and I NEVER spent any money on Arknights
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:26 AM
I decided once or twice to spend money on arknights, but then I looked at the shop prices and didn't spend money on arknights
Snake-Kun
@Overbringer
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:26 AM
same, honestly
Princess Emily
@deerleisure
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:26 AM
I spent money on Arknights but only on the limited costumes
pastel ranma
@malkuthsoldier
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:26 AM
Yep, but it's fundamentally designed to take advantage of people with lower inhibitions.
Princess Emily
@deerleisure
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:26 AM
not for more rolls
Snake-Kun
@Overbringer
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:26 AM
"It costs HOW much?"
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:27 AM
we're lucky in that we don't have the brain chemistry to be brain poisoned by it
Princess Emily
@deerleisure
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:27 AM
still overpriced which means I am somewhere in their target window lol
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:27 AM
others are not so
pastel ranma
@malkuthsoldier
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:27 AM
Yep exactly
pastel ranma
@malkuthsoldier
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:28 AM
The only reason I don't get shop items in FFXIV is that they're just for one character rather than the whole account, though I understand that is different from gacha.
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:28 AM
yeah like
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:29 AM
I feel like my stance could be challenged by "well how is FF14's cash shop okay then"
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:29 AM
and my answer is twofold
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:29 AM
1: You pay the money and you get the item
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:29 AM
2: It's not. It sucks
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:29 AM
it's a bad aspect of the game that you can spend thirty five dollars on a mount
pastel ranma
@malkuthsoldier
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:30 AM
Definitely.
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:30 AM
it's LESS bad than many other MMOs because you can't buy gil or raid gear
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:30 AM
but still bad
Princess Emily
@deerleisure
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:30 AM
yeah that's bad
Princess Emily
@deerleisure
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:31 AM
at that kind of price it's still taking advantage of certain types of people
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:31 AM
just on a smaller scale
Princess Emily
@deerleisure
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:31 AM
yeah
Snake-Kun
@Overbringer
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:34 AM
https://images.plurk.com/4Sk1GPICZfnnEB4nTmXfaP.png
owl time
@MadarFoxfire
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:34 AM
It's cosmetic stuff but it doesn't pretend to not be cosmetic stuff
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:35 AM
but cosmetic stuff is part of the game
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:35 AM
that's a major part of the experience for people
Snake-Kun
@Overbringer
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:35 AM
Wait
Snake-Kun
@Overbringer
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:36 AM
https://images.plurk.com/4yRSK5jhgfqW7iAF5GEqMh.png
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:36 AM
you can spend $10,000 on DIablo Immortal and get nothing
Snake-Kun
@Overbringer
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:37 AM
Goddammit, I gotta edit it again
Snake-Kun
@Overbringer
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:38 AM
https://images.plurk.com/7essb5SKExmCFcMzrW7IPj.png
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:39 AM
there we go
bitchin camaro
@sanduophon
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:49 AM
yeah. as a granblue player who routinely buys skins...yeah.
DoveEaterXC
@UltraDude
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:51 AM
blessedly I'm actively repulsed by them
DoveEaterXC
@UltraDude
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:52 AM
events running on fomo makes me go no, no
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:53 AM
the thing for which I am blessed:
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:53 AM
when playing Touhou Danmaku Kagura, they ran an event with a mokou/kaguya item
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:53 AM
I blew all my orbs on it, and did not get the drop
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:53 AM
one day before the banner ended and the item went away
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:53 AM
and I went
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:53 AM
I guess I'm not playing this game anymore
Snake-Kun
@Overbringer
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:56 AM
lucky break
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 12:57 AM
if any gatcha moment could break me, it would've been that one
Dragomorph
@Dragomorph
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 1:21 AM
at least you'll get to play it free of gacha bullshit eventually!
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 1:21 AM
so they say
Dragomorph
@Dragomorph
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 1:24 AM
I mean at least there's a Steam page for it
Quinnfernal
@quinn2win
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 1:25 AM
I've had it wishlisted since announcement
yuri duty
@hakurei
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 3:50 AM
yeah.........yeah. I stopped spending money on mobage a while back bc I found a completely different hobby irl to spend my money on orz and looking back at it, the costs are insane it doesn't seem like a lot in the moment but when u add everything up it's like
yuri duty
@hakurei
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 3:50 AM
ah
yuri duty
@hakurei
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 3:50 AM
Mon, Jul 17, 2023 3:53 AM
I sure spent 200 usd on this free game in 2022
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