Good. We need to stop letting companies announce something aggreious and then pull back to something slightly shitty after “reflecting on community feedback”
But the change would have been an arguable improvement in terms of how psychologically exploitative battlepasses are, as it technically reduces sunk cost fallacy.
If you have to buy each battle pass, you won’t feel as pressured to play through each one to keep the chain going. If you want to sit out a season, either to take a break or because the current pass doesn’t have anything you want, doing so would no longer have meant you’d “lose” the pass after that one, because you’d have to buy it either way.
But to change to a “buy-every-season” model, the price should have been reduced accordingly.
Good. We need to stop letting companies announce something aggreious and then pull back to something slightly shitty after “reflecting on community feedback”
*egregious
Cool.
True.
But the change would have been an arguable improvement in terms of how psychologically exploitative battlepasses are, as it technically reduces sunk cost fallacy.
If you have to buy each battle pass, you won’t feel as pressured to play through each one to keep the chain going. If you want to sit out a season, either to take a break or because the current pass doesn’t have anything you want, doing so would no longer have meant you’d “lose” the pass after that one, because you’d have to buy it either way.
But to change to a “buy-every-season” model, the price should have been reduced accordingly.