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• menemen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, but Arcades are Arcades.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My point is that they are representative of how gaming used to be. Good on Germany for treating addiction-based money-extractors as what they are though!

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• uienia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not really a microtransactipn as much as a leasing payment

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d say they’re both microtransactions, just one is full-on pay-to-play

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• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You could buy most of those games for console though…

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The cheap downgraded version, yes

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not before consoles existed you couldn’t!

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