Similarly, picking a difficulty option in Doom

  • all-knight-party
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    5711 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      2411 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.

    • @hansl
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      211 months ago

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