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> I need Starcarft 3 badly

This feels at least tangentially relevant :

https://battlechat.co/15-wow-mount-outearned-starcraft-2/

I haven't personally double checked the math behind this claim, but it does broadly track and makes me slightly apprehensive. I don't mean this as an absolute because there are clear and obvious exceptions, like From, but it increasingly feels like the market is actively disinsentivizing devs from making good, unpolluted, games.

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Behavioural hacking people is certainly cheaper then making them happy, and the ultimate hack - is heroine. The final form of all unchecked buisnesses is virtual drug dealing. Invest now into the ultimate society meltdown..

This is true but I'm observing more and more casual players and just regular humans begin to catch up and become resistant. They understand they're being addicted and milked and started pulling back.

Or, consumers grow more and more resistant to the BS. Ultimately, we insist on authentic experiences, not virtual fakery.

> but it increasingly feels like the market is actively disinsentivizing devs from making good, unpolluted, games.

Increasingly? Have you seen what mobile games make? Blizzard didn't make Diablo Immortal for the fans. They made it for the money. And people paid.

If you remotely believe in money talking, than yes, the market has been actively disinsentivizing devs from making good, unpolluted, games for a LONG time now.

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