Your argument fucking sucked because it entirely ignores the definition of a scam. How exactly can a transaction where all parties enter with full knowledge of the terms be considered a scam?
When you get nothing, but think you got something. Consent doesn’t matter if the whole thing is a trick. And it is: that’s what games do. That’s what games are for. They trick you into valuing arbitrary worthless crap. Points, hits, lives, goals - they’re not real. They are achievable fictions for making your brain squirt the happy juice.
Your brain is not great at separating forms of value. That’s why points and crap feel good. It’s also why swapping that made-up value for USD is an exploitation of predictable irrationality.
Even if you want to bicker about how actually receiving a made-up thing counts, somehow, you will never convince me some fake hat is worth the price of an entire goddamn game. But that shit’s all over this industry, now. There’s imaginary objects that expect hundreds of dollars. Whole-ass AAA games do not cost hundreds of dollars. Anyone getting manipulated into paying that kind of money, for one thing inside a much larger game, is a victim. As surely as if they’d agreed to pay $5000 for a PS5 because you told them Sony stopped making it. They got exactly what you offered - at a price that’s fucking robbery, because you lied to them about everything else.
By your retarded definition, the entire concept of video games is a scam, since you’ve established that they’re just arbitrary and worthless crap, right? It’s not real, therefore it has zero value, as determined by you, the almighty arbiter of value?
At this point, it sounds like you should just fuck off and stop yelling like a belligerent idiot in the video games community here, since you so clearly have zero fucking interest in the subject beyond crying for your big government to make sure nobody is allowed to disagree with you
Why should I fuck off? I’m not the one going on unhinged rants about how government intervention is necessary because other people have different opinions on what’s worth their money
Your argument fucking sucked because it entirely ignores the definition of a scam. How exactly can a transaction where all parties enter with full knowledge of the terms be considered a scam?
When you get nothing, but think you got something. Consent doesn’t matter if the whole thing is a trick. And it is: that’s what games do. That’s what games are for. They trick you into valuing arbitrary worthless crap. Points, hits, lives, goals - they’re not real. They are achievable fictions for making your brain squirt the happy juice.
Your brain is not great at separating forms of value. That’s why points and crap feel good. It’s also why swapping that made-up value for USD is an exploitation of predictable irrationality.
Even if you want to bicker about how actually receiving a made-up thing counts, somehow, you will never convince me some fake hat is worth the price of an entire goddamn game. But that shit’s all over this industry, now. There’s imaginary objects that expect hundreds of dollars. Whole-ass AAA games do not cost hundreds of dollars. Anyone getting manipulated into paying that kind of money, for one thing inside a much larger game, is a victim. As surely as if they’d agreed to pay $5000 for a PS5 because you told them Sony stopped making it. They got exactly what you offered - at a price that’s fucking robbery, because you lied to them about everything else.
By your retarded definition, the entire concept of video games is a scam, since you’ve established that they’re just arbitrary and worthless crap, right? It’s not real, therefore it has zero value, as determined by you, the almighty arbiter of value?
At this point, it sounds like you should just fuck off and stop yelling like a belligerent idiot in the video games community here, since you so clearly have zero fucking interest in the subject beyond crying for your big government to make sure nobody is allowed to disagree with you
“Just sell games.” “You hate games?!”
Between that the slur-filled abuse, goodbye forever.
Why should I fuck off? I’m not the one going on unhinged rants about how government intervention is necessary because other people have different opinions on what’s worth their money