But I just don’t see how the skins in these games bring joy anywhere near the money charged for them.
The simple answer is that, for a fair amount of people, $30 isn’t a notable purchase, such that it’s not particularly a substitute for anything else they may be interested in doing.
Maybe the people spending money on this trend wealthier?
I mean we’re already looking at a fairly expensive hobby in gaming, which is going to skew towards people with more money in the first place.
And just speaking from my own perspective as solidly middle class, $30 is pretty comfortably within what I can spend without particularly thinking about it. Like yeah, I obviously can’t just throw $30 at everything I see, it adds up over time, but it’s low enough that I don’t particularly have to think about exactly where it will come out of my budget.
And fwiw, I tend to avoid most in-game micro transactions, because I simply don’t value them all that highly. I barely even care about getting free unlocks in most games.
The simple answer is that, for a fair amount of people, $30 isn’t a notable purchase, such that it’s not particularly a substitute for anything else they may be interested in doing.
Is that true? Something like 40% of Americans don’t have $400 on hand. Maybe the people spending money on this trend wealthier?
I feel like you’d have to be pretty wealthy for $30 to be unremarkable.
I mean we’re already looking at a fairly expensive hobby in gaming, which is going to skew towards people with more money in the first place.
And just speaking from my own perspective as solidly middle class, $30 is pretty comfortably within what I can spend without particularly thinking about it. Like yeah, I obviously can’t just throw $30 at everything I see, it adds up over time, but it’s low enough that I don’t particularly have to think about exactly where it will come out of my budget.
And fwiw, I tend to avoid most in-game micro transactions, because I simply don’t value them all that highly. I barely even care about getting free unlocks in most games.