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Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 32 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 27 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
8 votes
1 votes
8 votes
1 votes
6 votes
3 votes
4 votes
3 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
4 / 3 votes
5 votes
3 votes
1 votes
8 votes
8 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 49 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 44 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
9 votes
9 votes
Pay to Win
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A player can spend real money to purchase something that gives them an advantage in the game.
9 / 0 votes
7 votes
1 votes
8 votes
1 votes
6 votes
3 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
6 / 3 votes
5 votes
2 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
5 / 2 votes
3 votes
6 votes
1 votes
7 votes
Accidental Purchases
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Making it easy to accidentally spend money with no confirmation or ability to undo or refund the action.
1 / 7 votes
1 votes
7 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
1 / 7 votes
8 votes
9 votes
Waste Aversion
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Capped inventory forces you to destroy items or upgrade inventory. Also, having small amounts of left over premium currency.
0 / 9 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 22 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 39 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
9 votes
6 votes
2 votes
Fear of Missing Out
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If you stop playing you'll miss out on something or be left behind and unable to catch up.
6 / 2 votes
2 votes
6 votes
Social Pyramid Scheme
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You get a bonus for inviting your friends and then they have to invite their friends.
2 / 6 votes
2 votes
7 votes
Social Obligation / Guilds
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To avoid letting down your friends, you are obligated to play when you don't want to.
2 / 7 votes
2 votes
7 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
2 / 7 votes
1 votes
8 votes
9 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
0 / 9 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 41 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 19 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
8 votes
Invested / Endowed Value
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Having already spent time and money to improve your status in the game, it's difficult to throw it away.
8 / 0 votes
7 votes
1 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
7 / 1 votes
7 votes
2 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
7 / 2 votes
6 votes
3 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
6 / 3 votes
5 votes
3 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
5 / 3 votes
4 votes
5 votes
Illusion of Control
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The game cheats or hides information to make you think you're better than you actually are.
4 / 5 votes
4 votes
5 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
4 / 5 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (4.00) with 53,432 votes. |
| Google Play: | (4.35) with 1,587,376 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Pay to Win reported on Jul 5, 2021
Hearthstone has a lot of pride about how well players can supposedly do in the game without spending any money, but spending money definitely helps.
Artificial Scarcity reported on Jul 5, 2021
Pre-ordering a new expansion gives you a much better value than waiting for it to come out. Many cosmetic items are only available for a limited time.
Infinite Treadmill reported on Jul 5, 2021
No more so than for a typical multiplayer experience.
Daily Rewards reported on Jul 5, 2021
Doesn't have to be every single day, but if you go 3 days without playing you are missing out on rewards.
Optimism and Frequency Biases reported on Jul 5, 2021
In-game notifications when friends: -Obtain a legendary card. -Finish an Arena or Duels run (with win/loss numbers). -Achieve a new rank. Important to note though these notifications only appears WHILE playing - you will not receive notifications outside of the game. Also they recently fixed a glitch that caused these notifications to appear more frequently than intended.
Anchoring Tricks reported on Jul 5, 2021
Price per card pack goes down the more you spend at once - only when spending real life money. Pre-order bundles are especially guilty of this, see Artificial Scarcity.
Badges / Endowed Progress reported on Jul 5, 2021
Only recently added lol.
Invested / Endowed Value reported on Jul 5, 2021
It is a collectible card game.
Complete the Collection reported on Jul 5, 2021
Cosmetic rewards for owning every card in an expansion. Also only recently added.
Gambling / Loot Boxes reported on Jul 5, 2021
Loot Boxes are a necessary part of how Collectible Card Games operate, but that doesn't make them not loot boxes.
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