Hello everyone.
As you may know, I have created a five-part investigative series into the murky world of freemium gaming which is being published by Exclusively Games. Episodes will be published at intervals over the coming weeks.
In this, the second part of the series we investigate the size of this multi-billion $/£ a year industry and the questionable methods it uses to attain such astronomical wealth.
We also uncover how freemium games manipulate and abuse the reward centres of the brain to make them as addictive as possible to keep players playing – and paying – long term.
Feel free to take a look if you are interested. If you have any freemium gaming horror stories you would like to share please do. If you would prefer to do so anonymously please PM me – confidentiality assured.
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