> just how in blazes do these actually make money?!
I'm guessing they expect to make it back on the occasional whale who can't control their spending on these types of games.
I'm guessing they expect to make it back on the occasional whale who can't control their spending on these types of games.
For example, consider DLCs, a form of IAP. In the Fallout universe, what you get as a DLC would in other franchises be an entire game... should this be made illegal too?
In my opinion, not - but instead it should be made illegal to ship games with bus so serious it requires weeks of waiting for multi-GB patches so they're barely playable...
I think there's no need to worry about or bring that up.
And most politicians either have no clue or don't care about the difference between DLC and IAP, for them it's the same - you pay for "new" content in a computer game. Have enough voters complain to them and they'll cluelessly enact crap as laws.
When you open it you get a randomised, by whatever factors, set of items/powerups/whatevers. It adds a bit of a gambling aspect to it where a user might want to pay again to have another roll of the dice.
That's pretty easy to distinguish