#PayToLoose

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-12-28

This may be considered #HotTakes by some, I consider these #based: (no ragebait inteded!)

If you have a problem with these, please kindly fuck off in silence!

This list is non-exhaustive...

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-12-09

Dann doch lieber nen #SleeperPC statt das Geld für #PayToLoose - #Consumeables verballern...

Macht mehr Spaß, lehrt mehr und ist wenigstens nützlich!

youtube.com/watch?v=ZMGEO4URQq

#RetroGaming #ModernVintageComputing #ModernVintageGaming #ModernVintage #RetroGaming #RetroComputing

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-12-09

Ernsthaft: Da will ich den ganzen Kiddies einfach nur nen #Ambernic #RG35XXSP empfehlen, weil der kostet weniger als so'n #Schrott!

youtube.com/watch?v=DsfiCK2W3R

  • Bei #OGame haben sich die Entwickler wenigstens noch die Mühe gemacht nen gutes Game zu entwickeln!

#PayToLoose #PayToWin #Pay2Loose #Pay2Win #P2L #P2W #Enshittification #Greedflation #MobileGames #MobileGaming #Freemium #Trash #TrashGaming #Shovelware #Scam #ScamGames #DisguisedGamblingGame

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-11-17

@hellomiakoda I call it "#PayToLoose" because it's value-removing and worsening the experience for everyone!

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-11-17
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-10-22
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-08-15

@psilocervine I beg to differenciate:

It's just that for #IndieDevs #Marketing is the key to success.

Obviously it doesn't make sense to do a #macOS-exclusive:

  • Some games did #iOS-exclusivity due to lower #Piracy rates than #Android.

  • #AppleArcade is a working way to squeeze revenue out of an old title that is is the sub-$1 bargain bin at Steam and where everyone has closed the books on as in 'nice to have some revenue, but we ain't do much more about it' without going #PayToLoose or shoving it full of #ads and "#Microtransactions"...

I'd say if one's already using a multi-platform-engine then clicking "export to #Mac" is an option.

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-30

@sodiboo @tauon @puppygirlhornypost2 @silly

Worse is even the #Tablet market: #Android #Tablets may be plentyful if you just go sheer listings, but in terms of #MarketShare they are negigible in "the global north" and thus not interesting for #developers to even bother adapting or testing for unless they themselves are #GAFAMs.

  • It's really fucking sad when @thunderbird is one of the few #Apps that I know that properly use Android Tablets' screen estate at all. Allegedly #Microsoft's own Apps do so as well but I myself have no #AndroidTablet and can't bring myself over the gag reflex trying to sideload #OneNote or any other App and having to deal with yet another shitty account...

Whereas on #iPadOS you get AA+ and #IndieGames worth their money by a long shot.

  • Don't even get #developers like @fuchsiii started on how piss-poor premium Apps on #Android sell and how that Tablet segment is essentially dead outside of markets where people can buy a house and a years' worth of necessities for the price of a single #iPad...

And that's why there are only #PayToLoose / #P2L aka. "#PayToWin" / #P2W games for #Android as #piracy is rampant and statistically noone is willing to pay for a #OneTimePurchase #Game on that platform.

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-05-29

@emilianosandri I think the "#DigitalDetox" #cult is a counter-reaction to #screentime being used as a #metric to do #Enshittification, worsen the experience and increasing amounts of shitty #shovelware and #PayToLoose (#P2L) aka. "#PayToWin" (#P2W) games!

What @tomscott parodized in one segment of a video is an actual business of avusing people with harmful patterns!

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-04-22

I think the #LightPhone3 is better than a shitty "#ProducedEwaste" #Android 8.1 brick from China but I don't consider it worth the premium asked [U$D 799 MSRP, U$D 599 preorder] for it.

I think people can get a better experience buying a #degoogled #Fairphone with #eOS and just put #RelaunchX as an #eInk-optimized #launcher on it and have a better option.

  • But I guess given #ForProfitHealthcare in the #USA is expensive I can see why a lot of people would rather buy such a device and sell their old one than seek therapy if they are susceptible to shitty patterns that #developers harness to maximize #screentime and #revenue.

Can't have #doomscrolling or #microtransactions if it doesn't support #NSAbook's #apps or shitty #PayToLoose #games...

What I do have to say is that #MKBHD acknowledges that he isn't the target audience and "that's fine"...

  • I just think that requiring people to sign up to some account just to be able to add/remove #Apps is a major #nope in my book.

I stayed off #GooglePlay for longer than it's being called like that and their "#lightOS" is most likely some tightly locked-down Android...

  • It's just an insultingly high pricetag for < $200 internals and the best feature they have isn't even the phone but offering a "no frills" plan which seems okay (by #USA standards!) but still...

I think people would be more accepting if it was a $299 or even $399 device, but at a price of a @monocles #phone whilst being way less versatile it's just not worth it.

  • Cuz it's not even a super "secure" device or offers something like a "concierge service" where the device price is artifically high to filter out average #WageWorkers without much disposable income...

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