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Behaviorism posted...

I still have never played a mobile game. How do these money packs work? Can you not play the game unless you buy a new money pack every week? Or can you just not progress? Or is it just a "level up. Ten levels by buying this" or what?

In "free" games they usually sell gems or other premium currency you can buy with real money. Those gems can speed up the gameplay in many ways like no need to wait 36 hours for something to get upgraded or they charge you x amount of gems to buy something permanent.

Funny thing is that those gems can't and won't be refunded. Your kid bought gem pack with 300 dollars? Tough luck. If there is some absurd amount like 1k money used and it becomes news the company might refund you 1/3 back if even that.

Thats why they sell those extremely expensive starter packs, or give constant gem deals to make stupid kids or people with serious addiction problems to make a bad choice and buy something.

Those games are very shallow. If you took all those nickel and diming + timers away, and imagine them as just normal, fair games, they are just really boring and shallow. The companies just makes some really quick and slaps all kinds of artificial breaks and shit to slow the player down. Then they use all kinds of psychological shit to try to make them feel super rewarding and hide the fact that those games are just poorly made cash grabs.
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