It's no lie that game developers have honed in on peoples psychology, and they have learned that many have addictive personalities when it comes to playing video games. And in turn they spend lots of money to win. This cuts the competitive edge out of the whole thing. And now people who choose to pay have the upper hand across the board. Does anyone have any ideas on how the average player can compete based on skill rather than spending money?
Looking at the bigger picture: How can the industry change to allow everyone to play on the same level playing field without people advancing merely by paying money?
So this actually goes to the issue of morality and ethics, in business schools today ethics are not being taught anymore its become does it make money.
Consider something I witnessed when I was running my own business with card games, as following what’s happening with the makers of the games and such just makes sense, Upper Deck had the licence for YuGiOh from Konami for North America and other parts of the world, at some point they started making counterfeit YuGiOh cards. Oh it gets even better as the president/ceo of Upper Deck was directly involved too.
Now when it comes to large scale games like Magic, Pokemon, and YuGiOh the owners are often on the look out for counterfeits entering the market Konami found these in packaging, if you’ve ever been in the aisle with cards its one with a bunch of cards not in the original boosters or decks, in a toysrus they went to the company who supplied the pack to the store and from there the company said they got them from Upper Deck this lead to an investigation where they discovered Upper Deck’s activities.
This lead to Konami basically pulling the licence from Upper Deck by lawsuit, who then counter sued trying to take YuGiOh from Konami for breach of contract. In the end Upper Deck settled and admitted to their wrong doing.
The problem really comes back to morality and ethics, I’m sure you’ve seen the memes of some one making a suggestion, everyone looks at them angrily, and them getting thrown out a window. That’s almost how it is, if you are the only person in the room who makes the argument against these manipulations you’ll be on the out.
And for the people who believe the government is the solution consider this paradox most states ban gambling but how many states have lotteries, forty-five do and five don’t, and one of those five is ironically Nevada. Should the government ban these activities what necessarily stops them government from doing the same now they would be the theoretical monopoly. Theoretical as you would still have outside the US for now.
As for the solutions really there are only four,
1. one don't play any games,
2. only play games from trustworthy and honest companies,
3. only play games with absolutely no monetization or only monetizes cosmetic items
4.
Play older games.
Seriously, they're usually better.