Hacker News Reader

Is not being able to buy a skin some kind of tragedy? It's a luxury item at any price.

I'm sure there is a kid somewhere crying into his controller because he's been rejected by his online friends because he's using the default skin, but I think he's learning a valuable life lesson.

View on HN

It's a potentially negative financial marker to the success of their business model of selling skins if their skins don't sell, I don't think there's any more sentiment to the statement beyond that

Given that the marginal cost of a skin is zero, and assuming they're not incompetent at evaluating the price elasticity of their sales, $200 is probably where they maximise profit.

The comment I was replying to didn't say they weren't selling, just that they were unaffordable to many people, so I don't really know what you're referring to.

Maybe it's a negative to alienate your customers in this way, or maybe it works financially to make skins just out of reach and 'aspirational' for most gamers.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com