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Blizzard's earnings are gonna be insane (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This thing costs as much as a Deluxe edition expansion… but I kinda want it…

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

People buy the skins. They actually spend money on this stuff. Crazy right?!

So what are corporations going to do? They are going to slowly increase the price, see what they can get away with. Paid cosmetics started as microtransactions, $0.01 to $5, but have since ballooned into a $20-50 normality with them being >$250 in some cases. It's ridiculous, but it's all because people actually buy this stuff...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's whale marketing. It's easier to trick one person out of 100 to give you $100 than to trick 100 people to give you $1.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm terribly sorry to tell you this, but it's not just whales anymore, it's a majority of people. Nearly everyone I come across in games has some sort of $20+ skin. The whales just moved on to spending more, but so did everyone else.

The newer generations dont know any different, this is the norm for them.