good news everyone a new utterly miserable sounding MMO has been announced https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/a-former-everquest-producer-wow-vets-and-elden-ring-devs-are-making-an-mmo-filled-with-ai-generated-npcs
@Moot I need a bingo card for these that's just a list of grifts like "defraud series A", "whale economy", and "straight-up theft". With the latest buzzwords in vogue as free spaces.
Defraud series A (funding): basically, convince investors to fund the thing then run with the money.
Whale economy: deliberately designing game systems to condition players to pay that have no ceiling to how much money can go in. Typically kept afloat by "whales", people who invest upwards of thousands or tens of thousands of dollars because of exploitable situations like a gambling addiction.