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its honestly difficult to think of anything more economically wasteful than video game microtransactions. convincing players to spend both inordinate amounts of their time and money on some gay looking shit in a game is the greatest scam that has ever come about, and its disgustingly popular for some reason. and of course microtransactions like these disproportionately affect younger people, who are already disproportionately poorly affected by economic circumstances - the economically worst off demographic of people are the most likely to be victimized by predatory microtransactions.
not a big fan of china or the chinese or really anything in that corner of the globe but im less a fan of greedy companies that provide negative societal value stealing from neurodivergents and shut-ins.
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Taxes on homeless projects. Taxes spent on anything other than policing and road repair. That waste is about 40% of the economy and is in your face everyday, but you couldn't see it because gaming microtransactions are a dire threat to overall well-being. You might just be the biggest r-slur of rdrama.
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This is exaxtly why I don't have a 401K. Why should my money go to some future version of myself when I can spend it on cars and guns now?
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We could save so much money just by simply shooting the homeless. Or simply just beating them to death so you can save a dollar on the bullet.
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Just don't be an r-slur?
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Send me 1000 DC.
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you and i might not be r-slurs who buy this shit, but some third guy _is_ an r-slur and buys all of it, meaning that its commercially successful and then gets pushed on to us, too. clearly the only solution is to find the r-slurs who buy microtransactions and beat them with pipes.
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And that'll fund the game and the company who will crank out more shit that g*mers want. You're definitely r-slurred.
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any game company that relies on microtransactions as a revenue stream has evolved past needing money to fund development and hosting and instead is looking to pay shareholders. if the gambling machine is what makes money, why the frick would the developers waste money on content that doesnt contribute to that revenue stream?
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I'm not reading all that because you're r-slurred.
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How do you think they fund Continuous updates?
They don't work for free.
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The trick is they dont make sequels and barely make updates.
With the exception of maybe TF2 (and even that's been a zombie game coasting on microtransactions for years now) more reliance on microtransactions = less updates than when battle passes and sequels were a thing. For a recent example compare Battlefield V to Battlefield 1.
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No, not really. Aside from day 1 patches it was fricking very common for games to go un-updated, if you actually bother to think. A fricking game like CoD4 received only 7 patches for it's life cycle. It's certainly not comparable to how games updates are fricking today, with massive influxes of maps, characters and weapons spanning many years. Just look at the fricking current big Ubisoft games, like Siege and For Honor. Even the fricking Asian markets that used to make you buy an entirely new version of the fricking game when they made a fricking new version have started just doing free updates. The fricking shift towards the fricking more update, less expansion centric focus was fricking 2015-2016 so Battlefield 1 isn't exactly the fricking best example if you ask me.
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They released tons of new content for CoD4, it's called every CoD game since then. There's more Call of Duty content than R6 content, because CoD isn't reliant on (but still has) micro transactions.
Rainbow 6 Siege has 24 maps total. That's less than in Battlefield 1 alone, and over almost an entire decade.
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If games don't pay shareholders why should anyone provide capital for you're next game, gaymer?
palestinian lives matter not
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Just sounds like seeing those items makes you jealous.
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I don't care about microtransactions at all as long as they are cosmetic only. I single player games they are even less of a problem since I always pirate them.
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There is nothing more important than separating r-slurs from their money. Imagine they were able to pool their resources and elect a Twitch streamer as governor.
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it's entirely digital as well. You're spending money on something that can be instantly generated. It's not creating any value.
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is it though
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