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Elden Ring is getting a free-to-play mobile version with in-app purchases
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this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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I didn't miss the point. You're talking about free games that live on mtx and ads... That's the problem. There shouldn't be games that function that way, and the fact that you're using that as some gotcha talking point just proves how normalized they are. They're predatory.
It’s another unrelated market, mobile games can’t charge $80 for a game. People don’t even like paying $10. That style of developing is barely affordable nowadays as well for pc/console anyways, but that’s another argument and not relevant to this one.
You are comparing apples to oranges. And there’s nothing predatory when it’s done correctly, but there’s also some people who just see the devil in everything, lien you apparently.
Ok, bud.