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wobbly9570@lemmy.sdf.org to Ghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 year ago

New Study Shows Kids Are Bullied For Not Spending Money In Free-To-Play Games

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New Study Shows Kids Are Bullied For Not Spending Money In Free-To-Play Games

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wobbly9570@lemmy.sdf.org to Ghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 year ago
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Younger gamers are being harassed for not having the latest skins in games like Fortnite
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  • randoot@lemmy.world
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    It should be the other way around. Oh you suck so bad you had to pay.

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      That’s kinda how it used to be.
      But I guess there’s enough idiots now defending microtransactions with such clever takes like “nobody forces you to buy those!”

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        It’s FOR SURE how it used to be.

        Source: was that bully.

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      Yeah, seriously, what kind of loser pays someone to do better in a game they play for fun?

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    Fuck Fortnite.

    • 🇸‌🇵‌🇪‌🇨‌🇺‌🇱‌🇦‌🇹‌🇪‌🇷‌@lemmy.world
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      Seriously, I got my niece the battle pass, thinking cool lots of skins she can unlock. Nope, she wants v bucks for every holiday and her birthday to collect every single “limited time” skin. It’s nuts how it highjacks their dopamine to funnel money to Epic.

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      Fortnite probably has the fairest monitization in all games with the fairest battle pass you can unlock for free after a couple seasons or buy once and then get enough currency to always be able to buy the new battle pass with it.

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        Or you can just sell the game and release modding tool like they use to with Unreal Tournament.

        I wouldn’t know anything about the specifics of how the microtransactions work. I never touch any game with them.

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    Pay to win but irl

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    Kids are bullied for practically anything.

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      I’m an adult and my nephew called me a “default” a couple years back because I had downloaded fortnite to give it a shot and had the default skin.

      I still haven’t recovered.

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    This has been going on forever.

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      Removed by mod

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    Off topic I know, but the kid in the thumbnail has such beautiful hair! Even I want blue hair like that lol

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      Yeah, the color is nice but the cut is atrocious.

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      I was thinking that they’d get bullied to shit because of that hair

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