2048: The Nihilistic Face Of Free To Play

Welcome to the future, where being unselfish is considered evil, consumption is the only good, and sharing is a crime.

As Franz Kafka wrote, "we live in an age which is so possesed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime."

I must be pure evil and morally deprived because I liked 2048 and even worse, I use linux, a free operating system that clearly copied ideas from paid operating systems for the sole purpose of devaluing them

I would have most likely never purchased and played Three's if it weren't for 2048. I almost never download mobile games, even more rarely do I browse for mobile games. This underscores the importance of giving fair attribution to your inspirations as was done in the case of many 2048 games with a credit to Three's. Having said that, I thought Three's was terrible and regretted my purchase. Maybe someone can write an article about how paid games are evil for that reason or just not make wild assumptions like these in the first place.

> What isn’t alright by me is a game that releases for free and makes no attempt to make money,

This article is a good candidate for Poe's Law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

For the Onion version, I recommend the headline:

"The very idea that someone would put out any content for free is appalling," writes blogger.