this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

I remember hearing some time ago that mobile games give you progressively cheap "special deals" to make you buy anything from them, as that makes future purchases way more probable

I imagine it's similar here - "Oh, you didn't buy any games recently? But what if they went on sale?"