catfishing is KILLING gaming | Dragon Age Veilguard Roast
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What the fuck. Catfishing is when someone pretends to be a hot girl to lure in (usually stupid YouTube personalities) desperate victims and extort them.
Sounds like it applies to me. The studios are pretending to still be the people that made that one game to lure in (usually stupid youtube personalities) desperate victims and extort them with MTX.
That's bait and switch. The bait is them selling it on expectation that it's the competent game devs that made it and is actually good, the switch is that it's made by retards.
Catfishing is literally a bait and switch though. The bait is the "hot chick" being presented and the switch is that its a completely different person baiting you in.
But "hot chick" isn't what they're advertising. These games are advertising mannish freaks.
Apparently the term is from a movie with an at least reasonably attractive catfish.
We used to call it the Gypsy switch. Hence the phrase "What a gyp!"