cyan wrote:Thanks Chrizine. My thought exactly, I just had a hard time to put them into words, so thank you for your post.
They aren't instituted to hurt anyone in particular. They're not scheming to pray on anyone psyche
Have you ever played any game that has lootboxes? They are psychological manipulation galore. The whole concept is to make you spent more than you ever would on a direct purchase.
The idea with the Knuffel drop would even have been directly bound to the donation itself. So donating becomes impossible for anyone who doesn't want to gamble.
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I have, like I mentioned before LINE PLAY uses gachas. Which are luck machines. You spend a certain amount of cash to obtain 10 randoms items or so for your avatar. Whether those were items you wanted or not is subjective.
I've also played a game called unison league, which is summoning game.
All games of gambles I supposed.
But what I spend on those was my own doing, and my own responsibility. The games didn't force me to spend anything. I could enjoy them without spending. But I did at times and that was my choice.
So you mean to tell me that those features control you? and not the other way around?. I get that chance games like that could make you spend more then you would otherwise do. But if you want whatever it is it's offering. You should control yourself. Or you should ignore it.Just because you don't like it doesn't mean others won't. how about for those people who want to play something like this. Why not allow users the opportunity to decide for themselves. When it'll be really easy for it to be ignored if its not to a person's liking while leaving those who want to use to do so. Equal opportunity for everyone.
NOW....the knuffel idea, this is sepearte and should really be discussed in the other thread. But like I said before it's something nice that COULD happen to you. Not necessary something users are entitled to. Since we already have so many rewards for donating. It could be an extra incentive.
You could honestly ignore it complete like it's not even there if that were to happen. It doesn't change the donation system because you still get everything you normally would get for donating.
Maybe Firn could add a "I don't want to participate in the knuffel drop" box. And voila, you get yourself out of your dilemma. If your not donating for the knuffel but just for the items, then that should be fine. Let people who want to participate, participate.
While I don't understand why you wouldn't want a little extra wonderful knuffel I don't know, but that solved that problem. If you'd like to discuss this further you are free to head over to the other thread. As that's the place we are discussing the knuffel drop. This is different.
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