South Park on freemium games

[Kong Wen]

The latest episode of South Park satirizes the phenomenon of freemium or free-to-play games that milk cash out of unsuspecting dupes through microtransactions, or worse, by tricking kids. If you're in the US, you can watch the whole episode for free on the South Park site. (The rest of us have to resort to other means.)

I generally like these "topical" episodes of South Park. Since this episode touches on an issue that's been big in gaming for a while now (and about which one of our very own members and contributors has developed a satirical game of his own, Monetizing Children), I thought it could be of interest to some here.

[Jelly]

Good episode!

It's nice to see some hilarious criticism pointed toward game developers in this kind of context.

The scenes in the end with Stan having a conversation on his bed were really sweet.

Anyway, off to play some Hearthstone, ciao!

[The Shoemaker]

I've been seeing more and more pokes at free to play games in media lately. I think it was in the Simpsons X Futurama where Homer goes to the future and tries to get everyone to explain how free to play makes sense.

[Jelly]

The latest episode about Magic the Gathering had me laughing so hard..

They're really targeting the geek market this season, with episodes about free to play, drones, magic the gathering, kickstarter/startups, virtual reality and the Uber car service.