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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Predatory Gaming Practices
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 09:57:53 +0200
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On 6/26/2024 4:33 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
> The blog post's headline is "Predatory Tactics In Gaming Are Worse
> Than You Think".
> https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/predatory-tactics-in-gaming-are-worse-than-you-think
> 
> And the article then straightforwardly follows up on that topic. If
> you wanted to get an idea of some of the tactics used by game
> developers -especially in the mobile arena- then this is a good primer
> on the subject. I particularly enjoyed the bit where one developer
> admitted that -through data-harvesting- they identified members of the
> Saudi royal family and changed the MTX pricing /just for those users/
> to over a hundred times what other people paid.

that is an interesting way of price-gouging. I never thought about that, 
but it easily might be that with advanced techniques they can target 
rich people with higher prices and they will never notice.


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