Then I would have an easier time of getting past this level. I am feeling really frustrated because I am having trouble

I did itĪ few times after being stuck for weeks because I was frustrated I'm trying really hard not to spend money on games. The authors also quote a couple of free-form responses for additional insight/confirmation: Self-control was measured in this paper in a uniform manner using the (highly cited/used) Self-Control Scale (SCS) from Tangney et al. So in a game where the microtransaction are mainly a way to speed-up the game (a fairly typical freemium design), the people that pay are those with poor self-control who get crushed by the game's non-paying pace and repetitiveness. Hand, purchases and self-control levels were not significantlyĬorrelated with the amount of time people play, game addiction, Is correlated with lower levels of self-control. Our study reveals that the amount players spend on in-app purchases The relationship between Candy Crush Saga™ players’ in-app purchases and self-control': I found one paper specifically about Candy Crush, 'Self-Control in Casual Games: But I think the research on that is too limited to draw firm conclusions on this aspect.

There's one cluster-analysis paper suggesting that the motivations of the high-spenders (and thus possibly other parts of their psychological profile) are different than those of the average spender. There are probably not enough high spenders in such games to reflect their behavior in the (unweighted) average player. That is, games which rely on frustration to get the player to spend money (like Candy Crush) tend to obtain money from players with low tolerance for frustration games which are more related to gambling (like 'social casino' games) tend to get money from players who score high on gambling-problem scales and so forth. Summary: From the few papers I've looked at, microtransaction-based games tend to work as suspected/designed.

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