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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gunbound was the first game I remember having in game items you could buy with currency that you could also purchase for money. IIRC, they had one currency you could earn in game and another you could buy and each item in the shop had a price for each currency.

I remember thinking what kind of a cash cow that was back then (because wow existed when I first played gunbound and gold farmers also existed at that point and I could see that this model was even better because the owners of the game can just generate things as they need to rather than having to farm it in game) before moving on and never acting on that.