Comment on Report: 82% of US gamers made an in-game purchase in freemium titles in 2023

• Psychodelic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That doesn’t make sense here, does it? The product is the digital skins or whatever

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  • zigmus64@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Makes perfect sense. Those free games are generally funded by advertisements. You are the product being provided to the people paying for the ad time.

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    • Psychodelic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just realized you must be talking about mobile games or something. lol

      I was thinking of the finals or even warzone. Completely free games where you can just pay for a skin for your gun. Seems pretty great to me. I never pay for another COD game while then some poor addicted souls pay for everything they can. I mean, it works out pretty well for everyone… except those people, since they end up paying way more than what a game used to cost

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