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Similarly, picking a difficulty option in Doom

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[–] all-knight-party@kbin.run 56 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Oh, they still do that, now it's just nefarious and hidden behind concepts like FOMO and season passes

[–] verycoolusername@lemm.ee 23 points 8 months ago

Yeah I love the fact that in this game, the message was just for the sake of it, while nowadays it would be in order to keep the person playing it addicted to whatever skinner box is integrated into the gameplay loop.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

Only 14 hours until your next daily reward!

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Now if you die like three times they ask you to enable “easy mode”…