So, so sick of these pathetic companies monetizing everything to the max to the detriment of everything else, then saying “Oopsie mistake! That was not intended” when the backlash is too great. If they said “our publisher was not content with making a great profit, we wanted to ruin your experience to maximize shareholder returns, but you folks all complained too much and it’s now affecting our reputation”, I would at least respect the honesty…
Ban all forms of taking money inside video games.
“What you don’t want to pay $1 each time you reload a gun in game??” - John Riccitiello
That… is not how programming bugs work…
They meant the feature flag should’ve stayed
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until the player base was hooked on the game enough to make the pushback minimal.Intern slipped, fell and landed on the “monetize extra lives” button