You know, for a community of hobbyists that hate micro-transactions and wish they'd go away from gaming, y'all sure do a lot of micro-transactions. If I was a game developer trying to make a profit,

You know, for a community of hobbyists that hate micro-transactions and wish they'd go away from gaming, y'all sure do a lot of micro-transactions. If I was a game developer trying to make a profit, the direction is clear.

https://www.techspot.com/news/107506-microtransactions-accounted-58-pc-gaming-revenue-last-year.html

#gaming #videogames #PCGaming

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drunkosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Those that complain and those that spend money on mtx are two separate Venn diagrams with no overlap Nice bait tho

renwillis@mstdn.social · 1 pts · 1y

@drunkosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com "nice bait tho" lol. Save that "wit" for the gamer forums.

If there's one lesson here - it's the massive disconnect between online loud people and reality. The same with politics, with so much. So it goes in gaming.

matt@isfeeling.social · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

@renwillis@mstdn.social Yeah…I'm certainly not a fan of game prices creeping up, but exploitative microtransactions definitely rile me up more.

renwillis@mstdn.social · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)
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Battle_Masker@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

that last one PLUS it's like makeup. it invented a new problem to sell a solution

irishPotato@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Fairly certain it’s the latter + kids