Mortal Kombat 1 players are finding themselves quite upset this week following the announcement that paid Fatalities will soon be coming to the popular fighting game. With the last few Mortal Kombat installments, NetherRealm Studios has added paid content that players can choose to purchase outside of the main game. Not only has this additional content taken the form of DLC fighters and story expansions, but an in-game storefront has also been established that gives players new cosmetic options for various characters. Now, with Mortal Kombat 1, NetherRealm is tucking exclusive Fatalities behind a paywall too, and it’s not going over well with fans.
Unfortunately, even that wouldn’t be reliable information, because several major games have added this crap in after launch. Sometimes immediately. Sometimes after a few weeks on sale.
Even if clear warnings were accurate, I worry they’d just encourage the thought-terminating cliche of “just don’t buy it.” I’m already not-buying it as hard as I can. It’s still spreading. Fools think that proves it’s what consumers want, when obviously it’s so profitable that boycotts can’t work.
Only legislation can fix this.
You are 100% correct. The same is correct for social media and there are studies that indicate that social media is „trapping“ people through their mechanics, dark patterns and peer pressure.
I‘m still baffled that some people (on lemmy!) are not able to understand why big corpos=bad.
Even fucking Mastodon implemented infinite scrolling. Shoved that right in there when Twitter caught fire - if there’s an option to go back to what I signed up for, I have not found it.
Now I gotta ask: is that not how it was? I haven’t been a big twitter user ever.
It used to be cleanly paginated like mobile Twitter… back when mobile Twitter existed. You’d get 20 or 40 posts in a row, and then a Next link. Which I think was based on timestamps instead of being /page/2 nonsense, so reloading a tab would actually put you where you left off, instead of some arbitrary distance behind the eternal present.
Okay! That makes sense. I can see how this both improves the using experience for some but also makes it more addictive.
What’s so bad about infinite scrolling pages?
It’s an antipattern. It prevents you from segmenting your time on a site, so you’re more likely to just keep going, never recognizing it’s been hours.
It’s also dogshit for usability. Are you trying to catch up on some artist’s comic? Have fun holding Page Down for half an hour. Hope the site doesn’t reload whenever it feels like it.