It’s funny that they would rather handle the EU case differently, rather than give in to the Brussels effect and just show prices everywhere. Just shows how much money this little scam is making them.
This is a huge win against predatory monetization
One more step towards removing shitty in-game currency with awful set bundles and conversion that forces you to spend more than you want to
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You are my world fam
I remember back before I swore off games with microtransactions i was playing one and wanted to buy some in-game currency to support the developer, but it was one of those games with multiple in-game currencies where you buy currency A with real money or sometimes earn small amounts in-game, you buy currency B with currency A at a difficult to calculate exchange rate, and currency C is only purchased with currency B at another difficult to calculate exchange rate, so ultimately it was so heavily obfuscated how many dollars I needed to spend for the small goal I had that I gave up and decided maybe the developer wasn’t worth supporting after all
Virtual currency that you purchase with real money should have been banned a long, long time ago.
Should get rid of crypto while we’re at it.
Why?
Bitcoin alone uses more electricity than the entire country of Norway.
It’s a REALLY REALLY wasteful way to do transactions and is terrible for the environment.
Other than that, it’s fueled the black market and illegal business, it doesn’t really have any real world benefits you can’t get from regular banking for the vast majority of people.
One bitcoin transaction is estimated to use between 50 and 700kwh of electricity. Your average dutch household uses ~2000kwh, so ~10 transactions burn more electricity than a whole household.
And to add to how bad that is, Norway is a small country, but we use really, really much energy per capita, since our energy has always been so cheap due to hydro power and politicians in 1905 going all in on that the benefits of our nature should benefit us all. Only in the last few years, prices have aligned more with the rest of the continent, though that price hike is supported for the many by the government, since the continental standard is so foreignly high for us.
https://coinshares.com/nl-en/insights/research-data/closer-look-environmental-impact-of-bitcoin-mining/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/26/climate-hero-villain-fossil-fuel-frenzy-challenges-norway-green-image https://www.dw.com/en/norways-big-green-lie/audio-74144534
Bitcoin is a far superior way to control your own finances. Transactions are more transparent helping to prevent corruption for one thing. As long as we let the banks control everything, we will never be able to fix most of the problems causing climate damage. If you are still intent on complaining that Bitcoin is evil, it is a necessary evil. It has unfortunately been adopted by the big companies at this stage so they will benefit immensely from it, but taking everything and the alternatives into account, it should actually help the environment in the long run.
Bitcoin doesn’t have the arbitration that banks can offer. Bitcoin also uses ridiculous amounts of energy, so much so that I don’t think the network could even handle taking over the volume that the banks currently handle. The idea that it is somehow a saviour for the environment is laughable.
I don’t think that anyone claimed it is somehow the saviour for then environment. There is a lot more to bitcoin than was possible to reply.
Is this Fortnite? Can you win these points? Otherwise this legislation sort of defeats the purpose of having these points, I think.
That’s not a bad thing, obviously. I just wonder what they will come with next to obfuscate what you’re actually paying.
If you can buy a currency with real money they need to show this. In fortnite its not possible to win these coins (outside of battlepass rewards but these basically just refund your battlepass costs)
If you can buy a currency with real money they need to show this.
I understood this.
No idea why I got a downvote. My point is that these points in games primarily serve to obfuscate the actual price of things. That’s why there’s now legislation to prevent this. From the perspective of the devs (or whoever is responsible here), the points then lose their use, though. Unless they still have some other use.
The second effect is gained from having something cost 800V but only allowing you to buy packs of 1000V.
Then you end up with 200V burning in your pocket that you can’t spend. So you buy another 1000V, spend another 800V and now you’re stuck with 400V.
So instead of spending 7.5 euro for 800V you spent 40 euro for 4000V to get to an even 0V left.
