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CD Projekt Red still 'don't see a place for microtransactions' in singleplayer games (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

submitted 7 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know where the term micro came from because $20 skins are not a "microtransaction". Hell the $4 microcontrollers I just bought from Aliexpress weren't a microtransaction. "Micro" makes me think in the sub-$1 range or so.

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

The idea was sold as being one whereby we would pay pennies/cents for a skin someone had designed, yet it's turned into dollars (tens or hundreds of) instead, with giants taking huge advantage of us.