https://mirror.consumerrights.wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Talk%3AMonetization_overload 2026-05-20T18:59:00Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.44.0 https://mirror.consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Monetization_overload&diff=25216&oldid=prev 2025-09-21T07:53:15Z

<p><span class="autocomment">Avoid excessive detail: </span> don&#039;t just put lists of examples in lots of redundant articles</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 07:53, 21 September 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l50">Line 50:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 50:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&gt;&gt; USE AS EXAMPLE! https://x.com/gwillem/status/1805741224189739170 [[User:JamesTDG|JamesTDG]] ([[User talk:JamesTDG|talk]]) 01:21, 4 April 2025 (UTC)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&gt;&gt; USE AS EXAMPLE! https://x.com/gwillem/status/1805741224189739170 [[User:JamesTDG|JamesTDG]] ([[User talk:JamesTDG|talk]]) 01:21, 4 April 2025 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Avoid excessive detail ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This article had an examples section (which just had some headings at the moment).  However it seemed to heavily overlap the examples sections in very similar articles, like Games as a service, [[Downloadable content]], [[Predatory microtransactions]], etc.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We should coordinate similar/related articles so it is obvious where to put examples, and we don't get lots of little articles with overlapping lists. [[User:Drakeula|Drakeula]] ([[User talk:Drakeula|talk]]) 07:53, 21 September 2025 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wiki:diff:1.41:old-12485:rev-25216:php=table --> </table>

Drakeula https://mirror.consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=Talk:Monetization_overload&diff=12485&oldid=prev 2025-04-04T01:21:13Z

<p><span class="autocomment">Sources to read and maybe integrate: </span> new section</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Sources to read and maybe integrate ==<br /> <br /> For the record, I did NOT read ANY of these yet, I am going SOLELY off of titles just to have a small database of info to read. <br /> <br /> https://www.bringintim.com/corcorans-business-of-law/2015/07/over-monetization<br /> <br /> https://createifwriting.com/pitfalls-of-monetization/<br /> <br /> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetization<br /> <br /> https://www.conradbastable.com/essays/monetization-amp-monopolies-how-the-internet-you-loved-died<br /> <br /> &gt;&gt; FOR FINDING COUNTERPOINTS ONLY! https://alexandremacmillan.com/2019/01/30/focus-on-monetization-not-retention/<br /> <br /> &gt;&gt; NEEDS MIRROR! https://clockwork-labs.medium.com/our-thoughts-on-game-monetization-909976b5287d<br /> <br /> https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/player-retention-should-be-prioritized-over-monetization/83717<br /> <br /> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_monetization<br /> <br /> https://thearrowheadonline.com/4812/opinion/over-monetization-ruins-gaming-industry/<br /> <br /> &gt;&gt; MAY NOT BE RELEVANT! https://greattransition.org/publication/monetizing-nature-taking-precaution-on-a-slippery-slope<br /> <br /> https://digiday.com/media/media-briefing-apple-news-ad-monetization-still-abysmal-for-some/<br /> <br /> https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305120969877?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.7<br /> <br /> https://medium.com/@GWBycer/what-is-dark-side-monetization-3b82347fe19f<br /> <br /> https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/726732-rustys-real-deal-baseball/69017277<br /> <br /> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhz9OXy86a0<br /> <br /> https://www.gamesindustry.biz/when-good-monetization-meets-bad-ethics<br /> <br /> &gt;&gt; USE AS POINT FOR MALICE! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32097752<br /> <br /> https://forum.enlisted.net/en/t/this-game-has-one-of-the-worst-if-not-the-worst-cosmetic-monetization-system-ive-ever-seen-in-a-videogame/133831<br /> <br /> https://economics.td.com/gbl-debt-monetization<br /> <br /> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g16heGLKlTA<br /> <br /> https://m.youtube.com/live/Ku6YJQrZ2cg?t=0s<br /> <br /> https://www.threads.net/@kmarford/post/DA4DkBaPjVq<br /> <br /> https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9768720/<br /> <br /> &gt;&gt; USE AS EXAMPLE! https://x.com/gwillem/status/1805741224189739170 [[User:JamesTDG|JamesTDG]] ([[User talk:JamesTDG|talk]]) 01:21, 4 April 2025 (UTC)</div>

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