Report: 82% of US gamers made an in-game purchase in freemium titles in 2023

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BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 5 months ago

Report: 82% of US gamers made an in-game purchase in freemium titles in 2023

Psychodelic@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

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

zigmus64@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

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 · 5 months 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