Thread 724737647

What are some of the worst anti consumer practices devs use for their games?

We all know about day one dlc and online mandatory authentication but what else is there? interested to hear what you’ve experienced.

>>724737647 (OP)
Anti-competitive practices include patents and lawsuits aimed at eliminating competition; Nintendo is an expert at this, patenting things like Garry's Mod and other games.

Regarding taking money from people, there are dark patterns

>>724737647 (OP)
Making their game $20, distorting the perception of worth to the average gamer, and therefore making harder for other devs to price their games.
other one is announcing the release date only 2 weeks before, making other devs either delay or making their games dead on arrival.
and because they're assholes, they didn't add preorders and crashing the stores (so no money for other devs)

Bump for actual on topic discourse

>>724738702
lmao stay butthurt faggot

>>724738702
Retarded faggot

ugly women

>Releases game in chapters (still not finished after 4 years)
>First chapter is under 20 minutes long and was $5 on release but was made free later with no rewards for early buyers
>Sold nfts
>Got a movie deal when they still only had a 20 minute demo
>Released a dbd clone with the usual battle pass and item shop before the game even functioned
>Currency shop on release charged double what was stated, alter fixed by just bumping up the stated price
>Said multiplayer game has been left to rot for the last 2 years because they don't have the manpower to maintain it
>Of the 4 chapters released so far, only the first one released in a state that could be beaten on launch due to bugs in all the others
>Lore vital for understanding the plot tied to owning $100 merchandise or joining their discord