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A new report has found that 82% of American gamers made an in-game purchase in freemium titles last year.

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[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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