You can soon pay off in-game items in four installments.
  • besselj@lemmy.caEnglish
    25·
    1 month ago

    If a game company tries to convince customers to finance DLC or microtransactions, their products are probably shit

  • brot@feddit.orgEnglish
    14·
    1 month ago

    This really is a new low - Get people hooked on your game with addictive mechanics. Suck the money out of them. When they’re broke, drive them into debt

    • lathEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Not a new low, it’s an old low applied in new ways.

  • BruisedMoose@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    1 month ago

    And I read the other day that “buy now pay later” loans will be hitting your credit report now, so I’m sure this will definitely help make America great again. What could go wrong?

  • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    now one BNPL provider has announced a deal with a gaming company to allow people to finance in-game purchases.

    Great, another data leech for marketing machine

    offers interest-free biweekly payment plans

    Uh-huh. I wonder, what do they monetize on, if the debt is interest-free. Surely this is only to grow user base. No basket analysis at all…