>>23167900It's bad because it coaxes game developers to design games specifically to bully you into spending money. No, nobody is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to buy jewels. The game does everything in its power to try and coax you into doing so, though - it plays on those very basic instincts in a very primitive part of your brain that's also involved in addiction and it specifically targets people vulnerable to this kind of conditioning, in particular young children with access to their parents' credit cards and mentally weak people who are also susceptible to gambling addiction.
Besides, are you saying you actually enjoy playing the Milotic stage 20 times until you finally get lucky, S-rank it, and the fucker still escapes from the ball despite a 70 percent catch rate? There may be something wrong with your brain.
Also, it's a slippery slope. It starts with f2p. Next gen, GF might experiment with it in the main games. Maybe you'll be able to buy BP in the next version of the Battle Maison with real money. And maybe after that, they'll add cash-only items that are better than the items 'normal' players can get, even though they still paid full price for their game. It's too tempting.
