17.10.2013 14:05 Uhr, Quelle: Macworld UK

Freemium is the worst thing in the history of gaming

Freemium iPad & iPhone games increasingly dominate the App Store charts. Here's why I hate free things, wish iOS devs would shut up and take my money Call me suspicious, but offer me something for nothing and I'll think it's a scam. (Let's face it, most of the time it is.) This is unfortunate, since we live in the Age of Free, the glorious era in which nobody pays for anything. Well, count me out. This is the generation that decided everyone should be free, and to hell with the consequences. Paying for music is now effectively optional: you can listen to most mainstream tracks on Spotify or YouTube without paying a penny, before even considering the illegal options. New TV episodes and films hit the torrents the moment the credits roll in the US. And if you download your movies illegally, you don't even have to sit through the unskippable anti-piracy warnings. Newspapers put everything online nowadays, and while a few have experimented with paywalls, it's easy to g

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