The Shrine

So my brother tell to check this game out called Dungeon Links which looks like you standard mobile Korean gamble pack game. So of course they have some popup for special deals and I decided to read it, and I noticed the price on those are like $75, $298, $501, and so on. Now, from what I remember, those things usually price between $5 to $99 so at first I thought this was supposed to be in renminbi ($1 = 6 RMB) or I don't know, pesos or something. But they do have the USD$ sign, so I checked with my brother and he's like yeah that's USD$. Sure, the deal you get is like 85% off, but I was told that it is actually possible to buy the version that isn't 93% off so you can pay $600 for a typical purchase that'd be around the $50 in a typical mobile game. How is this stuff even legal? I know how the pricing for these games work and they're basically charging you 10 times of what would be fair even for gamble pack if you accidentally clicked on the wrong deal. Sure there is almost always a 85% or more percent off deal but you can always accidentally buy them at the full price if you bought more than once (usually those are 1 per day, and I'm pretty sure there's a full priced non-deal somewhere in there).

I think you are making an assumption that every video game maker is an ethical individual who would not engage in stupid ripoff shit like this. It is a fine thing to believe that nobody would ever offer stupid absurd virtual crap at hundreds of dollars a pop, but it is not in line with the reality of the human race.

"Content creators" like this are often trying to get little kids to charge up a grand or two on their parents' credit cards, then take the money and run, and they don't care if lives are ruined in the meantime. It's sad, but true.

I know they're not ethical but I thought $99 for some stuff is already a pretty bad ripoff and this is about 10 times worse. At $99 for most mobile content I've seen you can say 'well it's worth it if you really need this stuff' but add another digit to that, I don't see how it can possibly be anything but 'hope you accidentally click on this'. I mean I know plenty of guys who spent hundreds or thousands on a game and I can vaguely understand buying the $99 special 10 times, but this would likely be too expensive even for those guys.

God I forgot you had a brother heh. How is he?

He went to the dark side and is only playing mobile games now because he's always on travel and his laptop can't possibly play anything. I remember we tried to play FF14 and it'd overheat in half an hour.