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Nearly 90% Of Developers Surveyed Say Premium Games Don't Need Microtransactions (insider-gaming.com)

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[+] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And there are plenty of irresponsible parents. There was a story about 5 years ago I remember of a young kid (like 6 years old) who literally emptied his parents' bank account on mtx in an iPhone game because they didn't know it had mtx in it.

And saying that people with mental health issues need to git gud is like saying that people in wheelchairs need to git gud and use stairs. What we need to do is replace the idiots with people who understand how bad this shit is so we can get something done about it.