• cybernihongo@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    I actually wanted to mention that and the “trading cards” that literally milk the users out of thin air, but I didn’t find a good place for them in my post. Thanks for mentioning them.

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      2 months ago

      Please explain, how the trading cards, that you get for free, can just ignore or even sell for a few cents, milk anything out of anyone.

      Is it because Steam forces you to complete badges for all your games, otherwise their Death Squad will come to your home?

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        2 months ago

        Before, you just played the game. Now when you play the game, these things fill your “inventory” out of thin air, and you can make transactions with them including buying them (to complete your collection out of FOMO, etc), of which Valve earns a cut out of them, again, out of thin air. Now scale that up to millions of users. Hmmm, it IS milking! Can’t expect any less from the House of Valve.