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Dark Pattern Games

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350 points robotnikman | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 19:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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swi ◴[16 Nov 25 22:31 UTC] No.45949064[source]▶
Chris Wilson released a video on this topic yesterday - "Dark Patterns: Are Your Games Playing You?". He has an interesting perspective having been the lead of Path of Exile. A free to play, decade long, popular, action role playing game.

While opinions vary on the correct use of these patterns, the video is a helpful and easy to digest, reminder of them. The video description contains additional links.

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"Dark Patterns: Are Your Games Playing You?" - https://youtu.be/OCkO8mNK3Gg

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protocolture ◴[16 Nov 25 23:58 UTC] No.45949657[source]▶
PoE seems to be an outlier, having probably the softest freemium model in existence. I dont recall having been even slightly tempted to spend money in that game.
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1. YurgenJurgensen ◴[17 Nov 25 12:44 UTC] No.45953085[source]▶
There’s always a few people, saying this whenever the topic comes up, but as always, smarks are still marks. They want you to think you’re getting one over the system, because you’ll either cave, or advertise the game to someone who does. Even if you don’t, the marginal cost to them is essentially zero.