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Comment on Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union

I winner of this will on practice or an end to the scummy practice of badly sized in game currency pack sizes, one of the many scummy techniques they use to make people spend more.

Let’s say the thing most players buy costs 3 ingame currency (I love that my autocorrect made „insane currency“ out of that). The smallest pack you can buy is 5. So, the player buys 5, spends 3 and has 2 left with which nothing to do. If they want another 3, they have to buy 5 more. Spend 3, have 4 left. Spend 3, have 1 left. The cycle continues.

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Oka@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Or, just stop games from selling in-game content?

Every skin is a texture or model swap, every “exclusive” always exists in the files, every in-game currency is fabricated.

Games try really really hard to make you pay for something that is copy and pasted

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- gamer@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This is one of those radical ideas that people are terrified of, because it would kill the business models of a lot of massive corporations. It’s easy to spin that as the death of the game industry, rather than what it is: the death of a business practice.
  
  Like the laws against underage smoking probably wiped out billions in shareholder value, but that was objectively a good thing. Banning (or heavily regulating) in-game purchases would also be a good thing, no matter how much it affects existing players. If it leads to the death of name brands like EA, Ubisoft, etc. then who cares? The market will readjust and new players who were able to adapt to the changed environment will take their place.
  
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- Fluke@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Artificial scarcity in it’s barest form.
  
  The fact that even some people think this shit is acceptable is very telling of how far we have yet to go, psychologically speaking, as a species.
  
  Monkeys in fucking trousers.
  
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  - drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    If anything gaming culture has regressed, at least in this aspect.
    
    Remember when the $2.50 Oblivion horse armor DLC was considered to be a ridiculous?
    
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    NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Remember when the $2.50 Oblivion horse armor DLC was considered to be ridiculous?
    
    Blizzard now sells mounts at the price of 90 EUR, ~1.5x the base price of the game itself…
    
    TBF, it’s a useful mount, but 90 fucking Euros…
    
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