Free video games are video games that you don't need to pay money in order to download it before playing it. Games like Fortnite, PUBG, League of Legends, Apex Legends and so on are good examples of such games. But all of them have tons of microtransactions in it where you're expected to spend money on gaming cosmetics. Do you usually fall for such traps?
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Do you spend money on free games?
- Thread starter Heatman
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I did that with Guild Wars 2. There's no telling what I've spent on that game in the 10 years I've played it. Used to you had to buy Guild Wars 2 before it became Free 2 Play after it's release in 2012. But before the base game became free they still had their shop where you could buy new skins and DLC content.
I thought Forge of Empires was bad in the way that it takes months to build your Kingdom if you're not using their shop to buy time speed boosters, gold, and temporary invulnerablility consumables to keep high level players from sacking your castle. That game is entirely based on microtransactions. Things go super slow if you don't spend money.Those free games for your phone are the worst! 30 second ads every minute it seems.
Sounds like a game I would delete as soon as it asked for my money.
lol that's what I ended up doing. I mostly just play Guild Wars 2 if I get real real bored.
I do spend money in Pokemon Go from time to time. When I can't leave the house for whatever reason, and I run out of raid passes or Pokeballs I have to purchase coins.
How much are those things?
I know the feeling, I've probably spent hundreds on Pokemon GO at this point as often as I buy coins for raid passes. How dare they make games so addicting!
Yeah theres a whole science behind these money making schemes, I mean games.
Indeed, nearly every product has purchases beyond the actual product itself, it seems.
Something they've invented in modern times. It wasn't like that back in the day. Video games didn't have DLC's and all that nonsense.
I guess the companies got more greedy over time.
That and they’re exploiting the glorious invention of the internet for profit.
