EA Microtransactions display worrying signs of Evil

We’ve posted about microtransactions before on Objective 514. That post spawned quite a bit of discussion. Most of you seemed cool with paying for stuff - snazzy hats, for instance - as long as the stuff you bought didn’t actually affect game performance.
Well, guess what - the barely-established taboo has already been broken. By EA, [...]

Monday Morning Child Abuse

Via Joystiq: a very, very bad thing to do to your children.

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