It is getting really annoying now. The shop is fomo, boring and overpriced. Fix it.
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I pay little to no attention to the shop at all but I’m pretty sure it only resets once a week. On Tuesdays. So a “daily bundle” should be there the entire week. I’d think.
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I check it daily, the shop has 3 things all week and the 4th changes daily. I think the user is referring to the fact they have put the same item in the shop multiple times this week.
Some stuff comes up regularly and some stuff doesn’t come up at all.
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Well you’d know better than I. I literally never check the store tab.
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“We don’t want to weaponize FOMO”
“Buuuut, we will have a rotating store which refreshes on Tuesday’s, so grab what you want now because you don’t know when it will be back!”
“Quick, get on for this limited-time event before it goes away FOREVER”
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Given how few store slots there are recycling and reselling the same items now seems a bit soon.
Although actually, I think it repeats once a week not 3 times a week (at least I didn’t see one repeat so often). This week it seems each day items are repeats from the week before I think.
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How is the same item showing up three times in a week fomo? Like, if you keep seeing the same items in rotation, wouldn’t your fomo vanish because you knew the items would just come right back?
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It is sold 3 times a week and then it goes away for months. That’s fomo.
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Weeb charms in the store again?
Nice
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It’s fomo because it’s locked behind a paywall
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Yeah, the last few weeks of cycling through the same 3 daily bundles every week has been a bit annoying. What was wrong with all 7 days getting a different daily bundle? No, I didn’t purchase that set of 3 emblems a few days ago, what makes you think I’m gonna buy them today just three days later? Show me some other daily pack that might have something that interests me enough to actually get it.
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In case you missed it, here it is again 2 days later! ENJOY! lol
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FOMO only works on weak minded people. The problem is, when it comes to gaming 343 knows there is a hell of a lot of weak minded people that play the game.
So, don’t expect things to ever change.
Not that this childish game has ever worked on me, but it’s actually pathetic how many weak players there are.
Because this if anything brings in the points and gets it across, right?
Doesn’t really seem you know where fomo is from, and how it’s been cultivated for basically a decade.
But as with everything, blame the users and not the companies which abuse and exploit the system to disgusting degrees.
You get extra cookies for being so disrespectful and self-centered about it as well.
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Drip fed content. Welcome to modern gaming.
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Have you ever been to Vegas, and if so are you going to blame the casino for wasting your money that you lost?
You are fully responsible for your own actions, and you are fully aware of what you are getting yourself into playing slot machines. The same thing applies to any shop in any game. Being responsible seems to come to mind that apparently a lot of people aren’t because of the billions companies make off of microtransactions.
Case and point. Activision made 1.2 billion just in 3 months this year. But, just to clear things up. I agree it’s wrong what a lot of companies are doing today with shops knowing they’re not using them as it are intended purpose.
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Dumb take comparing to gambling when video games are supposed to be this way lmao
You ever witnessed gambling addictions? That preys on the same logical paths that FOMO does. I did a report on loot box addictions in college and found a decent amount of research comparing the two.
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Right, because things are best when they are that simple.
Sorry but no, that’s not really applicable for a number of reasons. So let’s hop to it.
Gambling as an entertainment aspect is as fun as it goes for whoever it may concern. It’s a risk as odds are stacked against you.
Gambling as a concept isn’t that bad as long as people know how it works, what the odds are and what they can gain at what cost. How many casinos educate people on that? How visible, eye-catching and easily enough to understand are text at casinos describing the functions and odds of winning at tables or machines?
Let’s not either forget that the environment gambling generally happen in, especially casinos are busy, distracting and very “cheerful”, I also certain they’re very encouraging in making players spend money.
No doubt methods developed and established using a lot of psychology. As well as painting themselves in a very positive fun light.
One thing a lot of machines have in common with microtransactions, are the small fees. A machine can take a small sum of money, barely noticeable, and you’re sure you can afford it, untill you figure out you’ve spent too much without noticing, when it’s too late.
You sure are getting in to it on your own accord, but don’t pretend casinos aren’t doing everything they possibly can to psychologically manipulate as much money they can from you. Not only that but hooking people on, nothing short of an addiction.
Because companies have hired literal psychologists, and have years and years of studies to maximise the profits, most likely sharing work as well.
Mm. A succesful company being part of the normalization of microtransactions for the last decade makes money utilising years of work meant to manipulate players and normalize their own behaviour.
Oh, but I thought you were big strong brain mindy man?
That trix are for kids and therefore these company trix don’t work on you.
Weak minded people are the fault of the situation we find ourselves in, not the companies gunning for them.
Which brings us to the next thing, you.
You may get an ego-boost when not buying stuff for small amounts of money in a game-store. Thing is though, you’re not their target. They’re not considering you in any way possible, would they like it if you payed? Sure, do they care that you don’t? No. Because you are not their audience, you’re not their intended demographic. You’re like a deer in a moose hunt, priding yourself in your stealthy when literally no one is gunning for you.
The whole “weak minded” attitude towards those who give in and buy stuff, just haphazardly glosses over many, many of the factors which goes into a person’s personality and how they function and interact with these kinds of things, as well as completely overlook any history with how they’re raised and what kind of things they’ve been subjected to, especially since an early age which has left a lasting impression in them. Because as much as you’d like to think so, the “unfortunate” truth is that no one else is like you, my personality isn’t like yours. Whatever “traps” you can fall in, I may avoid, and vice versa. I have many issues myself which I’m struggling with, and others have issues I don’t have. And those are largely “blamed” on a huge variety of things we’ve seen, done and experienced over the years.
Either people are vulnerable to specific tactics, or they’re conditioned into giving into them.
Let’s take an extreme case here to showcase the point:
It’s been studied that children coming from warzones or warzone like places are more prone to violence later in life.
Do you think they wake up in the mornings actively choosing violence, or is there an underlying aspect herding them towards those actions?
Would it be nice if they just had a shop like Ghost recon Breakpoint. Buy it as we please, but that they won’t push those fomo sales I gues
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