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More to the point, it's a business. There's no such thing as too much. We can still play for free if we choose.

There absolutely is such thing as too much. The aggressive push for 600 dollars every 2-3 months is too much when you compare it to doing that only 2 times a year.

Too much for who?
For people who think they must buy everything, perhaps.
For a company who is trying to keep the lights on, not at all.
No one is forcing anyone to buy these. If it's too much for us personally, we're free to pass. The fact that people are still offended with EVERY Offer this game releases almost 11 years later is crazy to me. They're a business. They're going to try and make money.

When even the mega whales who buy everything says its becoming too aggressive and predatory, then something is obviously wrong. Just cause you either refuse or fail to see that doesn't make it any less true.

Predatory is a ridiculous word for a mobile game that offers optional sales.

I don’t have a particular opinion on the sales, hence my lack of comment, but this is just blatantly wrong. “Predatory” has been standard language used to describe all sort of gacha mobile game tactics designed to trick people into spending money, we’ve had literal legislation written because of it. We have drop rates on crystals because of this. Again, I make no comment on whether such language deserves to be applied here to MCOC but this feels like a ridiculous claim to make given the very real specter that hangs around similar games.

You can call it what you want. I don't agree. No one is being tricked into anything.

Gonna be real, this is the comment that makes me finally agree with everyone that you’re loony.

Predatory has never been a term that requires force or even strict coercion in anything but the literal predator/prey sense. Predatory lenders don’t force anyone to accept their loans. Predatory behavior doesn’t need to involve literal coercion, many victims engage willingly. It just means you’re preying on people in some way, often in a deceitful manner. Literally every industry engages in this sort of thing, intensive research into human psychology to figure out how to make people do what you want without them realizing there’s anything suspicious going on. The video game industry is no different, microtransactions and lootboxes especially. The idea that either these sort of things don’t exist or that it’s just a skill issue on consumer’s part is so offensive and divorced from reality that it’s kinda staggering.

And because you seem to really want to defend MCOC, I will restate from my original comment that I’m speaking generally and make no claims as to whether MCOC is predatory. I just find your apparent take that predatory tactics don’t exist or don’t matter to be fundamentally appalling. The human brain is a weird thing, and expecting that people just know how to avoid any and all ways that it can be taken advantage of is just myopic. People don’t work like that.

There are worse hobbies, guys 🤷‍♂️

Edison, have you ever wondered if you're asking the wrong question?

You're asking people to 'rate' Mr Fantastic twice: (1) how do they think other people rate him, and (2) how do they personally rate him?

Then they compare the two to decide if he's overrated or underrated.

However, a few years on the forums is more than enough to learn that actually, we're pretty bad at judging other people's opinions.

So two people might both think Mr Fantastic is pretty good. Person A thinks other people hate Mr Fantastic. Person B thinks other people think he's pretty good.

So, Person A says he's Underrated.
Person B says he's Perfectly rated.

So what have we actually learned about Mr Fantastic?

I'd say: nothing. We didn't actually learn either person's opinion about Mr Fantastic, which is that both person A and B think the same thing: that he's pretty good.

So, why not just ask if Mr Fantastic is good?

Or add a scale like Poor-Mid-Useful-Strong-Amazing?