Board Thread:Frustrations and venting/@comment-11784273-20130919192347/@comment-13248161-20130920110415

Ranoake wrote: The game is designed to be addictive, plain and simple. This event is a bad example of that, but the boss events are better. There is a lot of applied psychology in these games. You are tempted to spend money because of that. They are taking advantage of your human nature.

"OMG did Ran just bash Mobage? It Can't be! He is a secret spy!"

I almost spent money once but managed to resist. That said, I play constantly so I am still addicted, just not as much as some. During OSF, after I made all my rotten Starscream bot ruby pulls on the first night, I could really feel the pull of that 2000-coin Shockwave bridge. It would just be this one time, my brain raced, it would make up for all the rotten luck, it's just $20, you can easily afford that...

I made myself close the game and sleep on it, though my brain wouldn't let go of that thought for a while. In the morning I realized how close Mobage came to getting me.

Dangerous stuff, these micro-transaction games.