It's pretty obvious and well known that if you disassociate the cost of something from the actual monetary value, people find it harder to conflate the two. Th

It's pretty obvious and well known that if you disassociate the cost of something from the actual monetary value, people find it harder to conflate the two. This is the reason that you didn't buy a $20 XBox game, you brought a game with 1,700 Microsoft points. You don't buy this skin for a game for $14, that's way too expensive! Who would pay that! However when it's on sale for 3,200 Riot points? That's a great deal! If you wanted to strike a death blow to the micropayments industry you'd just need to force them to put the actual monetary price against each loot box/gem bundle/whatever rather than obscuring it with a made up currency that nobody can evaluate cost against.