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I just want to be able to buy skins for me cars outside of the Rocket League store. I don’t appreciate the Rocket League monopoly on rocket league skins.

• wayneftw 6y ago
  I would too if half of the people in the US depended on Rocket League skins to work and live their lives.
  • cwhiz 6y ago
    160 million people dependent on the App Store for their livelihood. Such a tragic outcome.
    • wayneftw 6y ago
      Care to expand past pointless sarcasm? There's a reason we have anti-trust laws. You're comparing a company that sells video game items to less than a few million people to a company that practically controls the digital life of hundreds of millions of people.
      • cwhiz 6y ago
        Absurd hyperbole is answered with absurd sarcasm. Half the US? Come now. If you don’t like Apple you can switch to Android, Lineage OS, or other open source variants. You have dozens and dozens of phones to choose from. If you don’t like Rocket League you can switch to...? Which one has the monopoly again?
        • wayneftw 6y ago
          Oh, I meant half the smartphone using population of the US, which is around 280 million people. It's a fact that the iPhone has half that market and that number is only growing since they also have somewhere between 80 and 90 percent of the youth market in the US. Rocket League skins have no comparison here, whatsoever. Just wanted to make sure that everybody is aware of that.
          • manicdee 6y ago
            Are you basing that on phones sold or phones actually in use?
            • wayneftw 6y ago
              It's actually both. Among my own customers, it's way more than half. [0] https://macdailynews.com/2019/05/16/apple-iphones-installed-base-hits-193-million-units-in-the-u-s/ https://macdailynews.com/2019/05/16/apple-iphones-installed-... [1] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-share/ https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh... [2] https://www.techspot.com/news/74108-over-80-us-teens-iphone-owners-according-survey.html https://www.techspot.com/news/74108-over-80-us-teens-iphone-...
• gruez 6y ago
  What would this look like? Clearly the entire purpose of being able to buy skins is to provide revenue to the developers/publishers. This is even more apparent now that the game has gone f2p. Therefore, it's not really reasonable to expect that any third party would be able to make and sell skins (like how any third party can make and sell software for windows, for instance). The only alternative would be something like a cd key store model, where you can buy from multiple storefronts. However, I'm not sure how that would benefit the consumer, other than possibly allowing them to use exotic payment methods.
  • dleslie 6y ago
    Back in the day TF and CS and other goldsrc and source games allowed custom sprays: square textures you could decal onto a surface and share with the server. Most of the time it was benign or hilarious, but enough of the time it was pornography or gore that Valve disabled that feature on its managed servers.
  • cwhiz 6y ago
    Epic could allow other studios to create stores within Rocket League so that I could buy from those other studios instead of Epic. I just don’t want to be restricted to what Epic has to offer. I’m actually just taking the piss out of Epic legal arguments that Apple has a monopoly within their own platform.