• Elise@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    One time I nearly cut a job due to being asked to make something gambling related, but when I worked on an addictive mobile game I simply didn’t realize what I was doing. Honestly, I couldn’t have known unless I had asked about their monetization strategy before they brought new people on to implement it. And at that point the game was as good as done. I remember walking through Barcelona and seeing all these kids on their phones in the park and not playing or having fun, it felt surreal. I bawled my eyes out and didn’t return to the job. You know I genuinely just wanted to give people some fun in this world.

    The issue with mobile games is that nobody is prepared to pay even 5 euros for a game. So for mobile game developers it is business as usual to do it this way.

    • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz
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      4 months ago

      It’s crazy to me how we went from buying a complete game for $50, and now we get an enshitified, half completed mobile game for free but people spend hundreds of dollars playing it.

      And it’s nowhere near as good.