While we are at it, we should also add some technology that makes them non-fungible, how about a blockchain?
That's Hearthstone
Maybe without the tangible aspect even children would realise they are paying $$$ for infinitely reproducible pixels.
IE the death of economics as i understand it.
Highly doubt. Somehow video games are funding themselves selling skins. My understanding is that Gen Z eats them up. I’m a late millenial, and the Skyrim horse armor debacle was a formative experience, as such I have never paid for a skin, and neither have any of my (similarly aged) friends. Z
Horse armor was Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, I pirated it :) I did, however, pay for the Shivering Isles expansion.
I recall playing with knockoff Pokémon trading cards when I was a kid. Same fun, $/$$ instead of $$$.