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altima_neo, do gaming w Square Enix Announces Shutdown of Two Mobile Games, One Less Than a Year After Release
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I don’t see how they think mobile games are profitable. The market is so saturated and the games are all very samey with the same daily log in bullshit.

FrankTheHealer,

It’s because of China and the Asian market in general. It’s beyond huge for mobile games. Even the crappiest piece of shit you could imagine will probably make money in that market if advertised in the right way.

Metal_Zealot, do gaming w Square Enix Announces Shutdown of Two Mobile Games, One Less Than a Year After Release
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Maybe they should make another Marvel game

fckreddit, do gaming w Square Enix Announces Shutdown of Two Mobile Games, One Less Than a Year After Release

Hey Square Enix, I am sure if you try again, you might succeed.

cordlesslamp,

What do you think was the problems? Not enough micro-transactions?

xan1242, do gaming w Square Enix Announces Shutdown of Two Mobile Games, One Less Than a Year After Release
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Yu-Gi-Oh Cross Duel suffered the same fate. Dead not one year after release.

Now it’s in the hands of a custom server, barely usable thanks to DRM that was hard to bypass.

Resol, do games w China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent.
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The Chinese government actually does something right for once? My year is saved.

Cybersteel,
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A broken is right sometimss

BaardFigur, do games w China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent.

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  • Zeroc00l,

    Just to add to your profound insight, water is probably wet.

    Tier1BuildABear, do games w China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent.
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    It’d be nice to see that come to rocket League. You know, the game where they removed crates because of the gambling, then removed trading to get kids to spend more money in the shop. So much better :/

    kaffiene, do games w China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent.

    Good. These kinds of transactions are exploitative and prey in the weaknesses of people with addictive personalities

    notannpc, do games w China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent.

    Limiting micro transactions and banning predatory reward schemes in video games is genuinely a good thing. We need this to spread around the world.

    Alsephina, do games w China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent.

    China being based as always

    TangledHyphae,

    “As always” is pretty strong, even in this context.

    Alsephina,

    It’s a bit of a hyperbole of course. But China is generally much better at regulating corporations like this.

    Cybersteel,
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    That’s what absolute power gets you. Zero checks and balance from the legislative, executive, and judicial system.

    AmosBurton_ThatGuy,
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    Fuck china, the CCP, and Xinnie the pooh.

    Fuck anyone that supports china, including you.

    Xanis,

    You are allowed to completely disagree with leadership and goverment policies and actions and still agree with reasonable restrictions and laws. Course I haven’t looked into this so it could very well go way too far.

    AmosBurton_ThatGuy,
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    Nope fuck china and their government. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, doesn’t mean you should expect it and support it.

    Fuck china and fuck everyone that supports the CCP.

    Alsephina, (edited )

    Damn this ‘broken clock’ is strangely good at being right. With their CO2 emmissions plateuing last month and even starting to fall while targeting zero emissions by 2060, them spearheading cleaner energy this month with the first 4th gen nuclear reactor, and boosting trans rights with a court ruling just last week.

    And of course the current new regulation in this post happening right now.

    AmosBurton_ThatGuy,
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    Ffs only on lemmy can you get shit on for telling ccp supporters to fuck off, china and russia are just barely worse than the states(also fuck america) for most corrupt shithole countries.

    Fuck china and and fuck you, you tankie piece of garbage. Go back to weibo or hexbear where you belong you piece of shit.

    Alsephina,

    Lmao I love seeing libs lose their minds when corporations aren’t there to censor everything for them. Cope harder

    Xanis,

    I don’t care for ol Winnie and his Thousand Acre Ego, and hate many things China has done. In far too many ways they are backwards, explicitly destructive, and often refuse to negotiate.

    However, and likely due to the overreach of government there, they certainly can and do make decisions I can at least agree with. If it wasn’t for the general conniving and “fuck you, I prefer one-way streets” way of essentially absolute control, I’d argue they were the good guys. Problem is we know better. The world isn’t that simple.

    I just wish it was.

    We’d be so much further along as a race if we could work together.

    Alsephina,

    Ah, the redditor China Bad^TM^ mindset. Love it

    ahriboy, do games w China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent.
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    The S$20000 ($15000) Genshin Impact buying spree incident in Singapore had indirectly contributed to proposed legislation.

    derpgon,

    The what?

    ahriboy,
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    A lot of games are starting to display warnings to spend wisely when purchasing premium currency.

    Cybersteel,
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    Which part of china is Singapore in?

    filister, do games w China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent.

    Didn’t China also recently introduce a limit of hours adolescents can game?

    The world would be a better place without those transactions in my opinion. It might sound extreme but in my view this is the first step towards gambling addiction.

    We as humanity are becoming really obsessed with everything digital instead of spending more time physically interacting with our peers. And unfortunately I am no exception.

    bionicjoey,

    Part of the problem is that there’s no incentive for game companies to ensure that players are of an appropriate age and are gambling responsibly. It’s a Pandora’s box of capitalism in the same way fossil fuels, cigarettes, and big pharma are. Their customers have a demand for their product which is driven by a physiological/psychological/socioeconomic need, so they aren’t subject to normal market mechanics.

    EssentialCoffee,

    In 2019, it was limited to 90 minutes on weekdays and not between the hours of 10 pm to 8 am.

    In 2021, it was changed to 1 hour per day, only on Fridays, weekends, and public holidays.

    Konraddo,

    Not recently, but yes.

    Also, there’s regulation to disclose the probability in getting rewards from opening “chests”, which is actually gambling in nature.

    yamanii, do games w China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent.
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    If there’s a behavior psychologist/researcher involved in the creation of a product, it’s evil, simple as. Those gacha games absolutely use them.

    Dark_Arc,
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    I think you could go two ways with that. The psychologist could be under a mandate to give feedback to ensure your game is not going to be an addiction or they could be under a mandate to make it as addictive as possible. The latter is way more likely but I wouldn’t totally rule out the value add of any psychologist to any game.

    kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E, do games w China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent.
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