This is fucking dystopian
Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later
Submitted 2 weeks 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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Drekaridill@feddit.is 2 weeks ago
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gotta pay off that Doordash burrito first before dropping $50 on skins.
proper@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
DivineDev@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Ahhh, prison for people who can't pay their debt, where they accrue even more of it since they can't work... Could this possibly go wrong?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Now I can afford delivery apps too!
SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Putting everything on credit is a great plan if you expect the world to end very soon.
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
So it’s a great plan, then! Let’s go!
ech@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Only if you’re right.
dan1101@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What is the collateral on a digital product purchase?
Ing0R@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Your soul!
proper@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
just split the payments over 7 sons of your 7 sons
dan1101@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m gonna need all the loot boxes for that!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Achievements.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The era of financing gooner skins for your waifu has arrived
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It always existed with credit cards.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Just lemme buy it with the money enemies drop when I kill them. 😬
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
I want to cry but there aren’t enough tears.
dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 2 weeks ago
If everybody has to finance their purchases, something might be fundamentally wrong with the economy…
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just what my relaxing escapist hobby needed, debt.
boaratio@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t do this.
roserose56@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
What for? This is ridicules! This is not a housing market, this is game market! Don’t even bother.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t finance DLC purchases. If you are that bad off for money, you need to just play the games you already own.
otacon239@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks 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).
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Financing can actually be an incredibly good idea if you expect inflation to increase at a greater rate than the interest. It literally saves you effective money.
That said, it also tends to involve a credit pull (which hurts said interest rates) and becomes a monthly bill.
So if you can afford the monthly bill AND it is a meaningfully large purchase AND you have every reason to expect inflation to increase more than the interest rate? It is actually a pretty good idea.
For even a 200 dollar battle pass: no, it is not.
tonyn@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
…or go make some money instead.
ech@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Thanks, I’m rich.