When a video game company deliberately introduces a problem into their game so they can sell you the solution as opposed to designing the game to be played without paying up.
Solution selling can manifest in many different forms such as:
• Paying to skip long monotonous grinds
• Paying to repair fragile equipment such as weapons or armor
• Paying for transport, so you don't have to waste your time walking
• Paying to skip a difficult level/boss
• Paying to revive your character without losing progress or items
• Paying to progress at a rewarding pace
• Paying for increased inventory space
All of these issues can be solved very easily by better game design and just respecting the player's time and money.
Solution selling can manifest in many different forms such as:
• Paying to skip long monotonous grinds
• Paying to repair fragile equipment such as weapons or armor
• Paying for transport, so you don't have to waste your time walking
• Paying to skip a difficult level/boss
• Paying to revive your character without losing progress or items
• Paying to progress at a rewarding pace
• Paying for increased inventory space
All of these issues can be solved very easily by better game design and just respecting the player's time and money.
The game could've been good, if it wasn't for all the god damn solution selling!
Paid repair kits? That's just solution selling.
Paid repair kits? That's just solution selling.
by Lonke November 25, 2019
Selling sand is a slang term for selling Molly also known as Ecstasy. This is because in it’s pure form it tends to look like brownish sand.
by prizs September 23, 2019
someone who changes who they are/ style for approval or popularity of a person/and or people that can not be pleased and/or is never satisfied with them-self's.
Jen cheated Bob with Tom because Jen wasn't satisfied with bob and wanted more, so Bob study's Tom and switches up to a character similar to the Tom and try's to get her back, a sell out.
by cwise July 21, 2011
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1. In the eyes the very newest members of any band's fanbase: any band after any album they release; that same band once they work hard and earn the respect of a large-scale audience by giving the world music various types of people can enjoy. "HOW DARE THEY BE SUCCESSFUL? THE SELFISHNESS OF IT ALL! I WANT THEM TO BE BANKRUPT AND MISERABLE AND COMPLETELY UNKNOWN, THAT WAY I CAN RECOMMEND THEM TO PEOPLE WHO TELL ME 'Nah, I'll pass.' !"
2. A nonsensical term slung about by high school students to describe bands they have no true interest in (only their t-shirts) after the band released an album said fans were not even born early enough to experience. see also: False aging/wisdom/experience in a teenaged body
3. A band that truly is only in the music industry for the money see also: Metallica/Slayer/Tool/Avenged Sevenfold
4. A fan who is truly only in a fanbase for the sheer trendiness.
2. A nonsensical term slung about by high school students to describe bands they have no true interest in (only their t-shirts) after the band released an album said fans were not even born early enough to experience. see also: False aging/wisdom/experience in a teenaged body
3. A band that truly is only in the music industry for the money see also: Metallica/Slayer/Tool/Avenged Sevenfold
4. A fan who is truly only in a fanbase for the sheer trendiness.
STEVE: "My kid brother's really into Metallica."
GREG: "Really? That sounds rich! Hey Alex, what did you think of Death Magnetic?"
ALEX: "Oh my fucking God, don't even get me started on that bunch of sell out nerds with a clear opera fetish! Trust me man, I was at their very first show back in nineteen-eighty-whatever and take my word for it: they haven't made a good album since Ride the Lightning, which was WAY better on vinyl, by the way!"
GREG: "Um, Alex, you were born in 1996. Records are obsolete and no one even makes record players anymore."
ALEX: "What's you point, faggot?"
GREG: "Really? That sounds rich! Hey Alex, what did you think of Death Magnetic?"
ALEX: "Oh my fucking God, don't even get me started on that bunch of sell out nerds with a clear opera fetish! Trust me man, I was at their very first show back in nineteen-eighty-whatever and take my word for it: they haven't made a good album since Ride the Lightning, which was WAY better on vinyl, by the way!"
GREG: "Um, Alex, you were born in 1996. Records are obsolete and no one even makes record players anymore."
ALEX: "What's you point, faggot?"
by Zalgo the Destroyer October 23, 2010
What envious underachievers call artists, writers, actors, or musicians when they no longer conform to their expectations.
by Killing Kittens June 5, 2004
Your selling
by Ice cheese November 29, 2018