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'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 months ago

It's no different from VLTs and other gambling products. Not everyone will become addicted, but they are designed to addict. You and me might drop a dollar here or there and move on, but for every ten of us, there is 1 who gets addicted and drops a paycheque a month on this stuff.

[-] LostWon@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Since a lot of it is marketed to kids, I'd bet it's more than 1/10 who have bought into useless microtransactions (with or without parental consent).

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