There's a joke to be made somewhere here. (the flags are which country plays the game the most)
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Fucking candy crush is part of what made me realize how genuinely retarded the general population is. It’s a candy matching game, why would you ever spend money on something so boring?
A semi-randomized one, nothing like Bejeweled. Some boards are literally unwinnable, it's glorified gambling and it's most popular with women
i played candy crush up till when i realized its impossible to win without paying money and that's when i quit
Monopoly Go is actually just gambling from what I've heard. You literally just roll the dice.
Its almost entirely women who play it on the toilet or the bus, and its designed in such a predatory way where you are just dropping a few dollars to get through a level you were "just so close" to getting.
Its probably one of the most distilled examples of how predatory mobile games are, and why women are the reason most households nickle and dime themselves into continuous poverty.
Because at least when a dumb nerd spends 300$ on gacha, he has a pretty waifu to jerk off to. Women spend 300$ on mobile games for sticks of dynamite they lose instantly.
Because people are easily manipulated and will be highly motivated to win any competitions even if they're fake and nonsensical. Back in 2014 one of my university buddies worked at a chain restaurant, and they had a competition there where the franchise in the province that sold the most of one type of beer would win a prize but if you finished in the bottom-3 of the competition you'd get corporate audited. Fun fact: the place he worked at was the only one in the entire province.
So they won the prize before being promptly audited, then?
If I remember right the prize was % off coupons for the restaurant, which is probably the biggest slap in the face possible. "We're not making enough money, so we hope when you're not working you use the min wage we give you to spend more money here"
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It’s an easy puzzle matching game enjoyed by women. And the gameplay is such that you can casually pick it up and put it down in your free moments or while you’re waiting. The large majority of female gamers are of the casual cell phone game variety.
Whenever someone asks why do modern video games suck just show them this.
You know what we really need? A breakdown of all the people who spent money on these video games based on sex, race, age and nationality. I want to know who exactly is fucking us over. Is it the Indians? The White simps? The 12 boys? The White women? The teenage girls? Maybe it's just the Chinese and we don't even know it.
Pretty sure it was always women?
Going back to the very beginning (2000's ish?) of the claims that more women play games than men, it was because of Farmville on facebook.
Facebook and Zenimax pioneered the idea of paying to bypass waittimes just a few years before the iPhone became a thing. They focused entirely on the dopamine hit of getting a happy little poppup telling you that something had happened, then making you wait to get the next one, unless you pay just a little bit of imaginary money from you imaginary credit card.
Then mobile phones made the scam 10x more profitable.
But that's only the pure numbers. The "whales" are inevitably autistic men with tones of disposable income and absolutely no friends.
There's that one case of the saudi prince who owns every game on steam, and likely every dlc, just because. He's probably done the same with his phone. But I doubt that's a particularly large demographic.
I think women started it but now it's also average men. The internet went to shit when the average IQ of internet users went from the top 1-2 SDs above the mean to the mean. Gaming and the internet go hand-in-hand ofc.
Would still be interesting to see. I'd also be curious on a income/wealth level of the people spending money on this garbage. It's probably like poor people too. Complain they can't buy groceries and spend $60 on virtual trash.
Gambling disguised as gaming is nothing new. In fact, that’s how gambling originally infiltrated the mainstream - by pretending that it was gaming. Absence of proper regulation has allowed gambling platforms to masquerade as “video games”, so of course the most profitable “video games” are gambling platforms.
In other words: we are dealing with a deliberate and malicious category error.
Even arcade machines in the 80's were deliberately difficult so you'd have to insert more quarters to get your name in the high score. Arcade machines are literally programmable by prize win %.
I get the obvious jokes with 10 and 2 but is 7 the Hong Kong flag as that REALLY makes you pull your collar in how apt that is..
The joke for #10 obviously doesn't work since it involves spending money.
Country flags is for country of company that own the property, not country that play the most.
Coin Master was developed by Tel Aviv, Israel-based company Moon Active. (the jokes write themselves)
Monopoly GO! is PIF'ed by that sweet Saudi money
Honkai star rail is not made by Singaporean though so your theory doesn't make sense.
That's because it's published under Cognosphere. MiHoYo's mobile global publishing arm in Singapore (for so many good reasons). Flag is not for biggest spenders, it's publisher's country.
number 6: diabetes intensifies
i dont get the joke with 2? Are saudis known for buying real estates or something?
Ask the UK who buys up a lot of their buildings behind the Chinese..
Oy vey!
Keep in mind a lot of mobile games are also used for money laundering
The jokes literally write themselves.
What on earth does the headline mean, what possible jokes could you come up???
Ohhhhhh wait, I think I got it...CANDY Crush because Americans are FAT. That's what you meant, right guys?