• CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    I don’t know where the term micro came from because $20 skins are not a “microtransaction”. Hell the $4 microcontrollers I just bought from Aliexpress weren’t a microtransaction. “Micro” makes me think in the sub-$1 range or so.

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      7 months ago

      The idea was sold as being one whereby we would pay pennies/cents for a skin someone had designed, yet it’s turned into dollars (tens or hundreds of) instead, with giants taking huge advantage of us.