You didn’t learn budgeting in one go. I learned it in part by not being able to afford every video game I wanted. Part of how this generation of kids will learn budgeting is by only having a finite amount of V-Bucks and not being able to get every skin that they want, but they’ll keep playing Fortnite, and they’ll keep seeing new skins they want.
You don’t need vbucks to play the game or any of the modes. When I was little I wanted money to buy games I couldn’t play without money.
And I guess I did understand budgeting since I had to save money to be able to buy games. And also learned pirating to try to further extend my budget when I was little.
I think people underestimate kids and how quickly they catch onto the basic concepts of money and time required to acquire what they want.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
You just keep changing excuses to keep defending buying vbucks. First it was kids don’t want to be left out of playing games. Then I pointed out vbucks isn’t necessary to play Fortnite. Then you said kids don’t have impulse control. I pointed out kids are capable of budgeting. You keep shifting goal posts.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
That was the same set of goal posts.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Maybe kids are earning vbucks by doing chores?
I too think its pants-on-head retarded to buy skins, but i remember being a kid and only wanting a certain toy because its popular right now. The amount of kids who wanted pokemon cards but didnt know how to play was unreal.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
The whole discussion started because guy I talked to defended it saying kids want to play games with their friends and I point out vbucks isn’t a requirement to play Fornite and even gives it for free. And they just keep shifting goal posts from there pointing to kids not getting concept of budgeting and so on. They just wanted to defend rhe existence of vbucks.