Runescape Chads showing how its done
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That's how it always is. Battlefront 2 was only barely worse than any other AAA shooter in terms of its money grubbing, but its the only one that people lost their minds over enough to get it removed. Shadow of War had literally tacked on MTX, and people tanked the game out of hatred of them while loving the shit out of other games with more aggressive and necessary lootboxes.
It always comes back to people getting their opinions from their favorite youtubers and ecelebs. So if one of them raises a big enough stink, then everyone joins in and makes it into a thing. Otherwise it ain't going anywhere and everyone will buy it regardless while hating it.
In this case, one of the many big named Runescape creators probably made a video about it and it spiraled from there.
So how do we get people to no longer worship false prophets (heh). Long term thinking with the value of resources seems quite limited and people being addicted fully to stuff like gacha among other things, would this behavior naturally reset itself with the full collapse of the luxury market? Or would the behavior merely be suppressed.
Cause currently I do not see how you reform the behavior of a modern gaming addict.
You can't really. Anyone who convinces them out of their mindset will simply become the replacement.
People don't fall into these mindsets because the industry being predatory creates them, they are born in specific ways that the industry predation appeals to them and they throw themselves into it.
Runescape for example, requires a specific blend of autism, nostalgia, and an extreme sunken cost fallacy to want to finally hit 99 in a skill after 15 years of working on it. If they had slightly more money as a kid growing up, they'd have afforded a real MMO instead of Runescape and be addicted to that. If they didn't play video games, they'd have fallen into some other autism hole to fill their need to mindlessly grind at like coding.
Yeah in this case I think it was a combo of big creators and a reddit mob.