Temporal Dark Patterns
This game has 22 reported Temporal Dark Patterns. There are 13 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
4 votes
1 votes
4 votes
1 votes
4 votes
1 votes
4 votes
1 votes
3 votes
2 votes
Playing by Appointment
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Being forced to play according to the game's schedule instead of yours.
3 / 2 votes
3 votes
2 votes
5 votes
Monetary Dark Patterns
This game has 32 reported Monetary Dark Patterns. There are 22 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
5 votes
Premium Currency
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Exchange rate between real money and in-game currency disguises the real price of items.
5 / 0 votes
5 votes
Recurring Fee
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Encourages players to play as much as possible to get their money's worth.
5 / 0 votes
4 votes
1 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.
4 / 1 votes
4 votes
1 votes
4 votes
1 votes
4 votes
1 votes
3 votes
1 votes
Anchoring Tricks
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Placing a cheap item next to an expensive item to make it look more affordable.
3 / 1 votes
3 votes
2 votes
5 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 / 5 votes
5 votes
5 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 / 5 votes
Social Dark Patterns
This game has 15 reported Social Dark Patterns. There are 20 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
4 votes
1 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.
4 / 1 votes
4 votes
1 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.
4 / 1 votes
4 votes
1 votes
1 votes
4 votes
Social Pyramid Scheme
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You get a bonus for inviting your friends and then they have to invite their friends.
1 / 4 votes
1 votes
4 votes
1 votes
4 votes
Encourages Anti-Social Behavior
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The game incentivizes players to lie, cheat, or backstab other players to get ahead.
1 / 4 votes
5 votes
Friend Spam / Impersonation
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The game sends spam to your contact list or social media account.
0 / 5 votes
Psychological Dark Patterns
This game has 23 reported Psychological Dark Patterns. There are 12 votes indicating the absense of a dark pattern.
4 votes
1 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.
4 / 1 votes
4 votes
1 votes
Badges / Endowed Progress
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Reluctancy to abandon a partially completed goal, even one forced upon the player.
4 / 1 votes
4 votes
1 votes
Complete the Collection
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The urge to collect all the items, achievements or secrets in a game.
4 / 1 votes
4 votes
1 votes
Variable Rewards
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Unpredictable or random rewards are more addictive than a predictable schedule.
4 / 1 votes
3 votes
2 votes
Aesthetic Manipulations
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Trick questions or toying with emotions or our subconscious desires.
3 / 2 votes
3 votes
2 votes
Optimism and Frequency Biases
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Overestimating the frequency of something because we’ve seen it recently or memorably.
3 / 2 votes
1 votes
4 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 / 4 votes
App Store Ratings
| iOS: | (0.00) with 0 votes. |
Recent Dark Pattern Reviews
Power Creep reported on Dec 30, 2022
Every new limited character is in some way better than the last and can become a new "meta"
Social Obligation / Guilds reported on Dec 30, 2022
You have to complete guild quests to gather points for rewards during and at the start of the next week, you didn't log in for some days and you're in a huge guild you can get kicked, and the guild can just disappear if you don't get enough points by the end of the week (if you failed 1 week, a warning will be displayed the next week, if you fail again then the guild is gone)
Invested / Endowed Value reported on Dec 30, 2022
100%'d every locations and don't want to do it again
Artificial Scarcity reported on Dec 30, 2022
Limited banners which are always better than standard banners, limited as in a sense they're available for a limited time, you can pull as much as you want if you're a whale or saved up a lot
Can't Pause or Save reported on Dec 30, 2022
In open world you gotta find a corner or some empty space somewhere to then go afk/quit to prevent some random mobs beating you while you're loading back in, can't do that in joint operations or pvp though for obvious reasons
Wait To Play reported on Dec 30, 2022
Oh this is extremely prevalent here with timers on chests, and time-gated quests, and some stuff not even loading in which also creates an illusion that there's nothing there when after the time passes the collectible will appear there
Pay to Skip reported on Dec 30, 2022
You can buy a limited amount of vials which replenishes vitality (basically energy for dungeons) and there's no way to skip time-gates even with money, fortunately
Recurring Fee reported on Dec 30, 2022
Battle passes and I guess boxes with loot every once in a while (never bought these so I'm not exactly sure)
Gambling / Loot Boxes reported on Dec 30, 2022
Of course, it's a gacha game
Playing by Appointment reported on Dec 30, 2022
Don't think that this is exactly valid but due to a huge drop of playerbase (on the server I play on at least) it's most of the time very difficult to gather a team to clear joint operation (dungeon basically) while still only having a small chance to get the equipment I want, same applies for world bosses when I want to get a specific matrix (basically gives buffs when you have a certain amount of them applied on the weapon) and it's impossible to gather people for that specific world boss
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