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I love how they are "passing the savings down to us" from a non existing digital item that they set the price of. Ugh. Anyway, this should be absolutely fasci

• elwell 6y ago
  That's a little myopic; it's just another business model. They could instead price an app itself at $99 or whatever is desired to support development, marketing, profit, etc costs, and not have any in-app purchases.
  • input_sh 6y ago
    If anything, game companies are doing exactly the opposite by charging full price for a game (mostly ~$60) and filling them up with in-game purchases anyway. Loot boxes, skins and other cosmetics, battle passes, etc.
• tadzik_ 6y ago
  > a non existing digital item That's a weird thing to read in a place populated by software people.
  • nsilvestri 6y ago
    I'm sure you don't have to look too far to find someone who believes all software should be free (and open source).
    • saagarjha 6y ago
      Sure, but that doesn't mean this is how all software should be…
• chii 6y ago
  > a non existing digital item that they set the price of. how come you would pay for the sounds recorded off musicians, but not the pictures/animations made by game developers?
• grumple 6y ago
  Are you going to work for free or minimum wage for Epic to produce their games and operate their business? Software costs money to produce (lots of it).
• klysm 6y ago
  I'd like to hear the argument for digital things not 'existing'