Games are an Expensive, Time Stealing Nightmare | Salari

🔵Get an exclusive Surfshark Black Friday deal! Enter promo code SALARITV to get up to 6 additional months for free at https://surfshark.deals/SALARITV 💜Support the channel on Patreon:   / salari   ☕Make a one-time donation through Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/salari 🎤Watch on Twitch:   / jsalari   👨‍👩‍👧‍👧Come hang out with us on Discord:   / discord   🌤️Follow me on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/salari.bsky.... As the games industry has grown, so have the ways in which it attempts to get money from its customers. Whether that's through DLC, microtransactions, loot boxes, battle passes, or anything else you can imagine. These practices have been designed from the ground up to exploit player's fears of inadequacy and missing out, to the point where they feel it's necessary to make substantial financial investments to feel as though their commitment to a product is worthwhile. However, in more recent times, video game publishers and developers have been after something far more valuable - your time, and in an industry where there's a new live service game launching seemingly every week, there will naturally be winners and losers. What we don't speak about enough, is how dire the cost of losing it. Watch ‪@PeopleMakeGames‬ excellent videos about Valve's attitude towards skin gambling, and the inner-workings of the company    • How Valve is Profiting from Steam's Back-D...      • What's It Really like Working at Valve?   Due to lower engagement, the Boost Bus is still on hiatus. I made a brief video about why:    • Where is the Boost Bus?   If you're a content creator/artist and want a ride on the Boost Bus, then please email me at [email protected] with the subject: Boost Please be sure to include a brief bio about yourself, what you want promoting (including links to your work - if it's art then please ensure it's hi-res so it can be used in videos), along with your pronouns. I won't be able to reply to emails due to the volume, but rest assured I read them all, so please do not send more than one email. 🚌 If you'd like to help improve the production quality of my channel and streams (or treat our cats to a gift), here's my begging list: https://shorturl.at/yzGHX