WWE Champions General - Despite his claims, DSP is still spending thousands of dollars on the WWE Champions mobile game

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Prince Lotor said:
Wait, am I reading this right? Phil has 577 characters in the game? When his account was first posted here January 2020 he had 200 characters. It's been about 228 weeks since then, so that's 149 more than 1 new character a week the game puts out? And Phil has them ALL?!?

I'm pretty sure I've said it before in this thread, but this is beyond addiction.
This is like Mega Autistic Hyper-fixation. Like after his bloated corpse is found a Medical Examiner is going to conclude, "Well, it looks like his body was more WWE Champions than man at this point."
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I think this has been brought up before, but this is one of their strategies to keep their whales to keep spending.

Every week or month or event or whatever, they add some new characters who are more powerful. The whale then spends a bunch of money gambling on random gatcha pulls or a bunch of money to just buy them. Yes! I got the best sweaty naked guy! Totally worth all that money! I'm a winner!

Next week they introduce a new guy who is even better so the player has to spend a bunch to get them.

You would have to be truly retarded to keep falling for this scam time after time for however many years Phil has been doing this.
 
Sparkletor 2.0 said:
I think this has been brought up before, but this is one of their strategies to keep their whales to keep spending.

Every week or month or event or whatever, they add some new characters who are more powerful. The whale then spends a bunch of money gambling on random gatcha pulls or a bunch of money to just buy them. Yes! I got the best sweaty naked guy! Totally worth all that money! I'm a winner!

Next week they introduce a new guy who is even better so the player has to spend a bunch to get them.

You would have to be truly retarded to keep falling for this scam time after time for however many years Phil has been doing this.
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Sometimes the sweaty man isn't overall better than the usual sweaty men he has on his roster but the event is tailor made so that the new sweaty man makes it a breeze. They create a problem and then sell the solution.
 
Most "new" characters are just variations of the current rooster. Hollywood Hogan, Santa Hogan, Zombie Hogan. You can put a Santa cap on any wrastler and have a NEW character.
 
Big Brown Schlub said:
Sometimes the sweaty man isn't overall better than the usual sweaty men he has on his roster but the event is tailor made so that the new sweaty man makes it a breeze. They create a problem and then sell the solution.
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100% this. If its anything like the gachas ive played before. Its not that they are strictly better. Its just that they will do an event that you need a lot of green attacks, and they have to defend blue. And well I have a lot of people who do one or the other, but I don't have some one who does both, but loook at that. Zombie Santa Hogan to the rescue.

Or if theyre real shady. You can only participate with the certain characters. Most of which are new for this event.
 
Jaracainofthewind said:
Or if theyre real shady. You can only participate with the certain characters. Most of which are new for this event.
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This is the typical model. Marvel Puzzle Quest has been doing it almost from the beginning.

Introduce new character> Have small event showcasing new character with rewards bringing you close to actually recruiting new character (but you still have to get lucky and actually summon the new character)> Have much larger event where new character is "essential" for certain nodes so it is the only way you can maximize your score.
 
Prince Lotor said:
Wait, am I reading this right? Phil has 577 characters in the game? When his account was first posted here January 2020 he had 200 characters. It's been about 228 weeks since then, so that's 149 more than 1 new character a week the game puts out? And Phil has them ALL?!?
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Phil doesn't have every character. I believe there's 593+ characters.

In WWE Champions (at least when I played it briefly many years ago), there's minor spending to get some currency in the game to get started like most people do. But, if you want to unlock the best characters right away for events, that's where it takes insane whaling like Phil does. It's a slippery power creep slope and easy to get trapped in. You have to keep spending to keep up. These games are diabolical.
 
BPD Gunt Rider said:
These games are diabolical.
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And they're designed that way. They are purposefully designed to not just be a "time sync", but also a money sync. Anyone with a history of addiction issues, along with someone that has a history of an addictive personality like Phil, it's easy to get locked in. It's why social media companies like FB, Twitter, etc...are always blasting you with notifications - they call it "brain hacking", which is basically hitting you with likes in exchange for dopamine hits and your attention. Basically, it's the same model casinos use, to keep people dumping their life savings into their machines, in the CHANCE you'll win something big. In gacha, it's the hope of "If I keep putting in more money, well, I'll get that thing I really want."

Phil is going to keep dumping money into gacha. He's always has had an issue with spending money, even going back to when he was living in Bridgeport. I remember he mentioned he used to spend hundreds of dollars on scratchers a week - not just "Oh, I would buy the $1 ones." No. He would drop some serious coin, like $50-100 on scratchers, alone. Also, those damn statues that he had over his mature adult condo, Supercard, Marvel Future Fight, etc...He has an addiction to spending money. It also helps that he has always loved the half naked oily men, so, he doesn't mind dropping $ to get that six star Hogan, brother!

This is also the same idiot that would BRAG on Instagram about his pull on Dragon Ball Z: Dokan Battle after dropping some serious cash in the game.

Point being, when the day Scopey loses the rights to WWE, their servers shut down finally, Phil will move into the next money sync. It's how people with addictive personalities are. When one doesn't do the trick, another one will.
 
Beverly Sutphin said:
Phil is going to keep dumping money into gacha. He's always has had an issue with spending money, even going back to when he was living in Bridgeport. I remember he mentioned he used to spend hundreds of dollars on scratchers a week - not just "Oh, I would buy the $1 ones." No. He would drop some serious coin, like $50-100 on scratchers, alone. Also, those damn statues that he had over his mature adult condo, Supercard, Marvel Future Fight, etc...He has an addiction to spending money. It also helps that he has always loved the half naked oily men, so, he doesn't mind dropping $ to get that six star Hogan, brother!

This is also the same idiot that would BRAG on Instagram about his pull on Dragon Ball Z: Dokan Battle after dropping some serious cash in the game.
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One thing to add here is that it's not just about the spending/gambling hit to Phil - Champions is the only place where he gets the wins and fans he thinks he deserves on his other streams. If you go back a bit further it could also explain why he lied about spending his own money on Hearthstone - with 20/20 hindsight he was probably trying to buy wins but pass it off as skill. Before the gacha bug bit him hard, part of the spending was to flex (i.e. show off just how big and successful he was); you mentioned statues and he also made a point of always buying the priciest thing on the menu when he got dinner during FGC tournies. He's such a picky eater that I'm sure he sometimes ordered something he hated just to make it clear he wasn't a filthy poor person. This goes back to when Top-Haters was active and he complained about how only the ultra-rich could avoid going into credit card debt buying Christmas presents. Hell, even the lotto scratchers were defended as 'an investment' because if he played long enough, he was guaranteed to win!

Or to put it succinctly - part of the reason Phil spends like crazy is because he's sure as shit not going to get anywhere on merit. It's always been some kind of get-rich-quick or get-famous-quick scheme.

Edit to Add: a few words as well as the discussion of meals.

Edit x2: A few years ago he justified his spending by saying he needs to remember to have fun now that he's an adult and that's why he can't even think about saving for now. He wasn't under duress or in the middle of a Champions bender when he said that, he actually believes his lunatic spending habits are normal and appropriate for someone with his income. It's hard to tell where the line between incompetent parenting and addiction falls but it's moot when Phil is too far gone to understand he has a problem. Even in those moments of clarity where he calls gacha 'predatory' what he really means is that he regrets spending on Champions instead of some other equally stupid money sink.
 
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Phil getting roasted by the super card twitter account isn't something i saw coming
 
Crooked 16th said:
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LMAO!!!

Can’t wait to see the dents and tractors bring it up. I’m assuming Phil will do his usual retarded “I have NO IDEA what this is about, but I have a feeling it’s a detractor meme tuh-heh-heh-heh!”

(Probably while secretly thinking it’s a shoutout.)
 
Crooked 16th said:
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I think this is just from the movie. A great line from Raul Julia from an otherwise non memorable film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjZ5I8l32CI

Chun-Li: My father saved his village at the cost of his own life. You had him shot as you ran away. A hero at a thousand paces.
M. Bison: ...I'm sorry. I don't remember any of it.
Chun-Li: You don't remember?!
Bison: For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.
 
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