Games as a Service (Off-Topic)

by uberfoop , Seattle-ish, Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 14:17 (3503 days ago) @ rliebherr
edited by uberfoop, Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 14:22

Isn't that what sales is? Convincing people that something is in their best interest? If it's not, and you are convinced that it is, it doesn't mean it was manipulative, it means the salesman was good at his job and you thought the value warranted the price.

You seem to be drawing an equivalence between "the consumer has been made to believe that {thing} is in their best interest" and "{thing} is in the consumer's best interest."

While at the same time recognizing that it sometimes isn't.

Whatever.

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edit:

Whether good or bad, marketing is a process of manipulation. The only real question here is whether the manipulation is against the consumer's best interest. If it is, then the consumer was manipulated against their best interest. I don't see that there's any other way of looking at that, regardless of whether the salesperson was good at their job or not.