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Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/now-you-can-buy-in-game-dlc-and-pay-it-off-later/1100-6532906/

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  • SheeEttin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Putting everything on credit is a great plan if you expect the world to end very soon.

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  • Drekaridill@feddit.is ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is fucking dystopian

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t finance DLC purchases. If you are that bad off for money, you need to just play the games you already own.

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    • otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or just don’t finance any non-essential purchase. The idea of financing anything smaller than a couple thousand dollars is just wild to me.

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      • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        What’s also kinda wild is how those plans often have 0 interest rate as long as you’re able to pay the installments on time. Which means in theory you MAKE money by using them because you can earn interest with that money in the meantime.

        It ALSO means they know the people using those services are so bad with money that they can sustain themselves (and make a nice profit) purely by their clients failing to pay on time and then selling the debt to debt collectors. It’s absolutely disgusting how predatory this is, making their money mostly on the people who’d need such a system the most (and to a smaller amount, on people who don’t care).

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    • tonyn@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      …or go make some money instead.

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  • lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gotta pay off that Doordash burrito first before dropping $50 on skins.

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    • proper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve seen this, also recently popped on on car insurance payment. definitely feels like more and more people are going to end up in debt prison soon.

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Now I can afford delivery apps too!

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  • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What is the collateral on a digital product purchase?

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    • Ing0R@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Your soul!

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      • proper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        just split the payments over 7 sons of your 7 sons

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just what my relaxing escapist hobby needed, debt.

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  • dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    If everybody has to finance their purchases, something might be fundamentally wrong with the economy…

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