movingmusicals: "Harvard graduates scheming to take $5 from 12-year-olds." LMAO.

joey1772: Meanwhile Skyrim has so many free mods that you can play whole new versions of the game for free 13 years after release

Pepe-dq2ib: 60yrs later and Asmon cant forget the emotional damage from Tamagotchi.

Dr.WoodRecommends: When a game feels like a second job, without the tangible money, you've been trapped.

wintermintmojo2418: Nothing demotivates me from playing a game more than daily/weekly quests being the primary way to progress.

Rensune: This is the inevitable result of forcing people to stay connected to the Internet for Single player games (even games you literally used to be able to play offline)

MinscS2: And right after this he started up Where Winds Meet and spent $500 on a gay horse...

cfalkner1012: I’m 40, my son is 10. We started off with good old fashion Halo, and Champions of Norrath. No fucking way I’m letting him play new games with loot crates and other nasty shit till he’s at least 32.

Volkaer: Back in my day (shit I sound old saying that), games used to encourage people to "engage more than they intended", by being actually good and fun games to play.

MagnusInquisitorAquarii: in 2025 America video game plays you

peeperinos: Ubisoft when making a game: what is this fun everyone is speaking of?

Fyrecide: 13% of the dark patterns account for 55% of the excess spending.

spardax1068: That is the reason why a lot of indie games nowadays are having so many players playing them. A lot of them are made to be fun not cash grabs.

komocakeps527: today I realized that I hate the word "retention".

renzlenardpuga735: Either I am fast or I am that unemployed

Zaneyuppy-zy: You've been trapped when a game feels like a second job, with no tangible compensation.

DarthChrisB: Harvard psychology PhDs trying to steal 12 year olds' lunch money

FPScanadaPC: My mom has this persistent "virus" on her macbook that is just adobe popping up in front of everything, basically interrupting anything you are doing, to tell you that your adobe license has expired.

She doesn't want to completely uninstall adobe for some reason, so she lives with these pop ups every 10 minutes or less. I would lose my mind if that was my PC.

AuxxiliaryATC: “In corporate America, game play YOU”

Baltic_Dude: Daily logins make me feel like, if I decide not to give in to the daily logins, now I'm comparatively behind other players who are rewarded where I am left out so I just drop the game entirely. Why go back to compete with players who got bonuses where I didn't.

Taegreth: Remember when the Celestial Steed on WoW was advertised as being a limited-time purchasable mount? They sold it through FOMO manipulation and later on said JK it's in the store forever.

kirigherkins: asmon's so right that FOMO prevents existing players from coming back if they lapse, I've quit so many games with FOMO because I took a break and then never come back. meanwhile I can happily take a 3-month break from my cyberpunk save file and come back right where I left off no problem

SquirrelyOBrien: It all started with a horse skin for oblivion, and now we are here.

mawhulk: Bald on Bald action

Gull0202: After viewing the video Asmon went on to showcase every single Dark Pattern chasing a Gacha horse on Where Winds Meets. It was incredible

rA9_Angel: for game developers this video is a tutorial

Atheism_Wins: Biggest reason why I play less and less games.

Nov 20 2025

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