• KaiReeve@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Before WotC there was Bethesda trying to make a profit on community mods. These companies love to recycle bad ideas.

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      1 year ago

      Like microtransactions, they just need a single win to get all of them through the door forever. The horse armor wasn’t the first microtransaction, but it was what normalized it in people’s mind, and the fight was lost for customers.