• howrar@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    I think I’m missing an important part of your argument here. What are they doing that you consider to be dishonest?

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      5 months ago

      F2P games target need big number of people, by necessity their biggest customer share is low-income people: proposing them luxury range product and peer-pressure (“to look good”) is what I call dishonest.

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        5 months ago

        Ah, I see. Though I would call this manipulative, not dishonest.

        entities that seems honest are the most secretly dishonest

        It’s the converse. By definition, dishonest entities (that are good at what they do) will appear honest.


        Definitions aside, let’s go back to my original argument. To rephrase it a bit: A transparently manipulative entity is better than a deceptive and manipulative entity. So why protest the added transparency and not the manipulation?