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Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union (ec.europa.eu)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If anything gaming culture has regressed, at least in this aspect.

Remember when the $2.50 Oblivion horse armor DLC was considered to be ridiculous?

[–] NostraDavid 1 points 1 month 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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