Then there are the games I’ve played that have been so clumsy and cumbersome in the way that they demand money that they’ve sucked any enjoyment out of playing them. And I’ve played quite a few that I’ve been more than happily to sink tens of dollars into, because they were absolutely worth it. I’ve played many games that have given me hours of enjoyment gratis. The crux of the matter is, of course, just how overt and obstructive the game’s effort is to persuade you to part with your cash versus the level of entertainment it offers. Yet while lunch can be an edible Trojan horse for many things, in the case of a game there’s but one – to liberate a steady stream of shekels from your back pocket: the more, the merrier. Both are there for the taking, but both have an ulterior motive. If there’s no such thing as a free lunch, it stands to reason that there’s also no such thing as a free game. At first it seemed like some kind of subconscious, knee-jerk word association between that oft-used phrase and the fact that I was thinking about Dungeon Keeper being a free-to-play game.īut when I thought about it some more, I realized what my brain was up to.
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The moment I started to think about how to begin this review, the phrase, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” popped into my head. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.
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