"... The commissioner won a bidding war to get art made by one of these figures while they were experiencing a severe manic episode due to medication changes, and when they regretted it (because, you know, it was a manic impulse buy) and explained and tried to get the artist to refund them, even a bit, they refused. The commission was taking a long time and the commissioner basically said "okay well if you won't refund me, you finish it ASAP or this becomes a legal matter", resulting in this piece."
The business types have it all dialed in now. You make a game that is JUST fun enough to enjoy, but annoying enough to make people want to buy these "booster packs."
If the game was really fun then people would gladly sit and slog through the grind because they were having a good time. If you make the game suck too much then people just quit playing. So their answer is "make it fun, but make it really slow to progress."
On top of that, they know people complained about the last time they did this so they plan in advance to release it without the microtransactions. Game reviews praise the game for not having them. A month later, BAM! Microtransactions galore. Pay up or spend 200 hours grinding repetitive copy/paste quests.
Well, I guess it's only fair. I tried Google Translate for the top text to English and it gave me two translation options:
"Request the right to buy any space in the NOI-O by using regular ice cream in the Tet festival" or "Love you right to buy an object in the NOI-O because of the traditional ice cream in Tet"
Same for a friend that has kids. They've got tablets for games and Youtube, but that's about it. Everything else is locked down, they don't have social media accounts, etc... Giving a kid a device doesn't mean letting them have free reign on it any more.
If the game was really fun then people would gladly sit and slog through the grind because they were having a good time. If you make the game suck too much then people just quit playing. So their answer is "make it fun, but make it really slow to progress."
On top of that, they know people complained about the last time they did this so they plan in advance to release it without the microtransactions. Game reviews praise the game for not having them. A month later, BAM! Microtransactions galore. Pay up or spend 200 hours grinding repetitive copy/paste quests.
"Request the right to buy any space in the NOI-O by using regular ice cream in the Tet festival"
or
"Love you right to buy an object in the NOI-O because of the traditional ice cream in Tet"
https://www.yankodesign.com/images/design_news/2020/12/auto-draft/morus_tumble_dryer_1.jpg
I'd rather have the extra three feet in my room instead of the hall.
Giving a kid a device doesn't mean letting them have free reign on it any more.