Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 14 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 2 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
2 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
2 / 0 votes
3 votes
3 votes
3 votes
3 votes
1 votes
1 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 18 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 6 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
3 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
3 / 0 votes
3 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.
3 / 0 votes
3 votes
1 votes
2 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
2 / 0 votes
2 votes
2 votes
1 votes
2 votes
1 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
2 / 1 votes
2 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.
0 / 2 votes
2 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 / 2 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 15 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 4 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
3 votes
Social Pyramid Scheme
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You get a bonus for inviting your friends and then they have to invite their friends.
3 / 0 votes
2 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 / 0 votes
3 votes
3 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.
3 / 0 votes
3 votes
1 votes
2 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
1 / 2 votes
2 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
0 / 2 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 11 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 3 votes indicating the absence of a dark pattern.
2 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.
2 / 0 votes
2 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
2 / 0 votes
2 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
2 / 0 votes
3 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
3 / 0 votes
1 votes
1 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.
1 / 1 votes
1 votes
1 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
1 / 1 votes
1 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
0 / 1 votes
App Store Ratings
| Google Play: | (4.30) with 444,135 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Playing by Appointment reported on Oct 1, 2022
Daily Rewards.
Competition reported on Oct 1, 2022
The social hiearchy between rares and unrares.
Fear of Missing Out reported on Oct 1, 2022
Item worth changes every update, which happens every month. If you dont grind every day, you might lose an amazing trade or your item's value might drop significantly.
Aesthetic Manipulations reported on Oct 1, 2022
Making items cool so that you grind for them.
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior reported on Oct 1, 2022
Artificial scarcity is made to keep a specific demographic of people (children, teenagers and some adults) addicted to the game in hopes of them spending money on it. This type of game design can create a toxic hiearchy between rares and unrares, can encourage scamming, discrimination and hacking, which in consequence can be dentrimental to a minor's mental health.
Reciprocity reported on Oct 1, 2022
Trading is a mechanism in the game to worsen artificial scarcity and grinding. It forces children to grind so that they can reach the worth of the rigged economy to get the items that they want. It goes hand in hand with grinding and artificial scarcity.
Wait To Play reported on Oct 1, 2022
Paintballs (?) need atleast 30 minutes if I recall correctly to grow so that you can fight against phantoms, which leads to getting coins, then buying sapphire potions to trade for rare items - it all comes down to artificial scarcity and grinding.
Artificial Scarcity reported on Oct 1, 2022
Removing items from stores for years on end so that they become rare and valuable. The game manipulates children into grinding by making the cool items be gone forever, and the only way to gain those items is by following the rigged economy made by the players themselves.
Grinding reported on Oct 1, 2022
I remember playing this game last year. It was such an unfun experience. My goal was to get highest mystical spiked collar in AJPW, and I would grind every single day just to trade up and get that dream item. I lost a bunch of good trades, but I managed to reach a 2.5 forest boot worth in just 6 months. The minimum demand price for the myth spike was 15 forest. If I went with that pace, I would've gotten 15 boots in approx. 36 months, or 3 years .
Infinite Treadmill reported on Jun 3, 2022
Either you're doing pack runs (collect-a-thon minigame) to gain exp or you're waiting for a nature collectible to spawn and hope that you get a decent item to wear/trade.
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