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by jfkebwjsbx 2210 days ago
Please keep in mind that games without gameplay-enhancing in app purchases want you addicted as much as possible.

The reason is that they profit with the ones that pay a lot, and those players only stay if there are many others that play too.

Then there are the ones that put advertising inside the games as an alternative way of making money. Same thing...

Games that have no in app purchases of any kind and no DLCs either are the best, because they have designed the game without profit being a factor in gameplay.

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That does not make them different then any other online games. Trying to be addictive is current trend no matter what monetization model.

The only games that don't need to be addictive are single player one time payment games. And those are very limited in terms of who they attract.