{"id":1003,"date":"2022-12-14T06:52:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T06:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2023-01-23T21:27:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T21:27:47","slug":"episode-60-which-monetization-tactics-are-truly-predatory-with-elena-petrovskaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Episode 60 \u2013 Which monetization tactics are  truly predatory? (with Elena Petrovskaya)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[Release Date: January 17, 2023]\u00a0This is part 2 of our first two-part exploration of predatory monetization.\u00a0 Our guest, Elena Petrovskaya has been researching player complaints about monetization and has categorized them into 35 different types of potentially predatory monetization techniques \u2013 from pay or wait to the use of battle passes to aggressive advertising and dark interface design patterns.\u00a0 In part 1 we went over all of them.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t listened to it yet, I highly recommend going\u00a0 back and checking it out.\u00a0 This time, we evaluate. \u00a0We ask what is supposed to be <em>predatory<\/em> in these techniques, which ones we think are not actually problematic, which ones we think are particularly problematic, and what, if anything, should be done about them in terms of regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/1moFZIxChBI6CdHAJweCYV?utm_source=generator&amp;theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Release Date: January 17, 2023]\u00a0This is part 2 of our first two-part exploration of predatory monetization.\u00a0 Our guest, Elena Petrovskaya has been researching player complaints<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,56,51,49,214],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-podcast","tag-gamedev","tag-gaming","tag-microtransactions","tag-monetization","tag-predatory-monetization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/60-1-1-1.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethicsandvideogames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}